{"id":19594,"date":"2025-05-02T19:29:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/real-bad-man-boldy-james-conversational-pieces-album\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:29:39","slug":"real-bad-man-boldy-james-conversational-pieces-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/real-bad-man-boldy-james-conversational-pieces-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Bad Man &#038; Boldy James \u2013 \u2018Conversational Pieces\u2019 album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LA-based producer Real Bad Man and Detroit rapper Boldy James release their third collaborative album Conversational Pieces, out now via the producer\u2019s Real Bad Man records. The album includes singles, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/boldy-james-real-bad-man-come-back-around-ft-dreamcastmoe-it-factor-ft-el-p\/\"><strong>\u201cCome Back Around\u201d, featuring DC polymath artist dreamcastmoe,<\/strong><\/a><\/span> \u201cIt Factor\u201d featuring El-P. At this point, the duo\u2019s creative chemistry is undeniable, and Conversational Pieces finds the duo exploring new territory sonically through an expanded production palette that Real Bad Man continues to innovate and experiment with. Recorded directly following their second joint album 2022\u2019s Killing Nothing and revisiting it in 2023 after Boldy\u2019s serious car accident, Conversational Pieces is a methodical record that chronicles both periods of time in Boldy and Real Bad Man\u2019s respective lives as musicians, fathers and collaborators. The album\u2019s cover artwork and corresponding artwork for singles are all inspired by Rorschach Inkblot tests, abstract images that force conversation in trying to describe them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/real-bad-man-boldy-james-conversational-pieces-album\/about:blank\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4Ske4zbABzK0mQqbA05jYZ?utm_source=generator\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4Ske4zbABzK0mQqbA05jYZ?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/real-bad-man-boldy-james-conversational-pieces-album\/about:blank\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/conversational-pieces\/1811409522\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/conversational-pieces\/1811409522\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Speaking on his approach to the album with Real Bad Man, Boldy says, \u201cThe music is a reflection of just me growing as a person, me understanding the mechanics more of how the music works and me trying to be more personable with my experiences and trying to balance fatherhood within making this music. This music is a reflection of where we\u2019re at in our brotherhood, where I\u2019m at as a father and where I\u2019m at from a career standpoint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">People think that you\u2019re just this producer [Real Bad Man] that fell off the sky, or you\u2019re just a producer.. that you just make beats. They don\u2019t know that you orchestrate bands and quarterback, like whole musicians and shit like that. So you have a genius to your songs. You broke the barriers of the last two albums we made.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fluidity of styles Real Bad Man has alternated between so far this year emphasizes the approach he takes to working on joint projects with artists. He\u2019s not simply a producer, he\u2019s a creative partner, helping visualize and develop the artistry of each of his contemporaries that he works with, which often end up developing into long term partnerships like with Boldy, Blu and others. This year, he\u2019s breaking down the conventions of him as a producer whose mastered one kind of sound and working with one kind of artist, instead exhibiting his versatility by exploring psychedelic new territory with ZelooperZ on Dear Psilocybin. 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