NY Boston Fan

Was saddened and surprised, but perhaps I shouldn't have been, to see Russell Jones a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard a.k.a. Osiris a.k.a. Big Baby Jesus a.k.a. Dirt McGirt, pass away earlier this week.

He certainly wasn't a role model, and he lived a wild life, but his first album remains one of my favorites, and as crazy as he was, he probably was some sort of genius.

My last memory of him, (sort of) will be during a Chappelle Show skit when RZA from Wu-Tang made the announcement, that from here on out, Ol' Dirty Bastard will be known as "Ol' Dirty Chinese Restaurant."

I never did get to see him live, as the only Wu-Tang show I have been to happened to coincide with O.D.B.'s last stint in prison.

His first verse, on Wu-Tang's first album:

Yo...!I come with that ol' loco
Style from my vocal
Couldn't peep it with a pair of bi-focals
I'm no joker! Play me as a joker
Be on you like a house on fire! Smoke ya!
Crews be actin like they gangs, anyway
Be like, "Warriors! Come out and playiyay!"
Burn me, I get into s**t, I let it out like diarrhea
Got burnt once, but that was only gonorrhea
Dirty, I keep s**t stinks in my drawers
So I can get fzza-funky for yah
Murder, taste the flame of the Wu-Tang
RAHH!Here comes the Tiger verse Crane!
Ow, be like wild with my style
Punk! You playing me, chump, you get DUMPED
WU! Is comin THROUGH! At a theatre near YOU!
And get funk like a SHOE!
What?!