Boldy James - Surf & Turf
"Guns in my shorts, blood was the sport"
Album: The Price of Tea in China [2nd album]
Genre: Hip Hop, Gangster Rap, Midwest Hip Hop
Release: February 7th 2020
Length: 3:43
Producer: The Alchemist
Vocalist: Boldy James [age 37] & Vince Staples
Label: ALC Records
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Spotify: Over 6 million
YouTube Music: Over 1.5 million
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- 'Surf & Turf' is a dark, street track that sounds like cruising in a car after midnight. It's haunting and ethereal, as if the ghosts of drug dealers past linger on the corners. This is their world and the music invites you in. It's a place of drugs, smoke, guns, absent fathers and brushes with the law. It's quiet before it inevitably pops off and the culprits disappear into the night, as if they're enveloped by the darkness itself. Only the dead remain. Some of the shooters are never seen again, victims of long held grudges or short tempers blown over nothing.
It's important to remember that a primitive metre of justice had been handed out, because the streets rule themselves, despite the naysaying sirens that punctuate the quiet. It's a strange and unusual world upstanding citizens happily avoid. Tracks like 'Surf & Turf' offer the listener a tantalising glimpse of forbidden things best not seen, and therein lies the appeal. - A selection of beats made by Alchemist.
- Curren$y & Freddie Gibbs - Fetti
- Dilated Peoples - Back Again
- Dilated Peoples - Worst Comes to Worst
- Evidence - Chase the Clouds Away
- Havoc - Hear Me Now
- Jadakiss - Feel Me
- Jay Electronica - The Neverending Story
- Kendrick Lamar - FEAR
- Pharoahe Monch - No Mercy
- Prodigy - Give em Hell
- Prodigy - Veteran's Memorial
- Roc Marciano - Flash Gordon
- Royce da 59 - I'm the King
- As of 2024, Boldy James and Alchemist have made four albums together, as well as an EP.
- Alchemist is from Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. The area has an average house price of $3.4m [2024].
- Alchemist is the prodigy of the Cypress Hill beatmaker DJ Muggs.
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