Ol’ Dirty Bastard has been on my mind a lot lately. On Wednesday I felt strangely compelled to break down his quasi-comprehensible but classic opening verse on “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”, and on Tuesday we were treated to the supremely ironic new posthumous anti-drug track from ODB, “Say NO”. All of that was an unintentional but perhaps destined lead-up to today, a day that sadly marks the five year anniversary of ODB’s passing after a drug overdose.
As a tribute to Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s on the anniversary of his tragic death, XXLMag.com rolled through the infamous Brooklyn Zoo with ODB’s former A&R and longtime friend Dante Ross to hear his craziest memories of the beloved Wu-Tang rapper, including his inspiration to use his welfare card as an album cover, the time he jumped out of a window and an incident involving one of LL Cool J’s gold records and some urine. Cause, you know, that’s the type of stuff that went down when you rolled with ODB.
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And just because I know you’re not nearly done reminiscing about Ol Dirty Bastarsd a.k.a. ODB a.k.a. Dirt McGirt a.k.a. Roll Fizzlebeef, here’s a hilarious story about the time ODB peed on one of LL Cool J’s gold records. Yeah, that seriously happened. R.I.P. Dirty, you are truly missed.
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