RZA as Bobby Digital – Bobby Digital In Stereo (RSD 2023)
- Label:
- HHC Records
- Art.No.:
- 0154308
- Cat.No.:
- HHC2022
- Released:
- 1998
- Cover:
- Picture
- Format:
- 2LP
- Pressing:
- US - Reissue
- Genre:
- RSD + United States + RSD 2024 + Hip Hop / Rap
Record Store Day 2023 Release.
Translucent Red Vinyl Edition!
or RSD 2023 Bobby Digital’s origin story is revisited on an exclusive colored vinyl offering.
In November of 1998, Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA unleashed his first solo record, and his memorable alter-ego, Bobby Digital. Bobby Digital In Stereo is essentially a soundtrack. A soundtrack to a Blaxploitation/martial arts film that never was - at least outside of the imagination of the artist and the listener - as RZA channels the martial arts superhero (or perhaps anti-hero) inspirations of his youth into his Bobby Digital persona.
The recording follows a loose storyline of RZA’s endeavors as Bobby Digital - out to enlighten the people of the projects to the poisons of the hood that surrounded them every day. Production-wise, the release features a different approach from RZA’s work with Wu-Tang – a layered experimental keyboard driven sound instead of dusted sample-heavy beats – a technique RZA called the “Digital Orchestra.”
Bobby Digital In Stereo rode to #16 on the Billboard top 200 – peaked at #3 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop albums chart – and went on to RIAA Gold status. Bobby Digital In Stereo is now regarded by manyas the best of RZA’s Bobby Digital projects.
Title | Featuring | Producing | Time | ||
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A1. | Intro | Frank "Foxy... | RZA | 00:37 | |
A2. | B.O.B.B.Y. | RZA | 05:23 | ||
A3. | Unspoken Word | RZA | 04:44 | ||
A4. | Slow Grind African | Lisa I'Anson | RZA | 01:02 | |
A5. | Airwaves | RZA | 01:47 | ||
A6. | Love Jones | Angel Cake | King Tech | 04:31 | |
B1. | N.Y.C. Everything | Method Man | RZA | 04:17 | |
B2. | Mantis | Masta Killa... | RZA | 03:33 | |
B3. | Slow Grind French | Victorie He... | RZA | 00:53 | |
B4. | Holocaust (Silk Worm) | Doc Doom!, ... | RZA | 05:14 | |
B5. | Terrorist | Black Knigh... | RZA | 03:25 | |
C1. | Bobby Did It (Spanish Fly) | Ghostface K... | RZA | 04:22 | |
C2. | Hand Writing On The Wall | Ras Kass, M... | RZA | 01:39 | |
C3. | Kiss Of A Black Widow | Angel Cake | Inspectah Deck | 02:47 | |
C4. | Slow Grind Italian | Lorenza Cal... | RZA | 01:01 | |
C5. | My Lovin' Is Digi | Force MD's,... | RZA | 04:26 | |
D1. | Domestic Violence | U-God | RZA | 05:18 | |
D2. | Project Talk | RZA | 01:51 | ||
D3. | Lab Drunk | RZA | 03:34 | ||
D4. | Fuck What Yo Think | RZA | 03:10 | ||
D5. | Daily Routine | RZA | 04:23 |