{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Digi Snacks | type = studio | artist = RZA as Bobby Digital | cover = Rza-digisnax-cover.jpeg | alt = | released = June 24, 2008 | recorded = 2007–2008 | venue = | studio = | genre = Hip-hop | length = 60:04 | label = * Wu * Koch | producer = {{hlist|RZA|the Bad Parts|Che Vicious|Danny Keyz|David Banner|George Drakoulias|James Desmond|John Frusciante|King Tech|Panauh Kalayeh<ref name="billb">{{cite web | title = RZA Returns To Bobby Digital For 'Digi Snax' | publisher = Billboard.com | date = 2008-04-17 | url = http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003790785 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080420034533/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003790785 | url-status = dead | archive-date = April 20, 2008 | access-date = 2008-05-13}}</ref>}} | chronology = RZA | prev_title = RZA-Instrumental Experience | prev_year = 2007 | next_title = The RZA Presents: Afro Samurai Resurrection OST | next_year = 2009 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|author=David Jeffries |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/digi-snacks-mw0000788961 |title=Digi Snacks - RZA &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits |publisher=AllMusic |date=2008-06-24 |access-date=2015-09-14}}</ref> |rev2= ''The Boston Globe'' |rev2Score= (mixed)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/music/cd_reviews/articles/2008/07/15/take_about_an_indentity_crisis/ |title=Take about an identity {{sic|hide=y}} crisis |publisher=Boston.com |date=2008-07-15 |access-date=2015-09-14}}</ref> |rev3= Robert Christgau |rev3Score= {{Rating-Christgau|hm3}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist2.php?id=5956 |title=CG: Artist 5956 |publisher=Robert Christgau |access-date=2015-09-14}}</ref> |rev4= ''The Guardian'' |rev4Score= {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|author=Dorian Lynskey |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jul/18/urban |title=Urban CD: RZA As Bobby Digital, Digi Snacks |publisher=Music.guardian.co.uk |access-date=2015-09-14}}</ref> |rev5= ''The Observer'' |rev5Score= {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jul/13/urban.albumreview |title=Review: Rza As Bobby Digital, Digi Snacks |publisher=The Guardian |access-date=2015-09-14}}</ref> |rev6= Pitchfork Media |rev6Score= (4.0/10)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11942-digi-snacks/ |title=RZA: Digi Snacks |publisher=Pitchfork |date=2008-07-01 |access-date=2015-09-14}}</ref> |rev7= PopMatters |rev7Score= (7/10)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/rza-as-bobby-digital-digi-snacks |title=RZA as Bobby Digital: Digi Snacks |publisher=PopMatters |access-date=2015-09-14}}</ref> |rev8= ''Seattle Weekly'' |rev8Score=(mixed)<ref>{{cite web |last=Capp |first=Kevin |url=http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2008/06/cd_review_bobby_digitals_digi.php |title=Seattle News and Events &#124; CD Review: Bobby Digital’s Digi Snacks |publisher=Blogs.seattleweekly.com |date=2008-06-20 |access-date=2015-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216032331/http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2008/06/cd_review_bobby_digitals_digi.php |archive-date=2012-02-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |rev9= ''The Village Voice'' |rev9Score=(favorable)<ref>{{cite web|last=Baron |first=Zach |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-07-02/music/bobby-digital/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709150001/http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-07-02/music/bobby-digital/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 9, 2008 |title=Bobby Digital's Digi-Snacks |publisher=Village Voice |date=2008-07-02 |access-date=2015-09-14}}</ref> |rev10= ''XXL'' |rev10Score={{Rating|3|5}} (L)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=23029 |title=RZA as Bobby Digital Digi Snacks - XXL |publisher=Xxlmag.com |date=2008-07-15 |access-date=2015-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410185958/http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=23029 |archive-date=2009-04-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> }} '''''Digi Snacks''''' is the fourth solo studio album by American rapper and producer RZA; the third album under his Bobby Digital alias. Continuing the story from ''Digital Bullet'', the album was released<ref name="ad">{{cite web | title = RZA Readies Another Bobby Digital Record | publisher = Artistdirect | date = 2008-04-07 | url = http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/news/article/0,,4649691,00.html | access-date = 2008-04-08}}</ref><ref name="fork">{{cite web | last = Thompson | first = Paul | title = RZA Reveals New Bobby Digital Album, Tour | publisher = Pitchfork Media | date = 2008-04-04 | url = http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/49679-rza-reveals-new-bobby-digital-album-tour | access-date = 2008-04-08 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080407102023/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/49679-rza-reveals-new-bobby-digital-album-tour | archive-date = 2008-04-07 | url-status = dead }}</ref> on June 24, 2008, on Koch Records.<ref name=pitch>Thompson, Paul. (29 May 2008) "[http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/50954-rza-finalizes-isnacksi-tracks-adds-date-with-gza RZA Finalizes Snacks Tracks, Adds Date With GZA] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080601022754/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/50954-rza-finalizes-isnacksi-tracks-adds-date-with-gza |date=2008-06-01 }}". Pitchfork Media. Accessed 2 June 2008.</ref> The album was originally titled ''Digi Snax'', but it was changed before release.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wutang-corp.com/news/article.php?id=782 |title=Bobby Digital returns with DIGI SNACKS on June 24th :: news articles at Wu-Tang Corp. - The Official Site of the Wu-Tang Clan |publisher=Wutang-corp.com |date=2008-05-24 |access-date=2015-09-14}}</ref>

