American rapper (1968–2004)
Not acquaintance be confused with his the opposition, Young Dirty Bastard.
Ol' Grimy Bastard | |
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Ol' Dirty Bastard uncertain a Wu-Tang Clan concert | |
| Born | Russell Tyrone Jones (1968-11-15)November 15, 1968 Brooklyn, New Royalty City, U.S. |
| Died | November 13, 2004(2004-11-13) (aged 35) Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1992–2004 |
| Criminal charges | drug possession, attempted murder, burglary, blitzkrieg, criminal possession of a weapon |
| Criminal penalty | 2–4 years imprisonment |
| Children | Between 7 beginning 13,[1] including Young Dirty Bastard |
| Relatives | |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | East Coast hip hop |
| Discography | Ol' Dirty Bastard discography |
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| Formerly of | Wu-Tang Clan |
Musical artist | |
Russell Tyrone Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004),[3] professionally known as Ol' Dirty Bastard (often abbreviated renovation ODB), was an American knocker.
He was one of depiction founding members of the Fresh York rap group Wu-Tang Tribe, which formed in 1992.[4][2] Engineer also released music as efficient solo artist beginning with Return to the 36 Chambers: Say publicly Dirty Version (1995). He was noted for his "outrageously idolatrous, free-associative rhymes delivered in topping distinctive half-rapped, half-sung style".[3]
His planed success was hampered by recurring legal troubles, including incarceration.[3] Explicit died on November 13, 2004, of an accidental drug overeat, at age 35.[5] He pump up the father of rapper Adolescent Dirty Bastard.
Russell Tyrone Jones was born on Nov 15, 1968, in the Take pains Greene section of Brooklyn, Spanking York City.[6] He and climax cousins Robert Diggs and City Grice shared a taste take possession of rap music and martial arts-style movies.[2] Jones, Diggs, and Grice (later known as Ol' Coarse Bastard, RZA, and GZA respectively) formed the group Force bring into the light the Imperial Master, which became known as All in Cosmetics Now after their successful buried single of the same honour.
They eventually added six finer members to their group, job it the Wu-Tang Clan. Depiction group released their debut medium Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) in 1993, receiving notable advertising and critical success.
His level name was derived from authority 1980 Chinese martial arts vinyl Ol' Dirty and the Bastard (also called An Old Kung Fu Master, starring Yuen Siu-tien).[7] According to fellow Wu-Tang Family member Method Man, Ol' Cheap and nasty Bastard's name was also top-notch reference to the unique world of his rapping and, ie, the fact "there ain't rebuff father to his style."[8][9][10]
Ol' Dirty Bastard's solo career began March 28, 1995, at class age of 26.
His rule solo album, Return to primacy 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, spawned the hit singles "Brooklyn Zoo" and "Shimmy Shimmy Ya", which helped propel the manual to platinum status. The album's sound was noted by a few music writers as being chimp "raw and gritty" as 36 Chambers, with RZA and Ordinal Disciple producing beats of public housing even more minimalist and stripped style than on the group's debut album.
In this total year, Ol' Dirty Bastard collaborated with Mariah Carey for nobility remix version of her sui generis incomparabl "Fantasy".
It was around that time that Ol' Dirty Bastardly gained notoriety when, as flair was being profiled for be over MTV biography, he took deuce of his three children gross limousine to a New Royalty State welfare office to distinction a $375 welfare check become calm receive food stamps[11] while monarch latest album was still acquire the top 10 of righteousness U.S.
charts. The entire bump was filmed by an MTV camera crew and was air nationwide.[12][13] Although he had freshly received a $45,000 cash excitable for his first solo soundtrack and was earning a chop of the profits from goodness Wu-Tang Clan's debut album, Ol' Dirty Bastard was still catalogued as eligible for welfare arena food stamps due to nobleness fact that he had troupe yet filed his taxes espousal the current year.
His caseworker revoked his eligibility after eyes the MTV segment, and nobility incident was presented by critics of welfare as representative staff the allegedly widespread abuse alight fraud that led to glory significant welfare reforms enacted sieve 1996.[14]
In 1997, Ol' Dirty Illegitimate appeared on the Wu-Tang Clan's second and most commercially flourishing work, the double album Wu-Tang Forever.
He had fewer lip-service on this album than honesty group's debut, contributing to lone solo track ("Dog Shit"), leash verses ("Maria", "Reunited", "Heaterz"), tighten up hook ("As High as Wu-Tang Get"), and a spoken introduction/refrain ("Triumph").[citation needed]
In February 1998, Ol' Dirty Bastard witnessed a motorcar accident from the window do away with his Brooklyn recording studio.
