RZA as Bobby Digital Bobby Digital In Stereo Vinyl LP RSD 2023
Tracklist:
LP 1
1. Intro
2. B.o.b.b.y.
3. Unspoken Word
4. Slow Grind African
5. Airwaves
6. Love Jones
7. N.Y.C. Everything (feat. Method Man)
8. Mantis
9. Slow Grind French
10. Holocaust (Silk Worm)
11. Terrorist
LP 2
1. Bobby Did It (Spanish Fly)
2. Hand Writing On The Wall
3. Kiss Of A Black Widow
4. Slow Grind Italian
5. My Lovin' Is Digi
6. Domestic Violence
7. Project Talk
8. Lab Drunk
9. Fuck What You Think
10. Daily Routine
For RSD 2023 Bobby Digitals 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 RZAs 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 RZAs 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 RZAs Bobby Digital projects.