The rapper RZA known as “the father of drug rap”

Founder and first producer of the Wu-Tang Clan, RZA, has been a outstanding determine in hip-hop for over three many years. The musician (actual identify Robert Diggs) helped assemble the crew within the late Nineteen Eighties alongside GZA and Ol’ Soiled Bastard (ODB).

RZA was the collective’s beatmaker and founder. The musician and actor was recognized for his lof-fi and gritty manufacturing type that grew to become the signature sound of the Staten Island group, and he has since grown to grow to be a flexible icon. The crew first broke into the mainstream in 1992 with their hit single ‘Protect Ya Neck’ and, as representatives of Staten Island, went on to have an unfathomable quantity of hits, including ‘C.R.E.A.M’ and ‘Da Mystery of Chessboxin’. 

As a rapper, producer, director and film producer, Diggs has advanced right into a extremely prolific inventive and has directed a number of movies, together with The Man with the Iron Fists and Minimize Throat Metropolis. Nevertheless, he’s nonetheless an emcee at coronary heart and in an interview, he as soon as unveiled who he believes is the “father of drug rap.”

Regarding drug rap, many would imagine that the daddy of it might be from the South, contemplating that one aspect of Southern hip-hop tradition that has run rampant and prompted some issues lately is the ‘Lean & Pills’ lifestyle.

Nevertheless, though in up to date rap music, artists discuss consuming medicine, RZA, as a Nineties veteran, wasn’t referencing those that rap about taking narcotics however as a substitute, musicians who preach about promoting them.

Revealing who he believes began the development of drug rap, RZA professed that Kool G Rap started the motion, stating, “G Rap is the father of drug Rap yo. Off course, you know, I think Raekwon and Ghostface brought it to our generation and took it to a hands-on thing cause that’s where we came from.”

He continued, “But G Rap’s’ Road to the Riches, Wanted Dead or Alive, when he had that lyric, ‘Crack head searching a dead man’s pocket,’ they put you right on the block with that one. Or take his lyrics off ‘The Symphony’, which, at that time, Kane was the hottest rapper, but G Rap stole that song.”