Hiding Places is a collaborative studio album by Brooklyn rapper Billy Woods and Los Angeles record producer Kenny Segal.[1] It was released by Backwoodz Studioz on March 29, 2019.[2] It features guest appearances from Mothermary, Elucid, and Self Jupiter.[3] The album cover is a photograph of the William Livingstone House in Detroit.[4]
Woods has described the album's opening track, "Spongebob", as the first song on which he and Segal fully understood each other's visions for the album. The song was originally titled "Monotheism", but Woods retitled it after writing the chorus, which describes a situation as "underwater"—alluding to the term for an asset with negative equity.[6]
Marcus J. Moore of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.7 out of 10, writing: "In a way, Hiding Places plays like a complement to early-00s underground New York rap, and sits alongside early Definitive Jux records."[8] He added: "There's an edginess to the record, similar to Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein, a feeling that the rapper will either self-destruct or nuke everything in his wake."[8] Tom Breihan of Stereogum wrote: "The album works as a sweaty, jangled rumination on stress and fear and hopelessness and grim acceptance."[9] Paul Thompson of The Fader called it "[Billy Woods'] leanest and his best [record]".[7]
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