Billy Woods still won’t show his face. Even as one of the forerunners of Brooklyn’s Indieground, he remains cloaked in mystery and blunt smoke. In the video for “Keloid” from his most recent LP Known Unknowns, Woods is a stark silhouette against an antiseptic backdrop. In a world that gets scarier with greater exposure to the evils at play behind the curtains, we all wish we had a “clean room” to escape the radioactivity and radio activity. For a stream-of-consciousness MC whose consciousness is more finely attuned than most could hope for, I imagine Woods’ brain is his clean room. Let’s hope he keeps scribbling away. We may “get no answers,” but at least the questions are less haunting when we face them together. – BrokeMC
