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RZA

“RZA is one of my heroes. He is one of the greatest producers alive, period. He’s also got innovative business skills. We share the same interest in universal thinking and are influenced by great thinkers like Hazrat inayat Khan and are influenced by the Mysticism of Sound and Music. This session was on a commissioned shoot for Blaze Magazine during the introduction of RZA as Bobby Digital. The location was in the basement of then club N.V. in Tribeca during the filming of his first film project about Bobby Diggy. I was into the whole thing: hip hop culture, the music, Kung Fu and eastern philosophy. This image was later flipped from a print I gave to world-class artist Kostas Seremetis for a body of work titled Heroes.”