RZA
RZA was born in Brownsville, New York, United States on July 5th, 1969 and is the Rapper. At the age of 54, RZA biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, movies, and networth are available.
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Robert Fitzgerald Diggs (born July 5, 1969), better known by his stage name RZA (RIZ-? (biographer, singer, actress, and director Michael Jackson.) is an American rapper, record producer, singer, actor, and director.
He is the de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan.
He has worked on all of Wu-Tang Clan's albums, as well as numerous Wu-Tang solo and affiliate projects.
He is the cousin of two other original Wu-Tang Clan members, GZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard.
He has also released solo albums under the alter-ego Bobby Digital, as well as executive producing credits for side projects.
RZA was a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, where he went by the name The RZArector. Since the late 1990s, RZA has been heavily involved in filmmaking.
He has appeared in several films, most notable in Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004).
Starting with his directorial debut, The Man with the Iron Fists in 2012, he has written and directed in film and television.
In addition, he has appeared in numerous films and television series, including the films American Gangster and Brick Mansions, and the TV series Gang Related and Californication. He is best known for his music, with a style that has included the use of soul samples and sparse beats that have had a huge following.
The magazine The Source included him on its list of the 20 Top Producers in the magazine's twenty-year history.
He was named one of the top eight best hip-hop producers of all time by Vibe, and NME named him on their list of the 50 Greatest Producers Ever.
Early life
Diggs was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on July 5, 1969. He was named after the Kennedy brothers Robert and John Fitzgerald, both of whom his mother adored greatly. Diggs has given his given name a "honorable" name, considering both Robert and John's history. Terrance Hamlin, the rapper's uncle, and Mitchell "Divine" Diggs are among Diggs' younger siblings.
Diggs spent summers in North Carolina with his uncle, who encouraged him to read and study from ages three to seven. Diggs was first exposed to hip hop music at the age of nine, and by eleven, they were competing in rap competitions. In 1990, he moved to Steubenville, Ohio, to live with his mother. He spent weekends in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his father operated a gas station in the city's Hill District.
Diggs was charged with attempted murder when in Steubenville and was involved in petty murder and heroin trafficking. He was cleared of the charges, giving him what he describes as a "second chance."
Personal life
RZA is a Five Percent and is often seen wearing the 5% Nation's flag necklace around his neck. He actively promoted the 5% culture (which includes Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet). As he says in his two books, The Wu-Tang Manual and The Tao of Wu, he has also adopted various aspects of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Islam, and Christianity. He has listed Quran, The Bible, and Lotus Sutra as three of his favorite books, noting that each contains enlightenment. His interests include watching martial arts films, and he is also known as a "encyclopedia of martial arts films" due to his knowledge of the subject. After being introduced by Ol' Dirty Bastard's boss Sophia Chang, RZA met and befriended Shaolin Monk Shi Yan Ming. Five Deadly Venoms, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Ninja Scroll, and Fist of the North Star are among his favorite films. Chess is his second most popular pastime. He is a Director of Growth and promoter of the Hip-Hop Chess Federation.
RZA is vegan, and has advocated for animals on behalf of PETA. He was a pescetarian before 1997; "I tell you one thing I did like: the fish and chips." "But this year, I stopped eating fish." "I just felt the death in it one day."
RZA is a resident of Millstone Township, New Jersey.
Music career
Diggs formed "Force of the Imperial Master" in 1984, which was later renamed "All in Together Now" in 1985. Russell Jones, then known as The Specialist, and Gary Grice, then known as Allah Justice, formed a rap band. Around this time, Diggs founded the DMD Posse, which included RZA, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, U-God, Inspectah Deck, 4th Disciple, and Method Man. Diggs and Grice left Jamaica for management reasons, and Jamaica convinced Tommy Boy Music to sign Diggs as a solo artist in 1989 under the name Prince Rakeem. He released the original Ooh I Love You Rakeem promotional sample of the EP, but when Tommy Boy refused to obtain the rights to the sample, he was forced to remix and rerelease the single. The rereleased version failed commercially, and Diggs was later discontinued by Tommy Boy.
