Ol' Dirty Bastard

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Russell Tyrone Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004) was an American rapper known by the stage name Ol’ Dirty Bastard (often shortened to ODB by mainstream media). He was one of the founding members of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.

Ol’ Dirty Bastard simultaneously brought a measure of humor and a touch of the absurd to the Wu-Tang Clan. Often noted for his unusual mic technique (critic Steve Huey writes of Jones’s “outrageously profane…, free-associative rhymes” delivered “in a distinctive half-rapped, half-sung style”), Jones’s stage name came from a 1980 kung fu film entitled Ol’ Dirty & The Bastard, the relevance of which was articulated by Method Man’s assertion that there was “no father” to Jones’s style.

After establishing the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol’ Dirty Bastard went on to a successful solo career. However, his professional success was hampered by his erratic personal behavior and frequent legal troubles, including incarceration. He died in late 2004 of a drug overdose in a recording studio.

Biography

Life and Career

Ol’ Dirty Bastard was born Russell Jones in Brooklyn in 1968, and grew up in the neighborhood of Fort Greene. As he got older, he started hanging out more and more with his cousins Robert Diggs and Gary Grice; they all shared a taste for rap music and kung-fu movies. Diggs, later to be known as the RZA, Grice, later the GZA, and Jones formed Force Of The Imperial Master, which subsequently became known as the All in Together Now Crew after they had a successful underground single of that name.

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hampek wrote:
yesterday afternoon

odb is fucking crazy. big love <3

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blackburn6600 wrote:
Saturday evening

Ol' Dirty Bastard is one of my idols; he's simply awesome! <33

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AzeR90 wrote:
Saturday morning

fuck yeah i agree baby!!!

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hunnybunny21 wrote:
last month

mother FUCK i love ol' dirty bastard dirt McGirt big baby jesus.

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BackInThaDays wrote:
last month

Poooooop Shooooot

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www222gol wrote:
last month

brooklyn zoo - ho ho ho [*] rest in peace

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annikor wrote:
last month

kind of godlike

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mojeParanoje wrote:
last month

bum chakalaka

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ohmyjulian wrote:
last month

broooklyn ZOO!

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AusRotten wrote:
last month

The sickest fuckin' dude to ever pick up a mic!!!!!!!!!!! All time favorite hip-hop artist, & the most unique.

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tasteslikeGUM wrote:
last month

<3

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powdered_teeth wrote:
last month

see me at the cocaine store

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blafblabla wrote:
last month

better recognize.

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DeadTreeDancer wrote:
last month

ODB died for our sins.

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perishedinpain wrote:
last month

i dont give a fuck where u resideeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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necronougat wrote:
August 2008

"ILL GRAB DA MIC AND ILL DAMAGE U "

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KiborgKrab wrote:
August 2008

риальне!111адин

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rapeniggger wrote:
August 2008

Good job! You recognized a joke!

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Soofmatic wrote:
August 2008

you're not serious infant-tango..

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GarciaMarquez wrote:
August 2008

yea he'll be there with strings attached to his corpse. like ventriloquism

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