Wu-Tang Clan royalty RZA recently chopped it up with Apple Music host Ebro Darden for a recent episode of
The Ebro Show. During the roughly 15-minute video conversation, RZA touched on the passing of DMX and wound up comparing him to the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
“The first time I heard him was on the radio with ‘Where My Dawgs At?’” he says. “That was ripping through New York on Hot 97 just played back-to-back and I knew automatically that it was a real dude on the mic, a real energy. I don’t like to compare artist to artist, but if I was to compare energy as far as real and rawness, I’d have to compare him to ODB. It was real, it wasn’t fabricated. When I had the chance to meet the brother, his spirit, his purity, it’s just pure. I just caught a spine tingle right there just thinking about his purity, man. It’s real.