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RZA as Bobby Digital
Audio Clip: "Long Time Coming" Robert Diggs, best known outside of Staten Island as RZA, has made his name as the best producer in hip-hop. Since Wu-Tang Clan's start in the early 1990s, he's created his own peculiar aural landscape -- typically with a strange, off-kilter style heavy on stoned-out soul riffs and off-key kung fu soundtracks. Even though RZA has expanded his career to embrace chess and film, he remains a rapper at heart. Once again in his Bobby Digital persona, he continues his odd ways on Digi Snacks, yoking together heterogeneous sounds in a manner that is both familiar and challenging. While RZA doesn't have the flow of, say, Ghostface, he has the verbal felicity to make up for it. There are plenty of rich, sludgy beats on Digi Snacks, of course, but what surprises is the cohesiveness of his sound: how it all works together. The trademark samples are there, but now the live music adds a new dimension. As the best in the business, RZA deserves his reputation as the mad scientist of sound. A great summer piece.-- Leopold Froehlich |
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