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RZA Drops First Single from Forthcoming Album: RZA vs Bobby Digital

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RZA has officially unveiled a new single “Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater”, the first release from his forthcoming album: RZA vs Bobby Digital. The project is due out later this summer and will be executively produced by DJ Scratch. The album sees RZA sparring with his alter ego Bobby Digital, trading lyrical punches track by track over some classic 90s boom-bap production ripe with kung fu movie samples.

RZA first conceived of the album during the early months of quarantine last year. Embracing some time off from his immensely busy work schedule, RZA was keen to sharpen his lyrical sword and reached out to DJ Scratch to supply him with some beats. Before long, RZA had conceptualized a new solo album: RZA vs Bobby Digital, a much anticipated battle between RZA’s peaceful, contemplative self and his more aggressive, womanizing alter-ego Bobby Digital. The end result is a cinematic audio odyssey, in which he modulates between personas and emotions, capturing the bipolar tendencies of the human mind while encapsulating the dramatic past year that we’ve all experienced.

With Scratch exclusively producing the album, RZA was able to fully focus on his first love, MCing, a refreshing notion considering RZA’s prominent production presence on the majority of projects he’s worked on. RZA explains:

“Lyrically the hip-hop part of me had a chance to re-emerge during quarantine. Giving Scratch the reins as a producer and me taking the reins as an MC, that’s what frees me up creatively and lets me play more with lyrical gags and lyrical flows because I don’t have to be focused on everything. He (Scratch) delivered tracks that resonated and brought me back to a sound that I felt was missing. For me it was really natural for me to flow and write to these songs”

Despite having never worked together in an official capacity, RZA and Scratch have long admired each other’s work; in fact Scratch actually produced an instrumental album “If The Wu Was Here”, inspired by RZA’s production.

Earlier this month, RZA teased Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater during a digital screening of Five Deadly Venoms on 36 Cinema, a live-commentary digital film screening platform that he launched during the pandemic. Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater alludes to RZA’s weekly routine of watching martial arts flicks with his cousin ODB during their adolescence in New York City. The screenings and the album are explicitly linked, and 36 Chambers will be releasing further albums tied to 36 Cinema screenings throughout the summer.

RZA vs Bobby Digital is slated to drop August 6th. RZA also recently released Pugilism, a single from another solo project also scheduled for a 2021 release; so stay tuned for further updates on both projects.



source https://undergroundhiphopblog.com/singles/rza-drops-first-single-from-forthcoming-album-rza-vs-bobby-digital/
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