The album's first single, "You Can't Stop Me Now," features fellow Wu-Tang Clan rapper Inspectah Deck;<ref name="ad"/> a track by this name featured in reports of early track listings of the group's ''8 Diagrams'' album. RZA has since released another track, "Drama," featuring Monk of Black Knights and singer Thea van Seijen.<ref name="xxl-drama">{{cite web | title = Bangers >> RZA ft. Monk & Thea "Drama" | work = XXL | publisher = Harris Publications | date = 2008-03-17 | url = http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=20352 | access-date = 2008-04-08 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080318233849/http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=20352 | archive-date = 2008-03-18 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

The album also features production from David Banner (on "Straight Up the Block", suggested to be the album's second single), from California producer Panauh Kalayeh and from King Tech,<ref name="billb"/> as well as live instrumentation from Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated funk/soul group Stone Mecca. The latter also backed RZA on a June–July tour of the US, which also featured surprise appearances by Wu-Tang members and affiliates,<ref name="billb"/> to accompany the album's release.<ref name="fork"/><ref name="prefix">{{cite web | last = Weiner | first = Nat | title = New Bobby Digital in July | publisher = Prefix | date = 2008-04-08 | url = http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=20352 | access-date = 2008-04-08 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080318233849/http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=20352 | archive-date = 2008-03-18 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

RZA described the album to Billboard.com as "simply fun hip-hop... a perfect blend of reality, fiction, sci-fi, and martial arts."<ref name="billb"/> The album cover's design was done by Gary Alford, and includes a brief comic within the sleeves.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wuposter.com/ |title=Hip Hop poster and artwork by Gary Alford |publisher=WuPoster.com |access-date=2012-02-13}}</ref>

==Background== {{cquote|This world wasn’t in a digital format in 1998. Now digital is the most compelling form of commerce and entertainment so this is like a relaunch of the character.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prefixmag.com/news/idigi-snacks-i-info-from-rza/18532/ |title='Digi Snacks' info from RZA &#124; Prefix |publisher=Prefixmag.com |access-date=2012-02-13}}</ref>

The album is Digi Snacks because it’s a snack pack of Bobby Digital’s world. Not only music and sounds, but also the comic background, the sci-fi background, the black-exploitation background. Look at the artwork—a girl with an afro, an Asian girl, Bobby sitting in the big king’s chair and then the villains—Raven, Hawk, Eagle and Crane, the four birds of prey that I use as my enemies. Bobby Digital’s life-long nemesis. That adds a comic element to it—as well as martial arts. I’m planning a comic book, a video game—I’m already talking to people. I want fans to be aware of these things.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://larecord.com/interviews/2008/06/20/rza-kung-fu-cures-perversion/ |title=Rza: Kung Fu Cures Perversion! |publisher=L.A. Record |date=2008-06-20 |access-date=2015-09-14}}</ref>}}

