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Rap
Release Date: 08/28/2001
Digital Bullet is
RZA's second album under his latest alias, as
Bobby Digital. It's no shock that he brought
Bobby back; the first
Digital outing,
Bobby Digital in Stereo, was a high mark in the
Wu Tang Clan producer's prolific career. What is a bit surprising is the sound of this effort, which frequently stretches all the way back to the mystical murk of
the Clan's first album,
Enter the Wu-Tang. The muffled beats and disorienting, late-night soundscapes of that
hip-hop classic have been imitated countless times since its 1993 release, but nobody does 'em like
the Rizza, and uneasy tracks like
"Must Be Bobby" and
"Domestic Violence Pt. 2" seem to bring him full circle -- as does the presence of several
Clan members, including the jailed
ODB. Even the nods to the mainstream --
"Glocko Pop" and the swaying single
"La Rhumba" -- seem, like
RZA's best work, to have arrived from a slightly different dimension. Meanwhile, there is a storyline to this installment of the
Digital story, but as on
In Stereo, listeners have to use some imagination to fill it out;
RZA's rhymes are often as evocative and opaque as the kung-fu flicks he loves. But as always, he creates tracks that are more about atmosphere than message -- and when he's on his game, as he is here, it's hard to argue with that approach.
~Dan LeRoy, All Music Guide
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