Paul Thompson originally hails from Minnesnowta.  “Plus you’re getting old, your raps are exhausted/Stop it, everybody knows that you’ve lost it” –Slug, 2005 Slug should feel validated: he was right and you were wrong. After 2005’s You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having, Minneapolis’ favorite drifter shed the sad clown introspection for stories about […]

Paul Thompson was nearly cast in the lead of Memento. Halfway through Stranger Than Fiction’s “Smiling Faces”, Kevin Gates can’t sleep. His past brings on panic attacks, dooming his relationship with the concerned girl lying next to him. “Every bitch I’m with find out I ain’t shit after three weeks of just fucking with me,” he […]

 Paul Thompson goes hard like Old Testament God. Billy woods never shows his face. Press photos, videos, even Instagram posts with fans—he’s always hiding in the shadows. Understandably, it can be easy to forget that the enigmatic rapper has been a fixture in underground hip-hop for more than fifteen years now. Woods has not only […]