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Fair Exchange No Robbery

Nicholas Craven & Boldy James - Town & Country

Nicholas Craven & Boldy James - Stuck in Traffic

Could Be Worse

Flag on the Play

Marcielago

Richard Gear

Prisoner of Circumstance

The Love We Gave

THEODORE & ANDRE

MORRISSEY

DON’T BE GONE

The Bricktionary

Rabies (feat. Benny The Butcher)

Ahead Of My Time

Yo, girl I wanna know you now, I wanna hold you down,
GB knows you hold the crown, can’t fold around.
Girl, you Georgia Brown, worth the pound,
Girl, you a queen, only right that you draped in Celine.

Manifested outta my dreams, creme de la creme,
More beautiful than Olivia Dean, you my deck of queens.
Let me proceed, with this horoscope reading,
You hold the crown, it’s misleading but you leading.

What a gorgeous proceeding, wedding on the ocean,
Don’t play with my emotions, you know that you chosen.
I shot my shot like DeRozan,
Played you director's cut, you called me Christopher Nolan.

Body tight, body right, you’re the one that I want,
You pulled up in Celine, can't lie I was stunned.
I was drunk in love, was punked—think not,
Puncher, some say it was luck, gorgeous beauty, one I struck.

And not in that way, please don’t be silly,
Put her in Celine when it chilly, the view side hilly.
They calling me Billy, I’m the GOAT,
So many hits that I penned, GB wrote.

‘Oi, GBengs, who’s that queen that you roped?’
‘I see you G, she’s an Olivia Pope.’
Pree the coat, peep the Pelle, only right that she scoped,
Scooped her up, she good in the Vogue, brought her back from Woolwich road.

Yo, girl I wanna know you now, I wanna hold you down,
GB knows you hold the crown, can’t fold around.
Girl, you Georgia Brown, worth the pound,
Girl, you a queen, only right that you draped in Celine.

Manifested outta my dreams, creme de la creme,
More beautiful than Olivia Dean, you my deck of queens.
Let me proceed, with this horoscope reading,
You hold the crown, it’s misleading but you leading.

New season, a new reason, just to treasure my girl,
She hits them notes like Adele, gorgeous I fell.
Straight for beauty, she my cutie, she my baby,
My lady, we take trips in Mercedes, but can’t lie, she drive me crazy.

‘Oi GBengs, what was you doing last weekend?’
I was in the bedroom, I can’t pretend.
It’s a weird flex, couldn’t find the latex,
But can’t lie, I scared a late text.

One from my baby, saying that I’m late text,
But girl, I wanna know you now, I wanna hold you down,
GB knows you hold the crown, can’t fold around.
Girl, you Georgia Brown, worth the pound.

Yeah, crowned in Celine, you wear it like you mean,
Together we create the perfect scene.
So let’s dream, baby, let’s scheme,
Girl, you the queen, you know what I mean.

Blondie [Demo]

Preferring a literate style over simple hooks or radio-friendly fodder, Detroit rapper Boldy James delivers sharply focused rhymes that describe drug deals in acute detail. Some of his best-received work, including 2013's My 1st Chemistry Set and 2020's The Price of Tea in China, has been produced by the Alchemist, whose minimalist production befits Boldy's cold, unflinching narratives. 2020's Manger on McNichols, a jazzy collaboration with Sterling Toles, represented a new height in his artistry. He followed it with the Griselda-issued The Versace Tape and further Alchemist productions such as 2021's Super Tecmo Bo. A prolific 2022 included efforts with Nicholas Craven (Fair Exchange No Robbery) and Cuns (Be That as It May). The Conductor Williams-produced Across the Tracks appeared in 2024, followed by The Bricktionary and 2025's Permanent Ink.

Born in Atlanta but raised in Detroit, where his parents were originally from, James Clay Jones III established Boldy James as his stage name in tribute to his friend Boldy, who was murdered. The cousin of rapper/producer and Cool Kids member Chuck Inglish, Boldy made appearances on Cool Kids mixtapes before releasing his first tape, Trapper's Alley: Pros and Cons, in 2011. Consignment: Favor for a Favor, The Redi-Rock Mixtape followed in 2012, and the EP Grand Quarters preceded My 1st Chemistry Set, Boldy's Alchemist-produced studio debut, issued by Decon in 2013.

Boldy became one of the first signees to Nas' Mass Appeal Records in 2014. His output for the label included the 2015 mixtape Trapper's Alley 2: Risk vs. Reward, 2017 EP The Art of Rock Climbing, and 2017 mixtape House of Blues. He went independent with 2018's Live at the Roxy (Tabs & Caps), then linked back up with the Alchemist for 2019's Boldface EP and 2020's full-length The Price of Tea in China. Soon after the album was released, Buffalo-based Griselda Records announced that they had signed Boldy. Following Manger on McNichols, a jazzy and long-gestating LP made with producer Sterling Toles, Boldy released his Griselda debut, The Versace Tape. He capped off an especially prolific period with Real Bad Boldy, his fourth full-length project of 2020, self-issued by album collaborator Real Bad Man. 

Two albums with the Alchemist, Bo Jackson and Super Tecmo Bo, were released in 2021. Numerous Boldy albums appeared in 2022: Killing Nothing, a second effort with Real Bad Man, appeared in May, followed in September by Fair Exchange No Robbery, with Nicholas Craven. Mr. Ten08, with Futurewave, was released in November, and the year closed with a collaboration with Cuns titled Be That as It May. In 2023, Boldy released Indiana Jones with RichGains, followed by the EP Prisoner of Circumstance with ChanHays. Penalty of Leadership, another collaboration with Craven, appeared in early 2024. Also that January, he worked with Conductor Williams, producing the full-length Across the Tracks. He returned in November with The Bricktionary, and he kicked off 2025 with Permanent Ink, albums that underlined his knack for marrying moody grooves with indelible lyrical portraits of urban life. ~ Paul Simpson & David Jeffries, Rovi

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