RZA announced he was working on a collaborative album with DJ Scratch called Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater in an interview with HipHopDX last June. Speaking on his partnership with Cadillac at the time, the Wu-Tang Clan legend said he’d tested two of the project’s songs using the 2021 Escalade’s 36 speaker AKG Studio Reference System.
“It sounds remarkable, and I actually took advantage of the opportunity and played two of my own new songs in a demo form,” he said. “So I played a song called to ‘Pugilism’ that DJ Scratch produced for me and a new song ‘Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater.’ Yo, trust me. I’m just going to say this outloud — in this song, I mention Escalade. So it’s crazy. I recorded it before the campaign.”
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He continued, “But what I’m about to do this summer — and I’ll just announce it — I’m going to put out that album. Me and DJ Scratch got the album done. There was a little misprint in the press a couple of weeks ago about Digital Potion. No, the new album that I’m putting out with DJ Scratch is called Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater.”
After briefly changing the title to Bobby Digital Vs. RZA, it appears the duo has reverted back to Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater. According to a press release, the project is scheduled to arrive on March 4 via 36 Chambers ALC/MNRK Music Group. To coincide with the announcement, RZA and Scratch have dropped a new video for the title track.
Check it out below and keep scrolling for the album’s cover art.
Fuck yeah bro!
Still stealing asian culture for a dollar i see. And yes its stealing bc noone in poor asian communities will see a dollar
Tell Asians to get out of the Black Hair business. Tell China and Japan to stop mining resources out of sub-Saharan African nations while paying African citizenry peanuts. (google if you don’t know.) Tell all those K-pop acts and Asian Boy Bands to stop ripping off New Edition and every Black singing group they learn about Tell all the Asian B-Boys and DJs and Asian Rappers to stop using the nword and acting like Black kids from the hood. Do check the appropriation in your Asian household before you talk about RZA.
and then we’ll talk. RZA and Wu and have acknowledged and celebrated Asian influences in their music from their first demo.
Black people always got a list of excuses why they culture vult others. Noone owes you shit! Hiphop always wanna copy italians, asians, colombians , el chapo and steal their identity then yall wanna pretend everyone wanna be black lmaooo delusional
What we copying? I’ve never heard any hip hop artist sound Asian, Italian or Colombian can you tell me which rapper please? Oh wait you mean take a few names off some mobsters and drug dealers lol. So we not actually copying their music right? You a clown a$$ Ho for that. Oh by the way stop listening to black music Ho
Steal all your imagry from every culture but your own and have the nerve to tell someone to listen to black music lmao comedy
I’m excited to hear RZA’s New Album. Wu-Tang Clan has had Shaolin, Kung Fu, Martial Arts & Eastern Philosophy Influences throughout their lives, careers, music & 1st Album 36 Chambers.
Bobby Digital is RZA’s Alter Ego
( his classic Bobby Digital Album showcases that)
With that being said, we are all influenced by our environment, interests & experiences in life.
Love, Learn about & Enjoy our great world ? Happy Lunar New Year ? from a Long Term Expat, Canadian Traveller living the last 10 years here in Taiwan ?? ( & total of 18 years abroad working in 20 countries & traveling through 76 Countries )
Asia has 48 Countries, a diverse mix of cultures, languages & 5000 + year history & culture. I love learning about its it’s great diversity, speak Mandarin & have also been highly influenced by “Asian Culture” to the point of completely changing my life, who I am & how I live & where I live.
We can all learn from each other
Bong Bong ☯️
real music for the knee-grows
you own me money now its actual true so stop mocking and organizations failing big
Man, ya’ll can turn ANYTHING into a racial/political argument. There are times to dig your feet in and have uncomfortable discussions. But, to get outraged and make sweeping claims of racism and culture appropriation over petty hiphop news every day is just emotionally immature. Lighten UP guys, you’re all gonna be so miserable if you don’t relax a little and stop viewing everything through a defensive and sensitive scope. PEACE.
Best album title, bring me back to being a kid. But these are the worst comments I’ve ever seen.