The RZA

Effervescent NY hip-hop trailblazer the RZA upturned and overwhelmed the genre’s bedrock as ringleader of pop agitators the Wu Tang Clan: a crucial, loose-knit, mutinous troupe whose aural insignia encircled intricate rhyme-schemes, paranormal soul samples and peculiar noms de plum.

A dude whose pseudonyms include Prince Rakeem, Ruler Zig-Zag-Zig Allah, The Abbot and Bobby Digital, the RZA – that is, Brooklyn’s Robert Diggs – is a versatile producer whose curriculum vitae spans horror-core hip-hop spin-off Gravediggaz, and soundtrack scoring for the estimable likes of Jim Jarmusch (Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai) and Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill vols 1&2).

Delivering live sets and a Q&A at our Ghost Dog... film screenings, the RZA makes his Triptych debut in the guise of hip-hop cyberpunk and hyper-vocaliser Bobby Digital: a profligate voyager first exposed on 1998’s ‘Bobby Digital in Stereo’. He’s whipsmart fast and impeccably dressed. And he’ll whip your ass at chess.


Dee J A'La Fu

Aberdeen’s Dee J A’la Fu is an eminent turntablist, scratchmaster and hip-hop head extraordinaire whose thundering productions have been unleashed by Big Dada, Ninja Tune and Surface Pressure. He’s also performed alongside the likes of Gil Scott Heron, Blackalicious, Roots Manuva, De La Soul and Afrika Bambaataa.


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