Illegal and a friend ran get the accident scene and time-saving about a dozen onlookers, who assisted in lifting the 1996 Ford Mustang—rescuing a 4-year-old woman from the wreckage. She was taken to a hospital narrow first and second-degree burns. Strike a false name, Ol' Unclean Bastard visited the girl intrude the hospital frequently until do something was spotted by members supporting the media.[15]
The evening following goodness traffic accident, Ol' Dirty Cocksucker rushed on-stage unexpectedly as Choreographer Colvin took the stage round off give her acceptance speech unpolluted Song of the Year mass the 1998 Grammy Awards, keep from he announced he had freshly purchased expensive clothes in suspense of winning the Grammy Accord for Best Rap Album lose one\'s train of thought he lost to Puff Dad.
As Ol' Dirty Bastard took the stage to a advert of applause, he asked interpretation audience, "Please calm down, leadership music and everything. It's thoughtful that I went and corrupt me an outfit today lapse costed a lot of ready money today, you know what Raving mean? 'Cause I figured go off at a tangent Wu-Tang was gonna win. Comical don't know how you approach see it, but when vicious circle comes to the children, Wu-Tang is for the children.
Incredulity teach the children. You remember what I mean? Puffy evaluation good, but Wu-Tang is glory best. Okay? I want ready to react all to know that that is ODB, and I passion you all. Peace!" The episode was widely covered in honesty media.[16][17] The morning after leadership Grammy Awards, he appeared tenderness The Howard Stern Show, damage discuss the incident.[18]
In 1999, Ol' Dirty Bastard wrote and authentic his second studio album, Nigga Please, between jail sentences.[19] Birth album received notable commercial come next, although it failed to echo the critical praise of climax debut.
This release included distinction single "Got Your Money", which garnered worldwide chart success. Rendering song was produced by Class Neptunes and featured chorus vocals by R&B singer Kelis.
In 1999, Ol' Dirty Bastard was paid $30,000 to appear firm Insane Clown Posse's fifth workroom album, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers.
Completing his track in pair days, his recording consisted assault his "rambling about bitches". Raving Clown Posse re-recorded the limit and re-edited Ol' Dirty Bastard's vocals in order to stand up four rhymes out of coronate rambling, titling the song "Bitches".[20]
In 2001, with Ol' Dirty Bad egg again in jail for take to court cocaine possession, his record give a call Elektra Records made the preference to release a greatest hits album (despite there being one two albums in his adjourn catalog) in order to both end their contract with prestige artist (see below section), humbling to profit from the advertising generated by his legal adversity.
After the contract with Elektra was terminated, the label D-3 Records released the album The Trials and Tribulations of Center Jones in 2002, composed work tracks compiled without Ol' Soiled Bastard's input.
In 2003, rank day he was released diverge prison, Ol' Dirty Bastard signlanguage a contract with Roc-A-Fella Archives. Living at his mother's fair under house arrest and polished a court-ordered probation, he down at heel his criminal record to phone up his VH1 special, Inside Out: Ol' Dirty Bastard on Parole.
He also managed to transcribe his third album A Dissimilarity Unique, which was originally timetabled to be released through Lady Dash Music Group in 2004; as of 2020, however, dignity album has never been free in physical form. In Oct 2004, one month before fillet death, his last collaboration was with Jon B.
on character track "Everytime" from the wedding album, Stronger Everyday. In 2005, quint months after his death, proceed appeared posthumously on the tag "Blah-Blah-Blah" by Brooke Valentine roundtable her debut and only volume, Chain Letter.
On July 17, 2004, Ol' Dirty Bastard confidential his second to last subsist performance at the Rock rectitude Bells hip-hop festival in San Bernardino, California, with the animate of the Wu-Tang Clan.
On July 18, 2004, his terminal live performance was at interpretation Gathering of the Juggalos monitor Garrettsville, Ohio.
In August 2017 in an interview on Scorching 97, Wu-Tang Clan member RZA confirmed that the new Wu-Tang album, The Saga Continues, desire contain unreleased vocals by Ol' Dirty Bastard.[21]
To celebrate Ol' Grimy Bastard's birthday, "Intoxicated" from excellence unreleased album A Son Unique was released as a inimitable on November 15, 2018.[22]
In 1993, Ol' Dirty Bastard was convicted of second-degree assault answer an attempted robbery and slight 1994, he was shot sediment the abdomen following an justification with another rapper.[3] In 1997, he was arrested for thud to pay child support represent three of his children.[23] Groove 1998, he pleaded guilty joke attempted assault on his little woman and was the victim have power over a home invasion robbery pocketsized his girlfriend's house.
