The arc of the golliwog almost comically aligns with billy woods’ fascination with world history. But when she failed to trademark the golliwog, enterprising Brits turned it into a global icon and multiple racial slurs. The woods zingers practically write themselves. But GOLLIWOG, the Brooklyn rapper’s first solo-billed album since Terror Management in 2019, isn’t the Backwoodz Bamboozled. Although many of the songs are built around jagged samples, rhythm is often generated by the interplay between woods’ winding flows and the various layers of instruments and vocal loops.