Bobby Digital In Stereo
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Album Details

Artist

RZA

Release Date

November 24, 1998

Label

Gee Street Records

Bobby Digital In Stereo is the debut studio album by American rapper and producer RZA. It is an experimental album that is based on a story featuring him rhyming as a hedonistic, fun-loving alter-ego named Bobby Digital and showcasing a unique keyboard-driven sound (rather than samples) that RZA called digital orchestra, receiving mostly positive, though somewhat mixed, reviews.

Track Listing

Bobby Digital In Stereo
  1. Intro
  2. B.O.B.B.Y.
  3. Unspoken Word
  4. Slow-Grind African
  5. Airwaves
  6. Love Jones (featuring Angel Cake)
  7. N.Y.C. Everything (featuring Method Man)
  8. Mantis (featuring Masta Killa & Tekitha)
  9. Slow-Grind French
  10. Holocaust (Silkworm) (featuring Holocaust, Doc Doom, Ghostface Killah & Ms. Roxy)
  11. Terrorist (featuring Dom Pachino, P.R. Terrorist, Doc Doom & Killa Sin)
  12. Bobby Did It (Spanish Fly) (featuring Islord, Timbo King, Ghostface Killah & Jamie Sommers)
  13. Handwriting On The Wall (featuring Ras Kass)
  14. Kiss Of A Black Widow (featuring Ol’ Dirty Bastard)
  15. Slow-Grind Italian
  16. My Lovin’ Is Digi (featuring The Force MDs & Ms. Roxy)
  17. Domestic Violence (featuring Jamie Sommers & U-God)
  18. Project Talk (featuring Kinetic 9)
  19. Lab Drunk
  20. Fuck What You Think (featuring Islord & 9th Prince)
  21. Daily Routine (featuring Kinetic 9)

Total length: 1 hr 8 mins

Quote

It came from a really good bag of weed one day, right? I was in my studio. My birth name is Bobby Diggs. So at the time, creatively, I felt like I was in a digital frame. I felt like I was in high-speed, where everything was digital, in numbers, mathematics. I said to myself at the same time that as Bobby Digital, I could use a character to describe some of the earlier days of my own life. Partying, bullshitting, going crazy, chasing women, taking drugs. At the same time, I would mix in my love for comic books. It was a mixture of fiction and reality together to make a character I thought would be entertaining, and I could utilize that character to get fans into me as an MC, as a lyricist, and also following the path of my life. It’s like pre-RZA. It’s what The RZA struggles not to be, in a way, you know what I mean?

I had to live in a way that I don’t really live… I got to dip my weed in honey, and I had mad bitches around me. I probably fucked with 50 bitches this year… women are queens. But if they don’t know that themselves, Bobby will prey on them. He’ll treat them like bitches if they don’t realize that they’re queens. I had to get Bobby out of me, or else I’d be emotionally unbalanced. Bobby Digital is just me feeling my nuts. RZA is my heart.

I learned how to play chords and progress the chords — I got together at least 16 or 17 different keyboards for this album. I always liked orchestras and strings, so I composed a digital orchestra.

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