Bobby Digital In Stereo 2LP

For RSD 2023 Bobby Digitals origin story is revisited on an exclusive colored vinyl offering.

In November of 1998, Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA unleashed his first solo record, and his memorable alter-ego, Bobby Digital. Bobby Digital In Stereo is essentially a soundtrack. A soundtrack to a Blaxploitation/martial arts film that never was – at least outside of the imagination of the artist and the listener – as RZA channels the martial arts superhero (or perhaps anti-hero) inspirations of his youth into his Bobby Digital persona.

The recording follows a loose storyline of RZAs endeavors as Bobby Digital – out to enlighten the people of the projects to the poisons of the hood that surrounded them every day. Production-wise, the release features a different approach from RZAs work with Wu-Tang a layered experimental keyboard driven sound instead of dusted sample-heavy beats a technique RZA called the Digital Orchestra.

Bobby Digital In Stereo rode to #16 on the Billboard top 200 peaked at #3 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop albums chart and went on to RIAA Gold status. Bobby Digital In Stereo is now regarded by manyas the best of RZAs Bobby Digital projects.