He spent eight years in prison after a shoot-out in Ohio in 1992. "My face remained in a smile for three days as they said 'not guilty.' "I was just strolling around town and worrying about my daughter and my mother." I said good riddance to everything that might put me back in the same situation. I was on trial for an attempted murder charge. I was a motherfucking fool with all the details in my head and ending up there." Diggs founded a new group with his two cousins and five other childhood friends in 1992. After the 1983 kung fu film Shaolin and Wu Tang, they named the group Wu-Tang Clan. Each member selected a new nickname for themselves as part of the company's inception. Diggs selected "RZA," based on a name he had been given by fans of his music, "Rza Rza Rakeem," which in turn was based on a song by All in Together Now, "Pza Pza Pumpin," as well as Diggs' graffiti tag, "Razor." When using the Supreme Alphabet, he created a backronym for "RZA," claiming that the word stood for "Ruler, Zig-Zig, Allah."
In December 1992, Wu-Tang Clan's first single, "Protect Ya Neck," was released. Masta Killa joined the organization in 1993, becoming the company's ninth member. In November 1993, they released Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), their debut album. RZA served as Wu-Tang Clan's de facto boss, designing the group's songs and deciding who would be placed on which tracks.
RZA continued to produce nearly every Wu-Tang product from 1994 to 1996, as each of the group's members embarked on solo careers. In 2004's Wu-Tang Manual book, RZA's reign over the Clan at this moment was described as "a draconian monarchy." "Wu-Wear: The Garment Renaissance" was also a hit single of his own. The song appeared on the High School High soundtrack and was subsequently released to advertise the Wu-Tang clothing brand, also known as "Wu-Wear." It reached #60 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #6 on the Hot Rap Singles chart, and #6 on the Hot Rap Singles chart.
Wu-Tang Forever, Wu-Tang Clan's highly awaited second album, was released in 1997. For the first time, RZA delegated a small number of beat-making duties to other Wu-Tang artists, including Mathe, True Master, and 4th Disciple, who are known as the original Wu-Elements, and Clan member Inspectah Deck.
RZA stopped producing every Wu-Tang solo album as he had previously, but instead of contributing one or two songs to each album and earning an Executive Producer award, the firm continued to produce average one or two songs on average.
In 1999, the RZA began to produce film scores. Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), his first film, earned praise; he also had a brief cameo in the film itself as a fellow samurai wearing camouflage. The experience was positive, and as he said in an interview with National Public Radio's Fresh Air, the work with traditional musicians gave him the confidence to read and write music. He co-scored David S. Goyer's "Blade: Trinity" with composer Ramin Djawadi in 2004.
He has also stated that The Cure album, which has been long-awaited, will be his last solo album, so that he can devote more time to his filmmaking career.
RZA was swamped with bids from Bad Boy Records, Aftermath Records, Interscope, and Def Jam, among others for the Wu-Tang Clan supergroup before signing with SRC Records in 2007.
Samuel L. Jackson appeared in the score of the Japanese anime Afro Samurai in 2007. He released the little-known instrumental album The RZA-Instrumental Experience in 2007 and collaborated with Raekwon on his highly awaited Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II. He collaborated with System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian on the project Achozen from 2005 to 2008. One of them, "Deuces," was included in the 2009 film Babylon A.D. Although eight of the songs were released in 2015, the band also produced an album that hasn't been announced, although eight of the songs have been released in 2015.
In 2010, he worked on what was supposed to be a solo album for GZA, Liquid Swords II, but the album was unveiled. RZA also worked on Kanye West's latest album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, as well as Watch the Throne by Kanye and Jay-Z.
RZA revealed in a 2011 interview that he had recently decided to clean out his beat machines of instrumentals he made for the Wu-Tang Clan that had never used; as a result, he gave away ten beats to Nas, Busta Rhymes and Talib Kweli, as well as 20 beats for Kanye West, two of which were used on West's previous two albums. Josh Osho, a British musician, is the recipient of RZA's 2012 debut album L.I.F.E.
