Gunn, what's coming up for you and Griselda? - Westside Gunn. Next Friday is Armani Caesar's project. Everybody else is big on video games—I haven't played a video game in 15 years. Boldy James: Yeah. Here's my email, and the stuff that I've heard already was fire."

I just finished, of course, The Versace Tape.

What are you working on? What I love about Sun Ra is the fact that he was thinking futuristically. I have a documentary that shows me making Pray for Paris, which is incredible. Website powered by Foundation, New mom Nicki Minaj asks Drake for a play date on remix of Sada Baby's viral TikTok track, Lord Gulley drops ode to dirty Detroit rap, a record four years in the making, Detroit rapper Trick Trick is pledging $5k toward unsolved murder of 4-year-old boy, Why jazz trumpeter Allen Dennard marches with Detroit Will Breathe, The White Stripes revisit brother-and-sister shtick for new greatest hits comp, How to stay sane during the coronavirus pandemic, One Fair Wage campaign launches emergency fund to support tipped service workers, From 'Outbreak' to 'Contagion,' virus-themed movies trend on streaming channels, Just in time for his birthday: 9 things you didn't know about Bob Seger, On this day, Aretha Franklin recorded 'Respect' — and the world was never the same, Tiny Jag pulls out of AfroFuture Fest after learning white people would be charged a different price to attend, Drive-in concerts are coming to Pontiac thanks to the Crofoot, Scottish woman awarded Guinness World Record for Eminem tattoos — and we must stan, Jack White is last-minute 'SNL' musical guest after Morgan Wallen booted for partying without a mask, Why Marianne Williamson won’t let the haters stop her from casting her strange magic in America, Make sure your vote counts with our Michigan voter guide, It's A Life Worth Living, an inspirational film and evening presented by Grace Gospel Fellowship and Grace Center of Hope, Rocky Horror Picture Show Viewing Experience, Shield's Restaurant Bar Pizzeria of Southfield. I'm a emcee. I don't know about how other n****s go about it, but me personally, it got to be true to me and the n****s I grew up with, the n****s I lost, the n****s that's upstate still rooting for a n***a because they know I kept it real. Jay Versace: No. If I talk about some money I don't got, or a piece of jewelry or a car, they're going to give you the cold shoulder. I don't take nothing serious. And then a week after that, Conway drops From King to a God. I know most of my fans can't relate to me at all—the music just sounds good. - Westside Gunn. Westside Gunn: Oh, man. Boldy James' first project for Griselda, The Versace Tape, has just arrived and, as its name implies, it's entirely produced by Jay Versace. Lil Durk. It was just, we're just going to do us. I always said I was going to end it this year. })(); Subscribe now to get the latest news delivered right to your inbox. “Imagine the prettiest china plate with coke residue stuck on it; that’s Boldy James.”. It was a great surprise. The 10-track release also features now labelmates Westside Gunn and Keisha Plum, as well as El Camino and Tiona Deniece, and is also executively produced by Westside Gunn himself. And I guess I do that for me and those people that can. Can you see yourself ever returning to comedy? Jay Versace: Actually, let me look at the message. We're shopping that right now. But less is more in a real n***a's world, you feel me? I've learned to be vulnerable and let him take control because he really is a genius. It just has the classic hip hop sound, but raw. I don't like shooting people down, because you never know. Too often, a lot of rappers try to make a futuristic-sounding beat or a project that sounds like something crazy. And everything he sent me, I fell in love with it. I said, "Yo. As you get further away from the street level stuff you're talking about, is it harder to write about it? I could argue with anybody that I probably have a top three ear in hip-hop. Jay, what did you learn from Gunn during the process of making the record? if(document.getElementById('commitchange-script')) return; Westside Gunn: I don't want to rap at all, man. Speaking of art: After COVID, what's the first museum you're going to? And here we are. I have a solid team in my corner to create and build with; in life and in my creative workspace” Boldy said of the new project and agreement. The one that do the videos?" Shawn is an Associate Editor at Complex and the writer and reporter of Infamous: The Tekashi 6ix9ine Story, a Complex/Spotify podcast about the controversial rapper.

