Ol' Dirty Bastard dead?

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That AllHipHop.com site is claiming so:

http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=3738

Hmmm...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, that really sucks if it's true.

― choo choo the herky jerky dancer (papa november), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I really hope this isn't true.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

That was posted yesterday. I would think the rest of the media would have picked it up by now. (This may just be my way of hoping this ain't true.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't believe it. i've heard that he's dead/ is dying from aids at least a half-dozen times before.

― s>c>, Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Wu-Tang Clan Corp's site has a weird message about the server crashing and losing all their data. . . strange.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

why do i feel like its true this time?

if so, rip odb

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Well it's definitely the kind of news that ahem I wouldn't be particularly shocked to hear.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

btw i think allhiphop got their date wrong there and that this item was actually only posted about 45 mins ago.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmn. Yeah it looks like you are right. All the other news items are in sequence.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently 105.1 fm in nyc is reporting the same. can anyone confirm?

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man, this sucks.

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck. I don't believe this yet.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't believe it either -- thus my question mark -- but at the same time, hmmm. I wouldn't be surprised, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

No way. No way.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Far and away the coolest member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Respect is due.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The show wouldn't have taken place last night if he had died. Anyone know anyone who was planning to go?

― Sam Hunt (robosam), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh shit. I hope not. I was listening to Shimmy Shimmy Ya earlier today...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

He doesn't walk, he gets carried.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, see, I'm wondering about that. This could all be one weird-ass publicity stunt. (xpost)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

heard it on the radio
nooooooooooooooooooooooo

― lemin (lemin), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

oh godammit.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Hot 97 is playing several ODB cuts in a row. (I can't seem to listen online, but you can see what they're playing)

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Eep. :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

:_(

― jake b. (cerybut), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The AHH story has switched to a full obit now.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Radios play this all day every day"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn it -

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

it's true ... it's been announced on hot 97

;-(

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Nuh uh. No way. I still don't buy it. Can't be.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit. Ah no, not this, not this now.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

sad :(

does that mean that the Macy Gray thing is the last thing he released?

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck, no!!

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

what a fucking terrible year.

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

In October of 2000, the rapper was almost finished a stint in rehab when he made a run for it, spending a month as a fugitive, during which time he performed at the Hammerstein Ballroom in front of hundreds of stunned fans.
Whoa, that was four years ago already? Making a surprise appearance on stage, walking off, and becoming a fugitive again before he could be found or caught = coolest thing ever.
:(

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

no...... can't be

― nick.K (nick.K), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1493725/20041113/ol_dirty_bastard.jhtml?headlines=true

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, the apocalypse is surely nigh

― duke rough, Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Chest pains, ack! :(

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

MTV has a brief story up:

Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard died on Saturday (November 13) in New York, according to his spokesperson.

Sources close to ODB said he had been complaining of chest pains earlier in the day. No further details are available as of yet.

It's true, folks. It's true. :-/ (xpost)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

......................fucking hell.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

celeb-o-cide.

maybe they are all on a spaceship to mars as we speak.

actually. If one of those Mars landers found ODB on Mars i wouldn't be suprised.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm consistently amazed by this kind of silly hyperbole on ILM at the news of a death.

It's sad, but... come on.

― supercub, Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

This really, really sucks. "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" goes through my head about once a week. RIP, Big Baby Jesus.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll wait till Wednesday night to say RIP for Big Baby Jesus.

― oneneverknows, Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

that was an x-post, astoundingly enough

― seriously, Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe he died. I am really depressed now. RIP ODB...

― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit. RIP.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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Just not right.

I only found out last night when I flipped to MTV Base, who were doing an hour of awesome tracks on which he'd rapped, with an RIP note under their logo. Shed a couple tears. It took me the whole hour to find out the circumstances as Base were scrolling notes about his life on the screen during each song. Totally gutted, that's both 'Coldblooded' singers gone this year (Chappelle connection indeed). I can honestly say that Dirty was one of my musical heroes without any reservations, hesitations or caveats. I put Nigga Please on before going to sleep but had to switch it off eventually. Rest in peace, Dirt Dog.

http://prettymellow.org/voxpopuli/articles/04d/041115mtv.htm

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Popmatters.com's ODBituary.

