RZA AS BOBBY DIGITAL: NOT LIKE CRAZY
July 7, 2008
There is so much you can ask the RZA. The master producer/composer/MC has done so much in his time with hip-hop (scoring films like Ghost Dog and Kill Bill, acting in American Ganster and producing umpteen Wu-Tang classics) that it’s hard to know where to begin. But with the release of Digi Snacks the third CD from his alter-ego, Bobby Digital, it was a perfect chance to throw everything at him: Wu-Tang Drama, production techniques, The Cure, Cuban Linx 2, ODB and where the heck he found the Charmel’s record he sampled for “C.R.E.A.M.”
Pete Rock and Green Lantern: Let The Beat Build
July 2, 2008
Hip-hop is built on moments. Some of them by accident, some of them planned, others are a mix of both. “Pete Rock is coming here?” Green Lantern said when told the Chocolate Boy Wonder was running late to his studio. While promoting Grand Theft Auto 4 with GL The Urban Daily (my day job) asked Pete Rock to meet us at Green Lantern’s midtown studio, but neglected to tell the Evil Genius. Oops. Our Bad. Mt. Vernon’s finest was stuck in traffic but GL shrugged it off. “Come on, it’s Pete Rock! How I’m not gonna wait for Pete Rock?” [Read more]