Hello everyone, it's the first day of September and we have a gift for you; a new video from Fatboi Sharif and Steel Tipped Dove. “Dimethyltryptamine” is one of the best songs on their critically acclaimed album Decay, and the new visuals are an invitation to go day-tripping with Sharif and Dove. Also, it is Bandcamp Friday and we have uploaded the beautiful orange vinyl we are pressing up for Plus One, the new album from Fielded. This project is executive produced by billy woods and features contributions from ELUCID, Wolf Weston (Saint Mela), Kenny Segal, Felicia Douglass, They Hate Change, Fat Tony, Child...

May 5, 2023 It’s D-Day friends and neighbors, Maps, the new album from billy woods & Kenny Segal has landed! We are premiering the first video off the album here, and we also want to give our subscribers the early heads up that we have made a few additional quantities of the deluxe vinyl available on the Backwoodz site. These are the last copies that we have, so grab them while you can.   billy woods & Kenny Segal"Soft Landing" Our first visuals off Maps arrive courtesy of a partnership with directors Tim and Henry Nelson. “Soft Landing” finds woods...

April 12, 2023 We are living in a great time for independent hip-hop and the underground is teeming with creativity and talent, so it’s no small thing to say that we believe Kenny Segal and billy woods are two of the most unique and essential artists working in the genre right now. When you run a record label, every album you drop is the culmination of so much work, anticipation, and creative energy that its release into the world is both immensely gratifying and fraught. That rings especially true now, as we begin to unveil Maps, the new album from...

By now most of you know there is a new billy woods/Kenny Segal album somewhere on the horizon. Some of you are expecting an announcement, tracklist, pre-orders, maybe some music, and all that is coming, but this is not that newsletter. This newsletter has the stuff you weren’t expecting and didn’t know you needed, to whit; a Backwoodz tape of new music from some of our flagship artists alongside cats that are new to the roster. A taste of things to come. In addition to that we have a lot of artists who are hitting the road in the coming...