I read earlier that lawyers have worked out that he's got seven kids: three by his wife and four others from 'out-of-wedlock relationships'.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

seven? i heard thirteen - disturbing either way

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

His wife (ex-wife) claims three, all with her.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

How many of his famous aliases did he actually record under?

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

From that 10 Reasons ODB was Cool piece:

"While we wouldn't recommend than anyone haphazardly spread their seed (and Jones did have his fair share of legal trouble over failure to pay child support), he should at least be given props for recognizing his paternity. In 1994, Dirty famously loaded his brood into a limo and made his way to the welfare office to collect food stamps — all while being tailed by an MTV camera crew."

Maybe I'm an old fogey, but I don't consider these actions cool.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't like that piece much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like this piece much. Who is this 'Robert Paul Reyes' tosspot, anyway?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got the Sussudio cover. Does anybody know how I can host it for free so's I can post it?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

You're taking money out of ODBs many children's mouths.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

jon caramanica:

http://villagevoice.com/issues/0446/caramanica.php

― chuck, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Who is this 'Robert Paul Reyes' tosspot, anyway?"

ha ha

"Robert Paul Reyes: I am a columnist for the Lynchburg Ledger."

which sadly is not to say that he's 100 percent wrong however.

― conquero, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

that was great, chuck

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

which sadly is not to say that he's 100 percent wrong however.

Yeah, well, there's a difference between right and having a good point.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/arts/music/17dirt.html?oref=login&hp

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

noodle: if you mail me the sussudio, I'LL host it.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay. On the way.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20041117/capt.nybm10411172223.obit_odb_death_nybm104.jpg

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, this SUSSUDIO IS THE SHIT.
I'll post here and on my blog and noodle you can link if you like.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Right.
Here it is then: ODB - "Sussudio"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 November 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Where is that from? The tag says it's a Wu-Tang B-side/unreleased cd, so is it a B-Side, or is it unreleased? Anyway, it's fantastic - I might play it this weekend, depending on many factors.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

As I understand it, this track is from an R+B tribute album for Phil COllins.
I shit you not.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I soulsought it ages ago, all I know is the tag that says it's from a compilation of Wu rarities. Good innit?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 18 November 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i always thought it was rubbish, considering what it could've been

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 18 November 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

anybody else noted the spooky coincidence of him dying right before his 36th birthday and his first album is titled Return To The 36 Chambers and has a movie sample saying "We have only 35 chambers. There is no 36..."

― &, Thursday, 18 November 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG HE WAS JESUS AFTER ALL!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 18 November 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK THAT, I CAN'T WAIT

― &, Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

anybody else noted the spooky coincidence of him dying right before his 36th birthday and his first album is titled Return To The 36 Chambers and has a movie sample saying "We have only 35 chambers. There is no 36..."
-- & (...), November 18th, 2004.

yeah i was just thinking that too.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

'NEW' OL' DIRTY BASTARD ALBUM ON THE WAY

The first posthumous OL’ DIRTY BASTARD album will be released in January.

But fans need not worry that Tupac-style vultures are already descending on the late rapper’s estate. The mixtape ‘Osirus’ was completed a month ago and always intended as New Year release.

The mix features 14 exclusive new tracks with a galaxy of producers including DJ Premier, The Heatmakers, Dame Grease, Chops and K-Def.

Human beatbox Rahzel from The Roots – currently working with former Faith No More mainman Mike Patton – also guests alongside Inspektah Deck, Killer Mike and Baby Sham.

‘Osirus’ will be released in the US on December 21, and in the UK on January 25. The UK version will, however, feature bonus track ‘Move Back’.

