Birth Of A Prince
Album by RZA
Released	October 7, 2003
Recorded	?
Genre	Hip hop
Length
Label	Koch Records
Producer(s)	RZA
Professional reviews
Playlouder (10/10) link Village Voice (Positive) link Blender (Positive) December 2003 Dotmusic (7/10) link Vibe (Positive) December 2003 Prefix Magazine (3.5/5) link All Music Guide (3/5) link Austin Chronicle (3/5) link Popmatters (Mixed) link Dusted Magazine (Mixed) link Stylus Magazine (Negative) link Pitchfork Media (3.1/10) link
RZA chronology
Digital Bullet (2001)	Birth Of A Prince (2003)	-

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Track listing

All tracks produced by the RZA unless otherwise stated

1. "Bob N' I"
2. "Grunge, The"
   • Producer: Megahertz
3. "We Pop"
4. "Grits"
5. "Fast Cars"
   • Producer: True Master
6. "Chi Kung"
   • Producer: Origin
7. "You'll Never Know"
8. "Drink, Smoke, Fuck"
9. "Whistle, The"
10. "Drop Off, The"
11. "Wherever I Go"
12. "Koto Chotan"
13. "Day To God Is 1,000 Years, A"
    • Producer: Bronze Nazareth
14. "Cherry Range"
15. "Birth, The"
    • Producer: Bronze Nazareth
16. "See The Joy"

This album has an interesting concept dimension. A character known as O (help out if you know who this is) appears early in the album calling on the phone to tell RZA about a drop off, urging RZA not to forget. Later there is a short skit where RZA meets this guy and they start talking. RZA mentions he made the drop off properly. This guy then starts explaining how he has been studying 'lessons'. RZA is unbelieving given the guys character but the guy persists telling RZA to check this stuff out which is Supreme Mathematics. Later on you hear RZA preaching this stuff to someone else and then O comes along and this is where RZA tells him, "don't call me bobby no more" when asked he says to call him "Prince Rakeem". Thus, the Birth of a Prince. This is also reflected in the tracks. At the beginning they are much more focused on street life etc. Later in the album there's an increasing emphasis on rapping about God and some of the ideas from RZA's sect of Islam. The last track is a very interesting and unique culmination. All through out the RZA production creativity is exemplified with each track a very unique groove. The pioneering hardcore hip hop group Wu-Tang Clans plan to conquer the hip hop industry consisted not only of making each core member into a solo star in their own right, but also to create and promote numerous affiliate artists. ... The pioneering hardcore hip hop group Wu-Tang Clans plan to conquer the hip hop industry consisted not only of making each core member into a solo star in their own right, but also to create and promote numerous affiliate artists. ... The Supreme Mathematics, in the teachings of the Nation of Islam and The Nation of Gods and Earths, is an alleged system of understanding numbers alongside concepts that are used along with the Supreme Alphabet as tools to unlocking the keys to reality and/or the universe. ...