Ol' Dirty Bastard

Musician

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The Profile

Russell Tyrone Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004) was an American rapper and co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, known for a raw, eccentric vocal style and a career marked by both influential music and legal troubles.

Co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan (with cousins RZA and GZA); acclaimed solo albums include Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995) and Nigga Please (1999); died November 13, 2004; a posthumous mixtape, The Osirus Mixtape, was released in 2005. Famous tracks include 'Shimmy Shimmy Ya' and 'Brooklyn Zoo'.

Two DeBaser reviews praise Ol' Dirty Bastard as an original, influential Wu-Tang co-founder known for a chaotic, intoxicating vocal style. Reviewers highlight Return to the 36 Chambers and the posthumous Osirus mixtape. Overall reception in these reviews is strongly positive.

Notable Quotes

❝ Russel Tyrone Jones was one of the most influential figures in hip-hop: cousin to the genius RZA and together with him, the founder of the seminal collective Wu-Tang Clan, an innovative and unconventional MC, a disorderly and rebellious personality.

❝ Russell Jones, known as Ol’ Dirty Bastard, the most absurd and controversial member (and co-founder along with his cousins RZA & GZA) of the Wu-Tang Clan, died on November 13, 2004, at the age of 35, due to an overdose.