The tracklisting is:

* ’Rahzel Intro’
* ’Pop Shots’ (Wu Tang)
* ’Go Go Go’
* ’Fuck Y’All’
* ’Out Of Control’
* ’Stand Up’
* ’Run Dirty Run’
* ’Who Can Make It Happen Like Dirt?’
* ’High In The Clouds’
* ’Fire’
* ’Pussy Keep Calling’
* ’Down South’ feat Killer Mike
* ’Untitled’
* ’Caked Up’ feat Baby Sham
* ’If Y’All Want War’ feat Ghostface and Royal Flush
* Rahzel Skit

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 20 November 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Pussy Keep Calling

Sold.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 November 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The first posthumous OL’ DIRTY BASTARD album will be released in January.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 21 November 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I guess this should be mentioned:

An autopsy of rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard reveals his death by heart attack was due to "intoxication by the combined effects of cocaine and [the painkiller] Tramadol," according to Grace Burgess, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner's office.
Born Russell Jones, O.D.B. died on November 13th after collapsing suddenly in a New York recording studio just days short of his thirty-sixth birthday.

The wild card of the nine-man Wu-Tang Clan, at the time of his death, O.D.B. had completed a two-year prison sentence for a drug possesion and had been working towards his fourth solo album and Roc-A-Fella Records debut. Osirus, an album recorded during the rapper's last six months, will be released January 4th on JC Records, a label recently formed by his mother Cherry Jones and manager Jarred Weisfeld. A reality TV show, Stuck On Dirty, which wrapped filming in the weeks before O.D.B.'s death, will debut on Spike TV in early 2005.

O.D.B. is survived by mother, his wife and a reported thirteen children.

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

'osirus an album he recorded during his last six months...will be released january 4th'

and then one every year for the forseeable.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Six months, more like...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

puttin the O.D. in ODB

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The Osirus album is really good! Especially "Dirty Dirty."

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

really...? I'm suspicious. I never got that record that came out while he was in prison, with all those guest spots and collabs and remixes and whatnot.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

That record was really awful. This new one is more like his first solo album, the two highlights of the album for me are clearly going for a "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" sort of thing.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

http://mcwinkel.wd-tietze.de/images/oldirtybastard.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 14 November 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

God, a whole year. Yikes.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 14 November 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

three years ... RIP

;_; ;_; ;_;

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

Still missed

― Erock Zombie, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

I'm opening an upcoming DJ set with "Lift Ya Skirt." An amazing secret weapon. What an amazing artist...

― Tape Store, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

when I saw this thread title I immediately thought:

"Linguo.... dead?"

"Linguo IS dead"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

but yeah megaRIP

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

"He was a powerful general
the smell from his breath was Ballantine
I think it was the year 89
He stayed the freshest
Polo boots
Wallys with the colorful logos
He was comin' from Medina, we'd boost
up in A&S, slippin' and dippin'
The Bedstuy native
He used to beatbox
thousands would listen

Yo that was before the Wu got on
him and Allah, Just, and RZA
came to the Island one morn
nigga could dance to slow music
outdrink any nigga on the benches
while we hittin' reefer, he so loose
5 foot 7, a legend was born
Russell Ason Jones
I know him for his braids and lessons

A wise man with knowledge, 120
kept a flag on his chest
with his right hand
quick servin' you Remy
Yo let's toast to the fallen
lost, forgotten
Yo, if niggas can hear me
Roll up some broccoli

Ason, the heart of a lion
purified mind
the way he did it with a mic and some wine
I would never forget the days we would sit back
days I be all up in the crib, listenin'
holdin' a line
And yep
I just miss this nigga
And now I understand the meaning of love
when I kiss the nigga

― could it be that it was all so shipley? (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:49 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

man i had avoided the posthumous Osirus official mixtape because of how depressing the trials & tribulations of russell jones was

but this is pretty great

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 January 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

hmmm some of it is kinda depressing, some of the post jail (i think?) stuff he sounds kinda gruff and he's kinda bitter and gangsta sounding just gun talk and money talk, kinda grim tone that feel so "standard" for ODB

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 January 2012 00:34 (fourteen years ago)

pop shots

― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Friday, 20 January 2012 11:36 (fourteen years ago)

There's some good tracks on A Son Unique as well iirc

― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 20 January 2012 13:16 (fourteen years ago)

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