Boldy James & The Alchemist

The Price of Tea in China

I’m finally listening to all of Boldy James’s albums from 2020, so I started here. And this is actually pretty good.

This is one of the better boom-bap projects I’ve heard this year. It stands out, and I think it mainly does that because of The Alchemist, who brought some solid production, Boldy James himself, and the features. The production is lavish and sounds really good, but I probably have heard better from Alchemist this year. And while I do think Boldy comes through ... read more

If you're in love with boom bap you're going to love this album, because it's a pretty solid project but objectively I think that if you know the old works of The Alchemist and Boldy James (even if there are few other choices for the rapper) you'll see that they're not up to what they proved before. Especially if we compare it to My 1st Chemistry Set, their first collaborative album together.

On the whole, I don't think that all the beats of The Alchemist are relevant and immersive enough, as ... read more

Don’t like this one as much as his second release of the year “Manger On McNichols”. If I’m honest i wasn’t really feeling this project at the start of the year. It grew on me though, and i love it now. The production by Alchemist is great as always and Boldy just rhymes on these beats with ease. Also the features are nothing to sneeze at: Evidence, Freddy Gibbs, Vince Staples and Benny The Butcher all come trough with great bars.

Favourite tracks: Grey October, ... read more

The best part about this record are when the nice beats are serenaded from the voices of better rappers then Boldy James.