He was a star in the last season of Californication. Did a great job, was in almost every episode. Still makes music. Been an actor in lots of films.
>> ^Stu:

RZA is Robert Fitzgerald Diggs. Grammy winning artist and a member of what was the Wu-Tang Clan. He hasn't done much since the 90s that's recognizable or of note except that he made it into the game Draw Something which apparently revitalized his career enough to let him direct a movie.>> ^Deano:
Who the hell is RZA? Looks like it might as well have been directed by QT.

>> ^Stu:

RZA is Robert Fitzgerald Diggs. Grammy winning artist and a member of what was the Wu-Tang Clan. He hasn't done much since the 90s that's recognizable or of note except that he made it into the game Draw Something which apparently revitalized his career enough to let him direct a movie.>> ^Deano:
Who the hell is RZA? Looks like it might as well have been directed by QT.



He also scored the first Kill Bill movie, which, I guess is how he convinced QT to let him do this.

Best comment on it so far:
"It's like a teenager wrote a script with all the class things they'd like to see in a movie and actually did a good job"

RZA is Robert Fitzgerald Diggs. Grammy winning artist and a member of what was the Wu-Tang Clan. He hasn't done much since the 90s that's recognizable or of note except that he made it into the game Draw Something which apparently revitalized his career enough to let him direct a movie.>> ^Deano:

Who the hell is RZA? Looks like it might as well have been directed by QT.

Who the hell is RZA? Looks like it might as well have been directed by QT.

>> ^solecist:

quentin tarantino? no. it's written and directed by a rapper. misleading title!


but produced by tarantino, who has had a close relationship with RZA since kill bill.

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When the MC's came, to live our their name
And to perform (forrrrm)
Some had, to snort cocaine (caiiinnne) to act insane (sannne)
with before Pete Rock-ed it on, now gone
that the mental plane (plaaanne) to spark the brain (brainnn)
with the building to be born
Yo RZA flip the track with the what to guy
Check em check chicka icka etta UHH

Fake niggaz get blitzed
and mic bites I swing swords and cut clowns
Shit is too swift to bite you record and write it down
I flow like the blood on a murder scene, like a syringe
on some loud howl shit, to insert a fiend
But it was yo ock, the shop stolen heart
Catch a swollen heart from not rollin smart
I put mad pressure, on phony wack rhymes that get hurt
Shit's played, like zodiac signs on sweatshirt
That's minimum, and feminine like sandals
My minimum table stacks a verse on a gamble
Energy is felt once the cards are dealt
With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts
that attack, the mic-fones like cyclones or typhoon
I represent from midnight to high noon
I don't waste ink, nigga I think
I drop megaton BOMBS more faster than you blink
Cause rhyme thoughts travel at a tremendous speed
Clouds of smoke, of natural blends of weed
Only under one circumstance is if I'm blunted
Turn that shit up, my clan in da front want it

I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible
But when I swing my swords they all choppable
I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper
Child educator, plus head amputator
Cause niggaz styles are old like Mark 5 sneakers
Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers
Don't even stop in my station and attack
while your plan failed, hit the rail, like Amtrak
What the fuck for? Down by law, I make law
I be justice, I sentence that ass two to four
round the clock, that state pen time check it
With the pens I be stickin but you can't stick to crime
Came through with the Wu, slid off on the DL
I'm low-key like seashells, I rock these bells
Now come aboard, it's Medina bound
Into the chamber, and it's a whole different sound
It's a wide entrance, small exit like a funnel
So deep it's picked up on radios in tunnels
Niggaz are fascinated how the shit begin
Get vaccinated, my logo is branded in your skin

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.

A wonderful film with an amazing soundtrack. I have watched this movie and listened to the soundtrack many many times. The Japanese soundtrack is notoriously hard to attain.

The film takes place in a fictional Northeastern city and its environs in the present day United States. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious "Ghost Dog", an African American hitman in the employ of the Mafia, and who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings, Hagakure.

The film's score and soundtrack is produced by the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA, his first soundtrack production. He was later involved in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill franchise, Blade: Trinity, and other movies.

US and Japanese versions of the soundtrack album have been released, each with a different set of tracks. The Japanese release also has some songs not in the film. Songs in the film that don't appear any either soundtrack album include From Then Till Now performed by Killah Priest, Armagideon Time performed by Willi Williams, Nuba One performed by Andrew Cyrille and Jimmy Lyons and Cold Lampin With Flavor performed by Flavor Flav. RZA also has a small role in the movie, playing a camouflage wearing, cross-bearing "street crusader" counterpart to Ghost Dog's samurai. As Ghost Dog and RZA's character meet on the street, he and Ghost Dog bow and exchange greetings.

RZA: Ghost Dog, power and equality.
Ghost Dog: Always see everything my brother.

After the greeting they both pass each other and continue on their way. RZA is credited as "Samurai In Camouflage" in the end credits.

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Ho. Ly. Crap. That is one of the coolest (weirdest) videos I've seen on VS in a long time. Maybe it's because I just watched Kill Bill

FYI, the song is the theme to a 1968 horror film of the same title. It was chosen for the Kill Bill movie by Quentin Tarantino, who apparently likes the original film and screened it at his 1996 Austin, TX film festival, despite it (the movie) being panned by many. Incidentally, all of the music for the Kill Bill movie(s) (with the exception of the RZA's original pieces) was taken from other movies' soundtracks. Q.T. made the soundtrack a "soundtracks compilation".