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The rules will have to change upon further dissection of Detroit rapper Boldy James's treatise "The Price Of Tea In China." A connection of this caliber with legendary cheat code The Alchemist is Gibbs and Madlib, RetcH and Thelonious Martin immediate double take nice. And the joint "Grey October" with Evidence gave me my strongest link to the music.
Boldy James's all-too calculated track wears "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart" energy on its sleeve. Alchemist's stealthy production is like the final iced cufflink to complete the emotionless suits tailored to Boldy and Evidence's survival in the world. A portly bassline is affixed to the duration of "Grey October" and on it hangs touches of winding guitar bends, slides, a chord progression, hammer-on/pull-offs and a beguiling trill within a looping riff that has a melodic face without melody yet is harmonic to the low-end. The beat sounds so easy it's too complicated. And Boldy James raps on it as if he's the only one who can follow the bread crumbs Alc's production left.
The "Dinavolino" artist is stock-still in his jawbone cadence. The flow of the storytelling is an open faucet of destitute metaphors, witty punchlines, references to previous lines and a consistent draw on the rhyme that reanimate the panels of a now desuetude lifestyle just so we can see what it was truly like to wake up and have to survive. Boldy's verse sounds like an off-top reflection while Evidence spits something that was carved rather than written.
Evidence operates in alliteration, plethoric punchlines and metaphors that approach the song with a newfound status resembling that of deity or something close to it. His flow, like Boldy, holds a battle rap-like pause to make the lines hit in a denser manor. He wraps "Grey October" like the war will be won because your battles are inconsequential. And the only way to start winning your own is to get on the chess board and make moves -- this song is a start in the right direction.
Listen to "Grey October" & "The Price Of Tea In China" in full below.
Lead Photo Cred: spotify.com
The rules will have to change upon further dissection of Detroit rapper Boldy James's treatise "The Price Of Tea In China." A connection of this caliber with legendary cheat code The Alchemist is Gibbs and Madlib, RetcH and Thelonious Martin immediate double take nice. And the joint "Grey October" with Evidence gave me my strongest link to the music.
Boldy James's all-too calculated track wears "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart" energy on its sleeve. Alchemist's stealthy production is like the final iced cufflink to complete the emotionless suits tailored to Boldy and Evidence's survival in the world. A portly bassline is affixed to the duration of "Grey October" and on it hangs touches of winding guitar bends, slides, a chord progression, hammer-on/pull-offs and a beguiling trill within a looping riff that has a melodic face without melody yet is harmonic to the low-end. The beat sounds so easy it's too complicated. And Boldy James raps on it as if he's the only one who can follow the bread crumbs Alc's production left.
The "Dinavolino" artist is stock-still in his jawbone cadence. The flow of the storytelling is an open faucet of destitute metaphors, witty punchlines, references to previous lines and a consistent draw on the rhyme that reanimate the panels of a now desuetude lifestyle just so we can see what it was truly like to wake up and have to survive. Boldy's verse sounds like an off-top reflection while Evidence spits something that was carved rather than written.
Evidence operates in alliteration, plethoric punchlines and metaphors that approach the song with a newfound status resembling that of deity or something close to it. His flow, like Boldy, holds a battle rap-like pause to make the lines hit in a denser manor. He wraps "Grey October" like the war will be won because your battles are inconsequential. And the only way to start winning your own is to get on the chess board and make moves -- this song is a start in the right direction.
Listen to "Grey October" & "The Price Of Tea In China" in full below.
Lead Photo Cred: spotify.com
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