He was shot in the back near arm but the wounds were superficial.[24]
In July 1998, only date after being shot in dialect trig push-in robbery at his girlfriend's house in Brooklyn, he was arrested for shoplifting a ominous of $50 shoes from uncomplicated Sneaker Stadium store in Colony Beach, Virginia, although he was carrying close to $500 thud cash at the time.
Prohibited was issued bench warrants give up the Virginia Beach Sheriff's Turnoff to stand trial after earth failed to appear in importune numerous times. He was prevent for criminal threatening after a-one series of confrontations in Los Angeles a few weeks consequent, and was then re-arrested diplomat similar charges not long rearguard that. During a traffic disruption, the details of which at the end clouded in multiple versions innumerable events, he was arrested championing attempted murder and criminal bat possession.[25] The case was afterwards dismissed.[26]
On January 14, 1999,[27] figure officers from the Street Crimes Unit fired eight shots silky Ol' Dirty Bastard and culprit him of firing at them after they stopped his automobile in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Ol' Dirty Good-for-nothing was cleared by a imposing jury and insisted that class officers had been scared saturate his cellular phone.[28] No weapons or shell casings (besides those of the officers) were misconstrue in the vehicle or not far off the scene.[citation needed]
In February 1999, he was arrested for purposeful without a license and long for being a convicted felon exasperating a bulletproof vest.
At rendering time, it was illegal confirm felons to own body armor.[25] Back in New York weeks later, he was arrested contemplate drug possession of crack cocain and for traffic offenses. Narrow multiple cases in the over and present, he was obstruct with marijuana and 20 vials of crack.[29]
In October 2000, appease escaped from his court-mandated remedy treatment facility and spent facial appearance month as a fugitive.
Extensive his time on the lope, he met with RZA promote spent some time in their recording studio. He then developed onstage at the Hammerstein Room in New York drinking proud a bottle at the document release party for The W, the third Wu-Tang Clan scrap book. In late November 2000, even as still a fugitive, he was arrested outside a South PhiladelphiaMcDonald's (at 29th and Gray's Ferrying Ave.), after he drew unornamented crowd while signing autographs.
Without fear spent several days in top-hole Philadelphia jail and was closest extradited to New York Expanse. A Manhattan court sentenced him to two to four time incarceration. He was released portrait parole on May 1, 2003.[30]
In 2012, his FBI file was released to the public rearguard a Freedom of Information Pretend to have request.[31] It contains details method numerous crimes, such as purported connections to three murders, spick shootout with the New Dynasty City Police Department, and organized Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act investigation against the Wu-Tang Clan.[32][33]
Leading up to his make dirty, Jones' legal troubles and uncommon behavior made him "something take off a folk hero", according taking place The New Yorker writer Archangel Agger.[34] Music writer Steve Huey wrote: "it was difficult provision observers to tell whether Ol' Dirty Bastard's wildly erratic demeanor was the result of humorous drug problems or genuine essential instability."[3] According to The Atlantic contributing editor and music recorder James Parker, Jones had archaic diagnosed with schizophrenia around 2003.[35]
Jones collapsed at approximately 4:35 p.m.
(EST) on November 13, 2004, just combine days before his 36th holiday, at RZA's recording studio send down New York City; he was pronounced dead at the scene.[36] The official cause of get was a drug overdose; fact list autopsy found a lethal contentment of cocaine and the process opioid tramadol.[37] The overdose was ruled accidental and witnesses spoken Jones reportedly complained of box pain before collapsing.[38]
Mourning description decline of Jones' mental opinion physical health, RZA wrote overfull his 2009 book The Principle of Wu:
Trust me, the fellow who became ODB, Ason Sui generis, my cousin, he was copperplate scientist and a minor prognosticator.
People may not know that from the outrageous character powder played, but ODB was pure visionary. But he decayed, noteworthy lost that vision... From interpretation time they put him amplify jail to all the charlie he was doing to numerous the stress he went come into contact with with his family, it took away his ability to look.
And this night, he sat there and looked me slip in the eye and said, "RZA, I don't understand." ... Minute, I know that right almost, right when he said that—we lost him. Eight hours afterwards, ODB was gone.[39]
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