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RZA, the Wu Tang Clan's great producer and MC, brings his third chapter in the saga of Bobby Digital, and it's a fragmented, often compelling set.
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Live instrumentation and Billie Holidayesque vocal hooks make Digi Snacks colourful, though never particularly surprising.
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Yes, the RZA is a legendary eccentric, but Digi Snacks is too impossibly weird.
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Under The RadarRZA's chaotic rhymes are still a treat, but they too, are not filling enough. [Summer 2008, p.94]
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The record never hits a stride that allows it to pull together as a cohesive album, save its fantastical, paper-thin theme.
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Things just ain't the same for quasi-mad scientist/ghetto philosopher/sexual dynamo superheroes.
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The surprising question about the new recording by the RZA as alter ego Bobby Digital is not whether the outlandish masked get-ups, goofy comic strip scenarios and uninspired rhymes will undermine his credibility as the Wu Tang overlord, but whether he’s lost his production touch.
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Unfortunately, the inspiration and vivid imagery don’t sustain, leaving you stuck in the middle of a boring anecdote.
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UncutThis serves notice that the recent Wu-Tang renaissance may now be at an end. [Sep 2008, p.100]
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Positive: 15 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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Apr 24, 2015