Ol Dirty Bastard

Posted on 11.16.2004

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Artist : Ol Dirty Bastard
Real Name : Russell Tyrone Jones
Born : 15 Nov 1968
Hometown : Brooklyn, USA
Died : 13 Nov 2004

ODB Biography :

Ol Dirty Bastard was born Russell Tyrone Jones in Brooklyn in 1969, and grew up in the neighborhood of Fort Green as a welfare child. 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. The trio parlayed their obsessions into founding the Wu-Tang Clan, renaming themselves Ol’ Dirty Bastard (since there was no father to his style), the RZA, and the Genius, respectively.

Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the first Wu-Tang Clan’s album was released at the end of 1993 and became one of the most influential rap albums of the decade. In 1994, he was shot in the stomach by another rapper in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn following a street argument. Luckily, the injuries weren’t serious, and Dirty became the second Wu-Tang member to launch a solo career (after Method Man) when he signed with Elektra and released the RZA-produced Return to the 36 Chambers : The Dirty Version in early 1995. He released hit singles such as "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" and "Got Your Money," and appeared on remixes with artists like Mariah Carey.

Unfortunately, after launching a successful solo career, his personal life began to exhibit those same qualities ; ODB spent much of 1998 and 1999 getting arrested.. Over the years, he was wounded in shootings and arrested on a veritable laundry list of charges, including menacing security officers, illegally possessing body armor, driving with a suspended license..
He found time to record a new album under the auspices of several different producers, including the RZA and the Neptunes. Released in September 1999, “Nigga Please” entered the charts at number ten, aided by his position as the undisputed king of hip-hop bad boys ; it also spawned a hit single in “Got Your Money”.

In 2000, after escaping a court-ordered stint in a California rehabilitation center, authorities searched for him for a month. He was finally arrested in Philadelphia, three days after performing in a New York City concert with his Wu-Tang clique.
He was sentenced in 2001 to two to four years in prison for drug possession, plus two concurrent years for escaping from the clinic. He was released in 2003 and immediately signed with Roc-a-Fella. Elektra issued the best-of compilation “The Dirty Story : The Best of Ol’ Dirty Bastard” in late 2001, despite the fact that he’d only released two albums and in early 2002, some of the material he’d recorded during his fugitive days surfaced on the new album “The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones”.

Rapper Ol Dirty Bastard, collapsed and died inside The Wu Tang recording studio Saturday, 13 November 2004, two days before his 36th birthday.

The artist, also known variously as Dirt McGirt or Big Baby Jesus, had complained of chest pains before collapsing at the Manhattan studio, according to a statement from his label, Roc-A-Fella Records.
he wil stay one of the most innovative, creative, and important artists in the hip hop industry. Rip Ol Dirty Bastard..

ODB Discography :


ODB The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones (2002)	ODB The Dirty Story : The Best of Ol Dirty B****** (2001)

ODB Nigga Please (1999)	ODB ODBEP (1998)

ODB Return to the 36 Chambers (1995)	ODB Shimmy Shimmy Ya[EP] (1995)
ODB Brooklyn Zoo [EP] (1995)