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Classic Album Review: RZA | RZA As Bobby Digital

The Wu-Tang producer is as sharp as ever on this high-concept alter-ego outing.

This came out in 1998 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Wu-Tang Clan producer RZA gives high concept a new meaning with his futuristic, funky new alter-ego Bobby Digital, a superfly superspy superstar with a raccoon mask, a computer brain and a very, very big … gun.

But RZA‘s real secret weapon is still deceptively simple musical collages — give this guy a basic beat, a toy piano and a random sound effect and he’ll give you a pumping killer track. Here, he spins off about 20 of ’em, without having to plunder anybody’s back catalogue or drag every two-bit rapper in off the street for a cameo. With Bobby Digital, RZA shows he’s sharp as ever.