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    RZA Considers Dropping Science for U.S. Government Research Labs

    • Posted on Jun 11th 2008 2:00PM by Jonah Flicker
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    When pressed, many musicians will admit that what they really want to do is act, and many actors will admit that what they really want to do is direct. But what Wu-Tang Clan mastermind, established solo artist, actor, soundtrack composer and author RZA really wants to do is become a one-man U.S. government think tank. "They'd have to pay me millions of dollars for it 'cause I got a millionaire life, know what I mean? Maybe that's the reason it don't happen," he says, laughing. But he seems to be pretty serious about the concept. "All these f---ing ideas I got in the scientific world, they just not being heard because I'm a musician. That's kind of weird. I was talking to my wife about this recently. I was like, 'Yo, don't you think [the government] should just hire me and put me in a research lab for ten years so I can just research something?'"

    Until that day when he puts on his government-issued lab coat, RZA has got a new release from his alter ego Bobby Digital set for release this month. 'Digi Snacks' is the third concept album dealing with the exploits of his character, this time augmented by the contributions of members of System of a Down, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante and rapper David Banner. RZA has found inspiration in some of cinema's greatest for his Bobby Digital persona. "When I made the first Bobby Digital album, I was inspired by Robert De Niro. I was high, of course," he admits. "I have many voices in my head, many styles of rhyming. I said, 'I'm gonna become a character when I do my styles.' For me, it's all part of expressing artistic creativity, whether I'm doing it musically, acting on the silver screen or whether I'm sitting there playing chess."

    After the last Wu-Tang album, '8 Diagrams,' was released last year, RZA had to deal with some negative fallout from within the Clan. In reaction to the expansive, experimental sound RZA utilized in his production, Raekwon even called him a hippie. "If Raekwon says that, I gotta take it seriously," says RZA. "He's my brother, he's close to me. [But] I think he miscalculated. I wasn't offended by it, because a hippie is a nigga who smoke weed and play the guitar. S---, I smoke weed and play the guitar."

    RZA will be performing with a live band, Stone Mecca, when he hits the road in support of 'Digi Snacks.' "Expect the unexpected," he enthuses. "I don't care if there were only ten motherf---ers in the crowd: I never did a show that motherf---ers left not having a good time, man."
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    marcusat 6-11-2008

    IGNORANT!!!

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    Coreyat 6-12-2008

    This nigga is trippin. I mean as far as production goes he's a mastermind and legend, easily one of the best the genre of hip hop has seen so far. But how does that correlate with being a scientist. Let's not act like you don't need to spend years in a university in order to some relevant research. Science and art are two different realms.

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    andyat 6-12-2008

    he's so hot and a great actor,I heard he dated a model on the celeb dating site 's earching millionaire* c om'.wish him good luck.

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    chuckle..at 6-14-2008

    "Ignorant?" shuuut up.
    All of a sudden people have lost their senses of humour like "aw hell naw, he aint no scientist." You're the same dudes that was CONVINCED that he was a ninja back in the 90's. Gotta love wild his imagination and braggadocios nature - thats hip hop for you.

    slash/ who in the hell does he think that he is? heheh...

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    Wally Seanat 6-14-2008

    the rza is either the smartest man alive or really, really high. i'm guessing it's the later.

    themessageblog.blogspot.com

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    blindsnow1at 6-20-2008

    Wu-Tang forever, this is just the next eschelon.

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