Review Summary: The first two Bobby Digital albums were actually GOOD, this is just really embarrassing.
To be frank, Digi Snacks is yet another concoction of the ever more embarrassing persona of the infamous Wu-Tang producer Bobby Digital. It seems as if RZA used Bobby Digital as a way to rap about what every other rapper raps about, seems like he shouldn’t
have to stand behind a persona to that sort of thing. And yet, despite the laugh-out-loud factor of the concept of Bobby Digital, the first two albums by Bobby Digital were entertaining, and surprisingly enough, really good. However, taking a turn for the better by a slightly more personal album under his own name RZA, he must have seen how lame the concept of Bobby Digital really was. Somehow, despite this realization, RZA, seeing the lackluster (and wrong) critical reaction to his third album, he huddled back to his Bobby Digital persona, and made an album that stands as, while not among the worst Wu-Tang solo albums have to offer(that goes to U-God’s discography), but as the most ridiculous and weird in the completely wrong way.
Don’t get me wrong though, in places, RZA’s still got it. “You Can’t Stop Me Now”, whose beat also used for Nas’s Untitled, has just as much soul on here as well, as RZA goes over the history of the Wu-Tang up to when they went platinum (“*pish* yeah we platinum”), and while Inspectah Deck’s verse shows just shows just how far he’s declined lyrically, “You Can’t Stop Me” is easily the best track off of Digi Snacks…
And that’s really where the 99% of the positives of Digi Snacks end, with the only other really stand-out thing being the excellently crafted pop chorus of “Drama”.
There are quite a few tracks that just bite the dust completely. “Straight off the Block”, a track that features production from David Banner, gives us a track that would sound completely out of place on any album period. “Booby Trap” has some nice MC murda lyrics, but the chorus eliminates the possibility of this track being taken seriously ever (“STOP/It’s a booby trap/would you rather have a digi or a Scooby snack/Scooby Snack YAWWW/while we living in a booby trap”). “Good Night is a track that just dozes and loses your attention, particularly the chorus, where Thea van Seijan’s lullaby voice lulls us into a slumber that RZA probably doesn’t want us to. “Creep” is another failure of Thea van Seijan, except this time, her voice sounds completely out-of-place and while RZA’s above average verse almost salvages the track, his damn Wu-Tang Killa Bees run up the track with subpar gangsta rhymes.
Every other track on the album essentially is salvaged by something or something else. And that’s whats really sad about Digi Snacks. RZA, in places, still has it, but the people he is working with are mediocre at best, and completely horrific at worst, and even then, on Digi Snacks, RZA seems to thinks that messing with two half cooked ideas makes one wholly cooked idea. And while some tracks are good, they just seem like the former status quo for our down under villainous hero Bobby Digital.
And I don’t know folks, but this maybe a sign of why Cuban Linx II has not been released yet.
