Remembering Ol' Dirty Bastard 10 Years Later: Rap Genius, Rap Cautionary Tale
The year 1993 is of the most revered in hip hop. The west coast brought the groovy portamento synth leads of G-funk to music’s forefront, with Dre’s Chronic and Snoop Doggy Dogg’s Doggystyle thundering through the speakers of every Jeep in America. In Staten Island, New York, eight emcees were dropping Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), widely regarded as one of the best and most influential hip hop albums of all time. And on Track 2, amid a Syl Johnson-prepared course of stammering horns, the world meets Russell Jones — a.k.a. Ol’ Dirty Bastard, a.k.a. Big Baby Jesus, a.k.a. Dirt McGirt, a.k.a. ODB. I’ll fuck ya ass up (Hut one, hut two, hut three, HUT) Ol’ Dirty Bastard, live and uncut Styles unbreakable, shatterproof To the young youth, ya wanna get gun? SHOOT BLAOW. How ya like me now? Don’t fuck the style Ruthless WILD Do ya wanna getcha teeth knocked the FUCK out? Wanna get on it like that, well then SHOUT Okay, look. Hip hop, at this point in time, was still clawing…
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