==Production== The album's first single, "You Can't Stop Me Now," features fellow Wu-Tang Clan rapper Inspectah Deck;<ref name="ad"/> a track by this name featured in reports of early track listings of the group's ''8 Diagrams'' album. The track samples a version of the Barrett Strong/Norman Whitfield composition "Message from a Black Man," also previously sampled by Mos Def on Undeniable in True Magic, MF Doom on the King Geedorah album ''Take Me to Your Leader'',<ref name="forkstream">{{cite web | last = Hogan | first = Marc | title = New Music: RZA as Bobby Digital <nowiki>[</nowiki>ft. Inspectah Deck<nowiki>]</nowiki>: "You Can't Stop Me Now" <nowiki>[</nowiki>Stream<nowiki>]</nowiki> | publisher = Pitchfork Media | date = 2008-03-18 | url = http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/49333-rza-as-bobby-digital-ft-inspectah-deck-you-cant-stop-me-now-stream | access-date = 2008-04-08 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080405220912/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/49333-rza-as-bobby-digital-ft-inspectah-deck-you-cant-stop-me-now-stream | archive-date = 2008-04-05 | url-status = dead }}</ref> and in the same year, sampled by Nas and producer Salaam Remi for "You Can't Stop Us Now," from the rapper's ''Untitled'' album.

==Track listing== {{Track listing | extra_column = Producer(s) | total_length =

| title1 = Digi Snacks Intro | note1 = featuring Understanding | extra1 = RZA | length1 = 2:07

| title2 = Long Time Coming | note2 = featuring Danny Keyz | extra2 = {{hlist|Panauh Kalayeh|James Desmond|Danny Keyz}} | length2 = 4:11

| title3 = You Can't Stop Me Now | note3 = featuring Inspectah Deck | extra3 = {{hlist|RZA|George Drakoulias}} | length3 = 4:08

| title4 = Straight Up the Block | note4 = | extra4 = David Banner | length4 = 3:01

| title5 = Booby Trap | note5 = featuring Dexter Wiggles | extra5 = RZA | length5 = 3:40

| title6 = Try Ya Ya Ya | note6 = featuring Monk & Thea Van Seijen | extra6 = {{hlist|Che Vicious|RZA}} | length6 = 3:32

| title7 = Good Night | note7 = featuring Rev William Burk, Crisis & Thea Van Seijen | extra7 = RZA | length7 = 5:04

| title8 = No Regrets | note8 = | extra8 = RZA | length8 = 3:01

| title9 = Money Don't Own Me | note9 = featuring Monk & Stone Mecca | extra9 = RZA | length9 = 4:52

| title10 = Creep | note10 = featuring Black Knights, Northstar, Thea Van Seijen & Dexter Wiggles | extra10 = King Tech | length10 = 4:44

| title11 = Drama | note11 = featuring Monk & Thea Van Seijen | extra11 = RZA | length11 = 5:00

| title12 = Up Again | note12 = featuring John Frusciante, Beretta 9, Rev William Burk, George Clinton & El DeBarge | extra12 = {{hlist|RZA|John Frusciante}} | length12 = 6:19

| title13 = Put Your Guns Down | note13 = featuring Star | extra13 = The Bad Parts | length13 =3:34

| title14 = Love Is Digi/Part II | note14 = featuring Beretta 9, Crisis & Thea Van Seijen | extra14 = RZA | length14 = 2:47

| title15 = O Day | note15 = | extra15 = RZA | length15 = 4:00

| title16 = Don’t Be Afraid | note16 = Hidden Bonus Track) CD | extra16 = RZA | length16 = 4:05 }} {{Track listing | headline = iTunes deluxe edition bonus tracks | extra_column = Producer(s) | title16 = Don't Be Afraid | note16 = | extra16 = RZA | length16 = 4:05

| title17 = The Wolf | note17 = | extra17 = RZA | length17 = 1:47 }} {{Track listing | headline = International edition bonus tracks | extra_column = Producer(s) | title17 = Glorious Days | note17 = | extra17 = RZA | length17 = 3:33

| title18 = Insomnia | note18 = | extra18 = J-Love | length18 = 3:48 }}

;Notes * International edition contains an extended version of track #3 "You Can’t Stop Me Now" 8:09. Contains additional vocals from U-God, Zu Keeper & Inspectah Deck.

==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Chart (2008) ! Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|Billboard200|111|artist=RZA|accessdate=October 23, 2014}} |- {{album chart|BillboardRandBHipHop|29|artist=RZA|accessdate=October 23, 2014}} |- |}

==References== {{Reflist|2}}

==External links== * {{YouTube|t6tmEtMx6HI|The RZA talks ''Digi Snacks''}}

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