ChirpsBoldy James · 2013

pitchfork

“Boldy James usually-- and understandably-- gets tagged as coke rap, but reducing what the Detroit rapper does to a tidy buzz-phrase feels like shortchanging him. His music is a tangled knot of references to characters, locales, and events that manage to be evocative through their hyper-specificity. It's more reality rap than coke rap, a grim look at drug dealing that doesn't gloss over its decided”