Playboy.com: It seems like you feel a certain freedom recording as Bobby Digital. You've described the new album as "that hour of the day where you smoke weed and chill out."

RZA: Yep, exactly. And I just finished smoking some weed. I'm in that hour right now. [Laughs]

Playboy.com: Is that something you do on a regular basis?

RZA: You know, I take an hour a day to kind of zone in.

Playboy.com: How do you feel about legalization of marijuana?

RZA: I thought it was legal! [Laughs]

Playboy.com: Well, it's practically legal in some states. A lot of police look the other way when they catch someone in possession of pot, especially in urban areas.

RZA: I think it definitely should be legal for a certain age of people. A grown man makes a choice on what to put in his body. Coca-Cola and weed, if you put their [negative health benefits] on the scale, you might want to make Coke illegal.

Playboy.com: Let's talk about politics. In May you went to a Hillary Clinton benefit and donated money to her campaign.

RZA: A friend of mine, Brett Ratner, and some other people had an event for her. I'm not really a political person, but going to that event got me thinking about the Clinton family. When they had control over this country, my cousins was doing better. My aunt was doing better. Everybody seemed to be kind of smooth. But for the last many years, everybody's lives have been really fucked up. Just the basic economics of life are fucked up. Under Clinton people were just making money, chillin', life was feeling good, people were smiling, you know what I mean? Eight years of Bush and that ain't happening.

Playboy.com: What do you think of Obama?

RZA: I think he's a superhero right now. He represents the kind of man that we need for the job. We need someone more tangible. Someone that not only that people of America can touch, but the people around the world can touch. Someone that is deeply rooted and can be respected. We as Americans need an international image makeover. Obama will help us with that.

Playboy.com: Do you feel that politics is an important topic to cover in your music?

RZA: I'm more of a spiritual person than a political person. I write songs that touch on all different aspects of life. Music and film and art. Artistic expression is the way that we communicate the sufferings of our generation. You can't protest anymore. Peaceful protesting is gone, and terrorism has replaced it. All you can do is artistically express your view and hope that you can hit somebody inside the stomach. Hope that somebody feels you and gets the message.