Brass T-Shirt — Billy Woods & Moor Mother

Description

Two of underground hip-hop’s most uncompromising voices. One album that demands you listen with your eyes closed.

In 2020, billy woods and Moor Mother gave us Brass — a dense, free-jazz-inflected meditation on Black liberation, diaspora, and the rotting empire. Woods brought his nicotine-stained baritone and biblical-meets-Pan-African word density straight off Armand Hammer’s blood-stained tape. Moor Mother arrived from Irreversible Entanglements and her own poetry — the Philly artist whose voice could cut glass.

Released August 28, 2020 on Backwoodz Studioz over production from Willie Green, ELUCID, Steel Tipped Dove, and Olu of Earthgang, Brass is the album that proved hip-hop’s bleeding edge wasn’t in Atlanta or Brooklyn — it was being built by Philadelphia poets and DC-born refugees with no interest in radio. Pitchfork Best New Music. Bandcamp Daily Year-End. “Furies,” “Bork,” “Sankofa,” “Maroons” — required listening if you call yourself a head.

This shirt honors the record that made underground rap feel limitless again. The collab that connected the dots between Sun Ra, Moor Mother’s poetry chapbooks, ELUCID’s basslines, and the cassette tradition Backwoodz keeps alive.

Product Details

• Premium Bella Canvas 3001 – 100% combed and ring-spun cotton
• Lightweight (4.2 oz) with retail fit
• Pre-shrunk fabric
• Side-seamed construction
• Tear-away label for comfort
• Available in Black, Navy, and Chocolate

For the heads who know Backwoodz is the label of the decade. For the ones who quote “Sankofa” like scripture. For the people who understand experimental hip-hop is hip-hop. For you.