The Twelve Days of Wu-Mas 2023 - Day #8

RZA revived his Bobby Digital alter-ego on three separate occasions in 2022, each one exploring a different facet of the character while presenting the listener with a unified narrative journey. That's what I would have written had that last part actually been true, but I don't honestly believe that Prince Rakeem was thinking that far ahead when he was putting together the three separate Bobby Digital EP-length albums for release. Instead, he was likely more influenced by branding and marketing than anything else.

RZA Presents: Bobby Digital and the Pit of Snakes, which is admittedly a pretty cool title, performs double duty as both an album and as the musical accompaniment of a graphic novel by the same name co-written by RZA. The story finds our hero "embrac[ing] his id, ego, and superego [and] embark[ing] on a quest to figure out the nature of his reality and himself," or at least the press release claims, and that description just sounds fucking horrible. It does play as the natural endpoint for the Bobby Digital character, however, with RZA leaning all the way in to his more obnoxious traits and reading far more into a comic book superhero who originally fought crime while smoking honey-dipped blunts than absolutely necessary.

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-Max