When we were doing “Rolling In The Deep,” even though the song itself was something we felt very comfortable with, we wanted the impact and feeling of the track to have a little bit of “Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes. But for the bridges, we were trying to make the piano sound like “Brooklyn Zoo” by Ol’ Dirty Bastard. And when it came to the whole feeling of her vocal relationship to the track, we thought most like Cee Lo Green and Nina Simone. So those were the kinds of elements that were going into our thought process of how the song should come together in terms of production aesthetic and technique.

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“Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Return To The 36 Chambers Re-Released As Wallet Box”

J-Zone unearths rare footage of the elder Wu-Tang Clansmen recorded circa ’91 for a public access show. Gza rips with ODB on the beatbox, classic. No word on who the 4th man in the hat is.

Rare 90s footage of hip-hop artists debating issues surrounding police brutality. In this segment (3 of 5) Jeru defends his tendency to label all white people as his enemy. Lauryn counters with her belief that economic empowerment is the means to real change. Peep all segments and you’ll come across Jeru The Damaja, Lauryn Hill, Method Man, Frankie Cutlass, Irv Gotti and more.

Crazy Sam’s official youtube channel has a lot of nuggets for fans highlighting his humor and community activism. After the jump Sammy Mack and the late ODB go on about ex-President Bush.

ODB & Crazy Sam: Pres Bush, we got love for you n***a!!

CratesOfJR shares this audio of Ol’ Dirty Bastard on Hot 97 promoting for his first solo lp.

Mariah Carey – The Roof ft. Prodigy, Havoc, Big Noyd

Mariah Carey – Honey (remix) ft. Mase, The Lox

Mariah Carey – Obsessed (remix) ft. Gucci Mane

don’t front on the girl. and who can ever forget how she was front and center the day Ol’ Dirty Bastard got out.

That’s how the ferry looked in ’93.

Off the ‘Message To The Other Side’ album, coming out via Money Maker

Ol Dirty Bastard – Say NO

Pretty sure this is an Ol’ Dirty Bastard verse I never heard before.

Mathematics – Early Grave ft. Bad Luck, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard

via a bootleggin’ ass blog. google it or something.

All in together now. Catalog runs deep.

peace to vega

No, none of those women in the pic are Karen O (at least I don’t think so). This has been touted as the final recorded track by Ol’ Dirty Bastard. via pma, by way of urb

N.A.S.A. ft. