RZA - Digital Bullet
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RZA - RZA as Bobby Digital – Digital Bullet (Koch)
(Tuesday October 2, 2001 11:42 AM
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Released on 01/10/2001
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Wu solo albums are notoriously hit and miss. Patchier than a Friesian cow, most are musically masterminded by Clan lynchpin the RZA, a producer responsible for some of the most sublime moments in the last decade of hip hop. Yet so prolific is his output it also has the capacity to sound like the laborious fruit of a weary one-man production line. Back as his womanising, fast living, gun-toting alter ego Bobby Digital, this second album continues to document Bobby's exploits in graphic expletive ridden detail, giving D12 a run for their money in the misogynist stakes. In fact it's hard to tell whether these are cautionary tales of woe or the fantasies of a truly disturbed mind. Too many tracks sound like tired Wu cast offs saved from the studio floor to prove that he's capable of doing this in his sleep. The sorrowful soul loops of 'Can't Loose' and 'Be A Man' drag on along a straightforward path with little variation - the format only rising to former glories on the supremely chilling 'Do U', complete with skeletal strings and voice of GZA. The Clan assisted digital stabs of 'Glockopop' with lyrics spat like gunfire also stand out, while the album's finest moment, 'Build...
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