why does everyone hate bobby digital?

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― minna (minna), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:16 (10 years ago) Permalink

60% IS LIKE HELLA WEAK

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

He's a bad rapper?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

Worst hip hop record I ever heard wa the first BD album. Total waste of time - no hooks, overly complcated lyrics about precisely nothing and a terrible sleeve. No need for it whatsoever.

― Neil Simpson, Friday, 9 May 2003 07:31 (10 years ago) Permalink

i have to say that i was a bit let down since i read all these interviews with RZA going off about how it was going to be some futuristic symphonic epic of action hero honey blunt madness and it was just an eh o-k rap album with clumsy keyboard beats. i don't hate it though.

also... wasn't it going to be a film?

and,,,,
the b! the o! the b! the b! the y! the d! the i! the g! the i! the t! the a! the l!
that's like 5 hooks in one.

― Honda (Honda), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

RZA should stick to producing, his flow is quite irritating. I did like "Build Strong", however, because of how he aknowledged his weakness. The rarest thing in hip hop, I think.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Domestic Violence part 2" with Big Gipp was ace, and anyone who claims that RZA's a mediocre rapper really needs improved aural abilities. I think he's one of the most charismatic emcees around.

― Etienne (Etienne), Friday, 9 May 2003 08:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

maybe this complaint is too picky considering what goes on all the time in pop music, but when I first heard RZA was gonna be "Bobby Digital" I thought "b-b-but what about the Bobby Digital who already exisits--the Jamacian producer, Digital B label, etc.?" seemed weak either way--that is, if he did know about him or didn't. Soured me on RZA's "Bobby Digital" from the start. You want creative re-naming: "big baby jesus" owns you.

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Friday, 9 May 2003 11:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

huh huh, Robbie Analog

(fwiw, I actually quite like the Bobby Digital rekkid, but I like lots of not-hooky tweaky music)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 9 May 2003 12:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

rza's an incredible rapper - see his veses on 'impossible', 'a better tomorrow', '4th chamber', 'wu gambinos', everything else - but over a whole double album he just ends up soundign monotonous. actually, that's the main reason the wu are so great, they've got so many great rappers popping up all over the place that there's an incredible density to everything they do whereas most other hip hop albms have no more than a few different voices so they end up running out of things to day and end up with endless "def jam...peace..it's nineteen ninety four, baby" rubbish.
i remember there being almost no involvement by other wu members on bobby digital (i may be wrong, i haven't listened to it for years) which and also yeah, there aren't really any hooks or anything. the only song i remember liking is 'love jones' and that's just because the sample on it is so gorgeous

― adam b (adam b), Friday, 9 May 2003 13:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

`Cos he's the Yahoo Serious of Hip Hop.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:35 (10 years ago) Permalink

alex do you really have any idea about anything other than shitty punk rock?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

Hey, The Wonder Stuff aren't punk rock.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

I can't believe someone said the SLEEVE on the first BD album is terrible. What the fuck?!?!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:41 (10 years ago) Permalink

he's like the lord custos of crappy ny trash rock

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:42 (10 years ago) Permalink

Oooooh BURN!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:43 (10 years ago) Permalink

beep boop

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

better than BEING lord custos tho...can you imagine actually considering all that late-80s/early-90s 120 minutes the apex of music?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

alex do you really have any idea about anything other than shitty punk rock?

You may know more about Hip Hop than I do (or perhaps not), but not knowing a specific solitary thing about a genre certainly hasn't stopped whistledheaded cheese monkeys from spouting forth their misinformed two cents on these threads, so why should I be any different?

That said, I think the whole "Bobby Digital" persona is both hilarious and tragic. Actually, I recant my earlier accusation (that he's the Yahoo Serious of Hip Hop) and submit that he's the CHRIS GAINES of Hip Hop.....forcing a ridiculously NEEDLESS charade on fans who already love and respect him for his estabished work.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:47 (10 years ago) Permalink

now see, if you said THAT at the beginning i woulda agreed with you!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:48 (10 years ago) Permalink

It's better than disc 2 of Forever.

― ss, Friday, 9 May 2003 15:51 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't think it's among the Wu's greatest moments, but I still like it. I half-idolise the RZA anyway.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 9 May 2003 20:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 10 May 2003 10:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 10 May 2003 10:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

I was just flipping through the latest Wax Poetics and lo there's a RZA interview.

The first picture re-endeared me to the guy: there he was eating ramen noodles out of a tupperware container, no frontin'.

I thought to myself, maybe this guy is OK after all. He will allow himself to be photographed eating ramen noodles out of a tupperware container. I wonder if he prepared it at home, and then brought it with? I like it when people plan ahead, and you can't argue that home-cooked ramen noodles represent a food bargain.

I flipped a few more pages.

There was another picture of RZA: tenderly playing an acoustic guitar, looking intently at the fretboard. The picture of artistic seriousness.

Everything that was accomplished by the ramen noodles picture was suddenly horribly ruined.

p.s. - I didn't read any of the interview.

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Saturday, 10 May 2003 19:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

5 years pass...

i liked the production on the first BD album a lot but the new album just seems like more of the same boringness as the last one. i thought he might have fresh ideas for some reason but its just plodding, not really developed beats, and rza talking all sorts of weird randomness. is there any point to the BD persona anymore? i dont see how its any different to what a rza album would be like. do gee street own the rights to solo rza albums or something?

the dont be afraid beat is good though. kinda bouncy compared to the rest of the album.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 20 July 2008 11:30 (4 years ago) Permalink

"weird randomness" about absolutely nothing, just to clarify.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 20 July 2008 11:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

Love "NYC Everything"

― billstevejim, Sunday, 20 July 2008 22:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

He's a great rapper but his flow gets really really claustrophobic on a whole album. Think I like Digital Bullet better but don't remember... Brooklyn Babies I think was the real amazing track

― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 05:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

my lovin is digi . . .

― a fool committed to a VISION of SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 21:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

also, y'all crazy! bobby digital kicks mucho ass, papi!
and for some reason i think of it as a summer rekkid

― a fool committed to a VISION of SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 21:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

You ain't shit your daddy ain't shit
your brother ain't shit your money ain't shit
your lab ain't shit your rings ain't shit
your gear ain't shit your jewels ain't shit
your kicks ain't shit nigga your whips ain't shit
Bobby you ain't shit nigga I'm the shit
you ain't shit your daddy ain't shit
your brother ain't shit your money ain't shit
your lab ain't shit your rings ain't shit
your gear ain't shit, your jewels ain't shit
your kicks ain't shit, your whips ain't shit
Bobby, you ain't shit, nigga I'm the shit
you ain't shit, your daddy ain't shit
your brother ain't shit, your money ain't shit
your lab ain't shit, Bobby you ain't shit
your rings ain't shit, your gear ain't shit
your jewels ain't shit, your kicks ain't shit
your whips ain't shit, nigga, I'm the shit
You ain't shit, your daddy ain't shit
your brother ain't shit, your money ain't shit
your lab ain't shit, your rings ain't shit
your gear ain't shit, your jewels ain't shit
your kicks ain't shit, your whips ain't shit
nigga, I'm the shit...

― a fool committed to a VISION of SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 21:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

bobby di-jindal

glock go pop pop pop

― Poliopolice, Friday, 7 September 2012 03:16 (9 months ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

― sheer tip (how's life), Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:50 (1 month ago) Permalink

haven't listened to this jam in like 10 years, but it popped into my head today. "what's a rhumba?"

― sheer tip (how's life), Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:55 (1 month ago) Permalink

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