RZA - Digi Snacks
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Her presence on an album from the driving force of a hardcore rap collective is a little like finding Portishead showing out for the Kaiser Chiefs. But her girlish vocals signpost a new direction for RZA, one derived from the darker corners of his soundtrack work. The kinetic pile-up of strings, synths, and samples that marked Wu's ascent is just a memory here, replaced by a scrapyard of simple sound effects, plodding beats and RZA's assortment of comic-book non sequiturs and uplift-the-people raps ('I'm like, damn homey, that's poverty/ He's like, word OG, that bothers me'), notably on 'You Can't Stop Me Now', which channels the Temptations' song 'Message From A Black...
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