Robert Diggs, born in Brooklyn, New York. He was one of eleven children and his childhood was very poor "I remember being robbed for 35 cents once" "I come from welfare checks and food stamps and shit" "There was litterally a day you could ask for a quarter and not get it" Rza recalls.

In the early 80´s The Gza/Genius started a group called All In Togheter Now with his two younger cousins Robert Diggs a.k.a. Prince Rakeem and Russel Jones a.k.a. Ol´Dirty Bastard not much is known about that time. Years after Prince Rakeem signed a record deal with the label Tommy boy

They released his first EP "Ooh we love you Rakeem" (1991) which didn´t sell at all. ("Tommy ain´t my motherfuckin boy"). Prince Rakeem went back home to lick his wounds and then he got all his old Staten Island homies togheter and started the Wu-Tang Clan back in 1993. Since no record label would invest in the group they had to scramble the cash for a promo tape themselfs and then sell it on the street. The single was called "Protect ya neck" and on the b-side "Method man", it was a huge underground hit. With their fantastic promo tapes they secured a comfortable deal with Loud which gave them the elbow room they needed.

At the same time Prince Rakeem also formed the group Gravediggaz with To Poetic a.k.a. The Grymreaper Frukwan a.k.a. The Gatekeeper and the De La Soul producer Prince Paul a.k.a. The Undertaker, Paul remembers on day in 1993 when he and the Rza were bullshiting about the future. "He was telling me how he figured out how to manipulate the whole industry." "I´m going to do this and i´m going to put these records out, then get bigger deals..." And i was like "Yeah word" "But everything he said happened exactly as he figured it out."

Today The Rza has produced 2 Wu tang albums (Enter the wu tang 36 chambers and Wu tang forever) 6 wu solo albums (Method man´s Tical, Ol´Dirty Bastard´s Return to the 36 chambers (the dirty version), Raekwon´s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Gza/Genius Liquid Swords Ghost Face Killah´s Ironman and Cappadonna´s "The Pillage") and also two albums for the Gravediggaz (6 Feet Deep/Niggamortiz and The Pick The Sickle The Shovel). He has also started a clothing line called Wu-wear and produced tracks for other artist such as Sunz of man, Notorius B.I.G., Cypress Hill Björk and Killarmy. He has re-written the rules of the music industry by signing the clan members to diffrent major labels. (George Clinton would have been proud.) They have created a buisness pyramid built on a unique, impregnable foundation. All of the Wu´s induvidual projects-specifically deals for Method Man (Def jam) Ol´ Dirty Bastard (Elektra) Raekwon (Loud) Gza (Geffen) Ghost Face on(Razor Sharp,Epic) and Cappadonna on(Razor Sharp,Epic) are 50 percent partnerships with Wu-Tang productions. The Wu-Tang family has sold separatly and collectively more then 5 million records. Each Wu member with a solo deal contributes 20 percent of his earnings to Wu tang productions. This way everyone profits.