{"id":226,"date":"2005-03-12T23:21:24","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T23:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the_rza_reveale\/"},"modified":"2005-03-12T23:21:24","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T23:21:24","slug":"the_rza_reveale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/music\/the_rza_reveale\/","title":{"rendered":"The RZA Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/rza_200.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=200,height=150,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rza_200\" title=\"Rza_200\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/rza_200.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>The mastermind producer behind the Wu-Tang Clan, the RZA &#8212; AKA Robert Diggs, Bobby Digital, Prince Rakeem, The Abbot, and Rzarector &#8212; was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4525189\"  target=\"_blank\">interviewed<\/a> by Terry Gross on NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air this week. Most startling revelation: Bobby wrote for the high-school newspaper. Most awkward exchange:&nbsp; RZA explains to Terry the flute melody he used in the Ghost Dog theme:<\/p>\n<p>RZA: It was joy mixed with sorrow and morbid.<\/p>\n<p>TG: Morbidity, did you say? Yeah. Well there&#8217;s something very eerie about the theme.<\/p>\n<p>RZA: That&#8217;s what I mean. I think, I meant eerie then, if morbid and eerie don&#8217;t mean the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>TG: [laughs] What&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>RZA: Do they mean the same thing? Morbid and eerie?<\/p>\n<p>TG: Well eerie is kind of mysterious and morbid has to do with death. But I think it&#8217;s both, because the movie has a lot to do with death.<\/p>\n<p>RZA: Right. Well I&#8217;ll say eerie then. And morbid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mastermind producer behind the Wu-Tang Clan, the RZA &#8212; AKA Robert Diggs, Bobby Digital, Prince Rakeem, The Abbot, and Rzarector &#8212; was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air this week. Most startling revelation: Bobby wrote for the high-school newspaper. Most awkward exchange:&nbsp; RZA explains to Terry the flute melody he used in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}