synffBoldy James, the Detroit rapper with a gravelly baritone and unflinching monotone, crafts vivid dispatches from street life and drug trade over sparse, boom-bap loops and lo-fi jazz flourishes.
His sound echoes the gritty realism of Mobb Deep and Earl Sweatshirt while nodding to the psychedelic…
17 roots·9 legacies
Roots trace the artists and scenes that shaped Boldy James; legacies follow the artists carrying those ideas forward. The names below are the most-mentioned direct connections in the graph.
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Nicholas Craven, Alchemist, Dilla, Eminem + 13 more
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