🎭 Billy Woods’ “GOLLIWOG” Got the Whole Rap Game Shook — And the White Boys Mad Mad 😤🔥
By Candy Spencer, Staff Writer for Raps.co
Published: May 10, 2025
🚨 Intro: The Smoke Been Lit — Billy Woods Back to Stir Up Chaos 💨👀
Chile… here we go again. 🎬 This one ain’t for the weak. Billy Woods — the mysterious, Black-hoodie-wearing godfather of lyrical warfare — just dropped GOLLIWOG, and babyyyy, the Hip Hop News and Rap News streets is buzzin’ louder than a block party on Juneteenth. 😤💥
But what’s really makin’ this album go viral like them old VINE videos is who’s mad about it. Yep. The melanin-deficient crowd is pressed, honey. One white rapper already crying in his oat milk latte sayin’ GOLLIWOG is “divisive” and “unfair.” Boo-hoo. 🤧 Meanwhile, Woods said, “Let’s talk about it then.” Period.
🎧 Sonically Sinister: This Ain’t No Vibe, It’s an Experience 💿🧟♂️
GOLLIWOG ain’t just an album. It’s an experience, a horror movie without visuals — a sonic possession if you will. 😈👂
Track one, “Jumpscare,” ain’t just a name. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a violent, cerebral slap to the face. You ain’t vibin’, you bracin’ for impact. The beats are chopped, twisted, scattered like broken glass. Shoutout to them underground producers like Preservation, Child Actor, and El-P who laced this project like it was an exorcism of the rap soul. 🔮🔊
Every track on here got that haunted attic energy — dark, dusty, full of spirits. The joint “STAR87” hits like you runnin’ from your trauma and it just tackled you mid-stride. 😵💫
🧠 Bars So Deep, You Gon’ Need a Lifeguard 🧜🏾♂️📚
You thought this was just about vibes? Pshhh, no baby. Woods out here droppin’ doctoral dissertations in rhyme form. 🎓🎤
He spittin’ about Gaza bombings, CIA torture chambers, class warfare, and how folks in high rises act like Black pain a Netflix documentary. And guess what? It’s all real life. No cap. 🧠🔥
In “Maquiladoras,” you hear that saxophone outro and feel your ancestors holdin’ your hand. In “Pitchforks & Halos,” that soft synth plays while Woods questions God with the voice of somebody who seen too much.
This ain’t rap. This is prophetic scripture in 808s. 📜💥
💅🏾 The Title Got White Folks Shooketh 🐸☕️
Let’s keep it 💯 — GOLLIWOG is a straight-up middle finger to American racism. 🤬🖕
For those that don’t know, “golliwog” is a racist cartoon from way back — like Jim Crow era back. A big-lipped, Black-faced caricature used to mock Black folks. But Woods ain’t bowin’. He reclaimin’. Flippin’ it like real ones do. 💅🏾👊🏾
He said his mama checked him back in the day when he wrote a horror story as a kid with that same name. Fast forward to 2025, and now he ownin’ that trauma, puttin’ it on wax. That’s Black brilliance. That’s therapy through art. 💜🖤
The white rap heads? Oh, they mad MAD. Talkin’ bout “Is this reverse racism?” Sir, if you don’t go cry in a Whole Foods parking lot. 🧃🚫
🤝 A Dream Team of the Underground Gods 🧠💽
Billy ain’t walkin’ through this fire alone. Naw, he brought a rap Avengers squad to go full beast mode on this joint. 🐺🦸🏾♂️
✨ ELUCID, his Armand Hammer partner, slide through with apocalyptic energy.
✨ Bruiser Wolf bring that Detroit jazz-funk steez.
✨ Despot and al.divino bless the mic with uncut street sermons.
✨ Yolanda Watson singin’ like she been to Heaven and came back with receipts. 🎙️👼🏾
And let’s not forget the alchemic hands of Kenny Segal and The Alchemist, lacing this album with beats so dirty they need confession. 🙏🏾🧼
🎤 Why the Rap News Universe Gotta Talk About This Album NOW 🗞️🌍
This ain’t just about music. This is a cultural reset. GOLLIWOG comes at a time where the Hip Hop News scene is saturated with TikTok clout chasers, AI bars, and rappers tryna sell us crypto and teeth-whitening kits. 🦷👎🏾
Woods said “Nah, we takin’ this back to truth-telling.” 💯📢
He rap like he tryna put the whole industry on trial. He ain’t here for Billboard charts. He here to wake y’all up like Black coffee at a funeral. ☕️⚰️
🔥 Social Media Reacts: “This Album Got Me Sleepin’ with the Lights On” 💤🔦
Twitter, Threads, TikTok — everybody talkin’ about GOLLIWOG. Hashtags like #BillyWoodsTruthTeller and #GolliwogGotMeTrippin trendin’ all day. 😱📱
Some fans sayin’:
“This joint scarier than Get Out, and I mean that as a compliment.”
“Bruh, I had to re-listen five times just to catch the demons.”
“White folks mad. Woods must’ve did somethin’ right.”
Even some artists slid into the DMs lowkey like, “Yo, this joint made me rewrite my whole album.” 😳✍🏾
📍 The Tour: Dark Energy Live & In Your Face 💡🎫
Catch Billy Woods in real time, in real places, with tour dates from Philly to Dublin. He hittin’ up sweaty underground venues with speakers louder than police sirens. 💣🚔
If you in ATL, LA, Chi-Town, or NYC, get ready. These shows finna be part ritual, part sermon, part séance. Don’t come unless you ready to feel something. 😤⛪️🕯️
💬 The Final Word: Woods Made the Album White America Wasn’t Ready For — And That’s the Point 🗣️🎯
Let’s say it loud and clear for the folks in the back:
🗣️ Billy Woods made the album y’all too scared to make.
It’s poetic. It’s painful. It’s terrifying. It’s what Rap News and Hip Hop News needed to shake the dust off the culture. 🌪️👣
While some rappers out here rhyming about bottle girls and tax brackets, Woods is whisperin’ about genocide, generational trauma, and what it feel like to live in Black skin in a world that’s still tryin’ to erase it.
So go ahead — stream GOLLIWOG. Then stream it again. Let the discomfort wrap around your neck. Let the beats chase you down dark alleys. Let the lyrics sit in your soul like unpaid debt. 🧾💀
Because this right here? This is art. This is necessary. This is Hip Hop.
💣 Final Bars: “If You Ain’t Scared, You Ain’t Listenin’ Right” 💥🧩
To all the culture vultures shook by GOLLIWOG — maybe it’s time to stop askin’ “why he so dark?” and start askin’ “why y’all so silent when we screamin’?”
Billy Woods ain’t changin’ the game. He remindin’ us what it was always supposed to be: raw, real, revolutionary. 🖤🔥
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