Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson (Discussion Thread)

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might be early but.... :patrice:

Tecmo Bowl Bo >>> Bo Jackson
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I’ll say this. Song for song the quality is the same to me. This isn’t B-tier materiel at all. My main thing is I’d like this to have another couple tracks and maybe 1-2 more features for it to feel like a true sequel. And it’s a crime that the first two songs are so short.

Tecmo is in that funny spot where it’s clearly longer than an EP but it also feels a little short to be an album.

There’s only one joint on it that I thought sounded kinda lazy (Guilt). But even then it’s growing on me.

It’s an absolute banger of a project though. BoldChemist doesn’t miss
 

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might be early but.... :patrice:

Tecmo Bowl Bo >>> Bo Jackson

Nahh that Icecoldebishop nikka verse on Hot Water Tank automatically makes that statement null and void. Totally disqualifies it but I like this a lot. I don't know something about how the tracks were sequenced on Bo Jackson were just perfect IMO. I gotta sit with this more but it's just not giving me the same feeling.
 

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Nahh that Icecoldebishop nikka verse on Hot Water Tank automatically makes that statement null and void. Totally disqualifies it but I like this a lot. I don't know something about how the tracks were sequenced on Bo Jackson were just perfect IMO. I gotta sit with this more but it's just not giving me the same feeling.
I was expecting to hate that Bishop verse but I didn’t. He kind of reminded me of Danny Brown. I’m a huge tar heel fan and liked the Rasheed Wallace bar.

I liked icecoldBishop on that song more than I liked Lonnie Bands on this song. I appreciate Boldy giving shine to cats from his city but neither of the features jumped out at me.

 
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I was expecting to hate that Bishop verse but I didn’t. He kind of reminded me of Danny Brown. I’m a huge tar heel fan and liked the Rasheed Wallace bar.

I liked ice cold Bishop on that song more than I liked Lonnie Bands on this song


Maybe if his verse wasn't first (like Danny's on Gibb's track High which was second) I'd like it more but that beat is beautiful and the contrast with his voice and delivery just annoyed me. I might just cut him off completely on my version. The Rasheed Wallace trailblazer line was slick but I gotta sit with it more.
 

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Maybe if his verse wasn't first (like Danny's on Gibb's track High which was second) I'd like it more but that beat is beautiful and the contrast with his voice and delivery just annoyed me. I might just cut him off completely on my version. The Rasheed Wallace trailblazer line was slick but I gotta sit with it more.
If you do edit the verse out can you fire me a copy?

That beat kinda reminds me of the x-files
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don’t forget Francois breh

Those 2 songs might be in my top 10 BoldChemist joints ever. Those are both incredible incredible songs.
Now that's how you end an album/EP. One of his best and most personal tracks.
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Now that's how you end an album/EP. One of his best and most personal tracks.
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I really really didn't want to say anything about the project until it drops everywhere tomorrow night, but fukk it.

Given how quick they announced it and dropped it, I honestly wasn't expecting that much. I thought it might be like Boldface (still my least favorite of their 5 projects so far) but I was blown away by the quality of each song. I can tell as dope as these are, that they would've made Bo Jackson too bloated and/or not fit on there.

That leads to my only real criticism, which is it feels just a little bit incomplete if they want to label it a true album. I almost wish they'd added another 2-3 songs and 1 or 2 bigger name features, and done a larger roll out and made a bigger deal out of it. I'm interested to see how they market it in the press after it drops, and hear the story behind it.

I listened to it in the car at night, and it's getting cold here. It hit different for sure. I really fukk with this. It's another great addition to their catalogue. If you'd told me after M1CS that these 2 would take 6-7 years off and then drop another 45 songs together in just 2 calendar years (and that it would be some of the best material of either guy) I would not have believed you.
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@Monoblock I meant to add that Boldy can rap over any damn thing and make it sound effortless. Guilt is such a strange joint. Boldy doesn't rap to the tempo of the production at all, but still finds a wild pocket and stays in it. Between how he rapped on Moth Flame, Speed Trap, 300 Fences, Guilt, the list goes on...at this point he has so many flows and cadences. Besides the actual tone of his voice he's a crazy dynamic emcee. It's been really fun to hear how much he's improved in such a short time.

I can even hear a huge difference in his skill level from Price of Tea to Bo Jackson and Tecmo Bo. :picard:
 
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It definitely doesn't fit the vibe. I think it sounds like Gibbs used it as an opportunity to black out with an aggressive verse, and Boldy and Spitta had more of a cool and calm approach to the track. It felt like Gibbs didn't really care about matching what they were doing and just wanted to kind of take over the track. But I'm also not half mad at it because I'm used to Gibbs doing that a lot at this point. This is hardly the first time he's done that now.

In my Opinion he really took over that shyt, his verse hard af

I dont think he was throwing shade at Spitta, he just goofing around like he did on that TLC - waterfalls skit on bandana lol
 
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