RZA also contributed vocals to three songs on John Frusciante's 2012 album Letur-Lefr, and in 2013, he appeared on one of Kid Cudi's 2013 album Indicud. RZA formed Soul Temple Records in August 2012, with a distribution contract from RED Distribution. On September 28, 2012, he hosted one episode of Equals Three, swapping for regular host Ray William Johnson. He appeared on Earl Sweatshirt's album Doris, contributing a verse on the track "Molasses." Despite artistic differences with Raekwon, RZA, and The Wu-Tang Clan, the Wu-Tang Clan released their sixth album A Better Tomorrow in 2014.
Banks & Steelz, RZA and Paul Banks, first joined together in 2013 to produce Nothing But Words, which became RZA's sixth album. Kool Keith, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and Masta Killa were among the guest appearances on this page. "Love + War" and "Giant" were two of the album's singles, as well as "Giant." For the Guillermo del Toro film "Pacific Rim," RZA worked with Ramin Djawadi, who co-scored Blade Trinity and Blake Perlman for the song "Drift."
Good Humor, a ice cream manufacturer, approached RZA in June 2020 to develop a new jingle for ice cream trucks to play, replacing the song "Turkey in the Straw," long associated with minstrel shows that often featured racist lyrics. (Good Humor does not own any trucks, but the corporation wanted to encourage ice cream truck drivers to avoid playing the game). The final composition of RZA was published in August 2020.
In a recent 2020 interview, RZA discussed how being stuck at home during the COVID global crisis led to him resuming work on his long-unveiled The Cure album.
Film career
RZA has appeared in films including Funny People, Due Date, Gospel Hill, Ghost Dog, and Life Is Hot in Cracktown and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stop Stopping.
In Derailed, Coffee and Cigarettes, and American Gangster, RZA appeared. He appeared in G.I. Joe: Retaliation as the character of a Blind Master. RZA made her debut in the science fiction action film Repo Men in 2010. RZA played Tremaine Alexander in the film Brick Mansions, opposite Paul Walker and David Belle, a recreation of District 13, in 2014. He was "Mr.," and he was describing him as "Mr." L.C. : L.A. In the Thai martial arts film Tom Yum Goong 2, "the main protagonist" is "Mega Man."
The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) was directed and starred by RZA.
In the sixth season episode of Robot Chicken, RZA performed guest roles. In three sketches, "Botched Jewel Heist" was depicted. Mr. Peanut's first role is an anthropomorphic strawberry who has been shot dead in a crowd, causing his jelly blood to splatter onto a large piece of bread below (which was covered in Mr. Peanut's peanut-butter blood, who was shot the same way moments before). In his second role, he plays himself and boasts of being a pescetarian, but RZA had to switch from a pescetarian diet to a vegan diet in 1997. In a sketch where a family is pursued by road warriors from forgotten holidays who want to kidnap their two children, his third role was as the Halloween Road Warrior.
In nine episodes, RZA appeared in the television series Californication as Samurai Apocalypse.
In the romantic action comedy film Mr.'s second role, RZA appeared as the supporting role of Shotgun Steve. Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick appear in the right (2015 film).
In the 2019 film The Dead Don't Die, RZA portrayed Dean.
On the Netflix original series "Homecoming Redux or My So Called Stunt Double Life" 2019, RZA narrates a character named Wesley.
In the 2021 action comedy film Nobody (2021 film) with Bob Odenkirk and Connie Nielsen, RZA portrayed Harry Mansell, the protagonist's brother.
RZA began making a feature-length film based on "Bobby Digital," an alias he used on several albums in the late 1990s. Despite the fact that the film was never completed, he continued shooting music videos for his side projects and solo tracks.
In 2011, RZA directed The Man with the Iron Fists, his first feature film, from a script he wrote the previous year. According to various film websites, Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth were instrumental in writing, writing, and casting. In fall 2012, the film was first released.