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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.
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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hellwithin wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rLf-4xgNwc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HJELoTJPDQ
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hellwithin wrote:
ODB is looking down on us. Or. Up, whatever.
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Cryptomnesiac wrote:
can they read shoutboxes in Heaven? Or. Hell, whatever.
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indierockus wrote:
@invalidation: yeah! some of them od on cocaine!
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havLord wrote:
crack is the reason im addicted to ODB!
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Fastro wrote:
He's the reason im addicted to crack!
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OSIRUS187 wrote:
LOVE YOU TO THE DEATH Nu'h WE ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU DIRT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LamarMatic wrote:
some deep documentary coming up about ODB http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/videos/id.3095/title.
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MaxPower420 wrote:
He's the reason im addicted to crack!
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Plaxico80 wrote:
i dont walk i GET CARRIED
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Rebeltron wrote:
If you wanna step up to mah mudafuckn rep. chk-chk-pahh!
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Mdeezy wrote:
you ain't ringin a bell, you ain't bussin a grape
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keltysem wrote:
Wu-Tang Clan Members Gather Once Again for Chamber Music!! Here's the Article to the story: http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=133&csid2=844&fid1=39437. Check it outtt
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Invalidation wrote:
For fuck's sake, not EVERY black rapper who dies young was murdered.
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foreignconcepts wrote:
I forgot he was killed 2 days before his birthday </3
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AR-DZEJ wrote:
R.I.P. :*(
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cavs88 wrote:
i aint no nigga
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MontanaCorleone wrote:
Who couldn't figga how to pull a motherfuckin trigga?
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adomay wrote:
Me and Mariah go back like babies on pacifiers!
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XguiltparadeX wrote:
ya dont wanna fuq with me
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