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Goodman, Sada Baby", "articleBody": "Boldy James has another album out, and this one runs just 34 minutes. Bentayga Genesis, a 12-track project with producer Roger L. Goodman, arrived on November 13, 2026, through Royal House Records, according to the album’s official streaming listings. The Detroit rapper, born James Clay Jones III, has made a habit of pairing with a single producer for a whole record, and Goodman handles every beat here. It is the pair’s second full-length on Royal House after Permanent Ink in January 2025. Who shows up on Bentayga Genesis The streaming tracklist puts Boldy alone on most of the album, with guests clustered in the middle. In running order, the features are: Payroll Giovanni on track 3, “Only You” Dave Hill on track 4, “Doberman Pincerman” G.T. on track 5, “New Boston” Chip$ on track 6 Icewear Vezzo and Sada Baby together on track 7, “50 Summers” 218bojay on track 8 The last four songs return to Boldy on his own, closing with “Sunshine.” The opener, “Love Me Now,” came out as a single on October 23, and the album was formally announced six days later, on October 29, according to a report on the release. The guest list leans heavily local. Payroll Giovanni, Icewear Vezzo and Sada Baby are all Detroit names, and Sada Baby and Payroll both appeared with Boldy on Big Sean’s 2020 “Friday Night Cypher,” the 11-rapper posse cut that also featured Eminem. A release rate few rappers try Bentayga Genesis lands one day short of a year after Criminally Attached, his Roc Nation album with Nicholas Craven, released on November 14, 2025. What happened in between shows how fast Boldy works. Counting only the studio albums and EPs listed in his discography, 2025 alone brought 11 releases: Murder During Drug Traffic (January 3), Permanent Ink (January 24), The Exorcism (February 11), Token of Appreciation (February 27), Hommage (March 28), Alphabet Highway (April 4), Conversational Pieces (May 2), the EP Magnolia Leflore (May 23), Late to My Own Funeral (July 11), the vinyl EP ADU 2 (November 4) and Criminally Attached (November 14). That works out to nearly one project a month, each with a different producer or partner: RichGains, The Flaurist, Chuck Strangers, Antt Beatz, V Don, Real Bad Man, Your Boy Posca and Nicholas Craven among them. 2026 has kept the pace, with the EPs Salvation for the Wicked (with Ransom and Craven) in February and Manhunt (with Rome Streetz) later that month, before Bentayga Genesis. The approach traces back to his 2013 debut, My 1st Chemistry Set, made entirely with The Alchemist. Their 2020 reunion, The Price of Tea in China, brought him wider attention and led to his move from Mass Appeal to Westside Gunn’s Griselda Records the same year. Badiyaa recently covered the latest Griselda project, Westside Gunn’s 16-track album Heelmatic, as well as another Detroit producer-and-rapper pairing, Bruiser Wolf and Conductor Williams’ The Dealer Wins. Where to hear it Bentayga Genesis is streaming now. The Spotify listing puts the total at 34 minutes and 1 second across 12 songs, and Royal House Records holds both the composition and recording copyrights. Boldy’s own artist page on the service also lists a 2026 album titled Trapper’s Alley 3: Hell or High Water, a sequel to the mixtape series he started in 2011, so the count for this year is not finished yet. Further reading Wikipedia: Boldy James Image: Michael Tighe, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. 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