We are living testimonies of people who survived it. Boldy James' first project for Griselda, The Versace Tape, has just arrived and, as its name implies, it's entirely produced by Jay Versace. Meaning, you know how everybody always stresses how they live their music? Jay Versace: Whatever museum he just said, that's where I'm going. I know you're in the studio right now. Of course, my whole rollout and layout, how I was just going to do everything for Pray for Paris, I couldn't do, because of COVID. Westside Gunn: It was in my DM, and he was like, "Can I send you some beats?" Then a week after that, YN Billy dropping his shit for the streets.

So you know me: I'm a guy that actually goes and does the homework. Jay Versace: For some people, they could say yes. And when I'm with Al or Gunn, they usually have me so far out of my element that I've got a clearer head to be able to reflect on certain things that I feel are necessary to express, to try to make the fans relate as much as possible. I just reached back out like, "Yo, let's do it," and he sent me some heat. I love wrestling. He did timeless classic stuff that people are going to study for the next 30-something years. Different moods set the tone for the projects. Rapping got me here, but I don't even really want to do it, man. Snoop Dogg And Styles P Out Now.

He was like, "The comedian? I move kind of different. Everybody knew, but I didn't." "We are living testimonies of people who survived it." That's what makes n****s like me and Gunn and Conway and Benny special.

Whether it's a one-time acknowledgement of this article or an ongoing pledge, your support helps keep Detroit's true free press free. He was like, 'The comedian? Just enjoying the weather. So much of your music depends on stories and memories. I got some records in the stash that I previously worked on with Gunn, and Harry Fraud sent me a couple of tracks. I don't have a rhyme book. It gives you that early '90s feel, but it's 2020. Do the right thing! Jay, how would you describe the sound, as someone coming to it from the outside? I've tapped into a lot of jazz with the boom bap, with the drums. He reminds me of Gunn a little bit. And then he just pieces the rest of it together and makes it great. I was originally wanting to focus on artistic stuff, photography. I'm out here on real time, really raising my kids, really surviving the same shit that a lot of n****s lose to on the daily.

Sun Ra really reminds me of myself and the stuff that I do. I'm going straight to Paris, man. But for me, I feel like I'm trying to completely detach from comedy, because I was never really supposed to do comedy for a long time in the first place. If we would have had to go to motherfucking Acapulco to get the shit done, that's what would have happened. That was one of the first songs I ever made. Whatever the process calls for, then that's the necessary steps we're going to take to get it done. So I learned how to be comfortable within the confinements of my truth. Them being from Buffalo and me being from Detroit, everybody knows what those two cities is about when it comes to gun violence and us surviving real situations in the same circumstances that swallow a lot of n****s whole. I stopped rapping after that. I'm retiring this year, man. This was always me. Jay, do you see any parallels between writing and performing comedy and making music? “Boldy is the Slick Rick of today, very vivid storytelling for the street guy,” Westside Gunn says. Art is my life. I don't have to rap to do that. at https://t.co/GvHx0W0xhy #GxFR pic.twitter.com/MVAkDTZYse, Tags: Boldy James, Griselda Records, Detroit rapper, Detroit rap, Image. Boldy James: I went to Atlanta, and then me and Gunn jumped on the road and we went to Houston. If I say something that's cap, then n****s are going to call me out on it. What was it like creating while being in a different place every day? He sent me those beats, and that album was done the next morning. New Sa-Roc Album ‘The Sharecropper’s Daughter’ Out Now on Rhymesayers Ent. Where were you when you were writing The Versace Tape? How did it affect your writing to be constantly on the go like that? I was going to take like 10 hood dudes and make a hood movie while in Paris. - Jay Versace. Not long after the announcement that Boldy James would be joining the Griselda roster, Westside Gunn revealed a more left-field collaboration: Vine comedian-turned-producer Jay Versace provided a beat on Gunn's Pray for Paris project, for the song "Versace."

That's just what I sent him, and he liked it. Westside Gunn: I'd say raw. I can't let that slip by. Gunn's vision of mixing dope talk with art and high fashion—James describes it thusly: "It's like we cooked a hundred bricks in the art gallery"—seemed to be a perfect fit with James' nuanced street stories.

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