Boldy James & The Alchemist - The Price of Tea in China (Discussion Thread)

[T.H.E. Goat]

They don’t clear 90% of it man. Sometimes they have a personal relationship with people they sample and get permission, but they don’t do the paperwork sample clearance game.

@mr x is right in that you have to, legally. But if you’re fine to skirt the law it’s rare that you run into trouble when you’re just selling a few hundred pieces of vinyl, tops. Most people if they find out they’ve been sampled on these type of projects don’t even bother pursuing it. The costs of litigating it are less than what they’d even get on an album like Tea in China.

 

[Ironman]

I need a Grey October vid and Scrape the bowl Intro is Carruth

 

[Black Ball]

Never listened to a Boldy James project, but I heard some verses. Plus if Al gonna do a whole project with you, then there's gotta be something special about you.

This shyt so hard. Dude got a dope voice and presence. Beats are thorough. Just a dope ass project I can keep playing front to back nonstop.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I need a Grey October vid and Scrape the bowl Intro is Carruth

Grey October is a sleeper. It’s a good way to segway from a hard hitting run of Scrape, Pinto, Slow Roll, and Snort into the final run of the album. It’s like a little moment to pause and take a breath.

A couple weeks later and I’m very impressed at the sequencing on here. I still very much prefer the production on M1CS, but Boldy’s rapping is so much better than it was back then.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I been wondering about this for a minute now, but are artists like Griselda, Roc, and Alc still having to deal with sample clearances when dropping albums on vinyl?

If you're selling it you always gotta clear it. Doesn't matter what format.

I forgot to mention one other thing when I responded to you guys. A really good way to tell if something has had all of the samples cleared properly is to simply check the liner notes or look on Wikipedia. If you can see the samples listed as soon as it’s released then they had it cleared. The Bandana album from 2019 is a good example of this.

Bandana had all of the samples listed immediately and within a couple of days there were videos on YouTube playing all of the samples consecutively for the whole album

That’s the most recent indie release I can think of that’s filled with samples where everything was cleared officially.

 

[Piff Perkins]

They don’t clear 90% of it man. Sometimes they have a personal relationship with people they sample and get permission, but they don’t do the paperwork sample clearance game.

@mr x is right in that you have to, legally. But if you’re fine to skirt the law it’s rare that you run into trouble when you’re just selling a few hundred pieces of vinyl, tops. Most people if they find out they’ve been sampled on these type of projects don’t even bother pursuing it. The costs of litigating it are less than what they’d even get on an album like Tea in China.

That's why things switch up when Alch gets a major label placement. Major labels have to clear everything. I remember Alch gave up all his publishing to get Break The Bank on Oxymoron, just to get the song on the album.

 

[Ribbs]

This album right here. I fux with it.

 

[Danie84]

Shaking the Bag like I Landscape

...ALC keeping the pace up thru Run-Ins production, tho

Ran into my Ex now she's giving me the Run-Around

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Add this album to the Griselda discography brehs

Edit. I may have jumped the gun and fell for a Clickbait article

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

Add this album to the Griselda discography brehs

Boldy James Is Joining Griselda

 

[NigerianDonDada]

album been on repeat for a week

 

[TheDarceKnight]

@TEKBEATZ @SoulController ya'll know name of the whistle sounding musical instrument sampled on Giant Slide?

shyt's eerie as fukk.

 

[SoulController]

@TEKBEATZ @SoulController ya'll know name of the whistle sounding musical instrument sampled on Giant Slide?

shyt's eerie as fukk.

maaaan hell no lol. who knows where he gets most of this

this is growing on me, Boldy just signed to GxFR too things bout to pop for him

 

[Dolo]

Love the beats on this

 

[Alvin]

I lied @TheDarceKnight that song with benny is hard as y'all were saying, that video did it for me. @savoutch