The mastermind producer behind the Wu-Tang Clan, the RZA — AKA Robert Diggs, Bobby Digital, Prince Rakeem, The Abbot, and Rzarector — was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air this week. Most startling revelation: Bobby wrote for the high-school newspaper. Most awkward exchange: RZA explains to Terry the flute melody he used in the Ghost Dog theme:
RZA: It was joy mixed with sorrow and morbid.
TG: Morbidity, did you say? Yeah. Well there’s something very eerie about the theme.
RZA: That’s what I mean. I think, I meant eerie then, if morbid and eerie don’t mean the same thing.
TG: [laughs] What…
RZA: Do they mean the same thing? Morbid and eerie?
TG: Well eerie is kind of mysterious and morbid has to do with death. But I think it’s both, because the movie has a lot to do with death.
RZA: Right. Well I’ll say eerie then. And morbid.
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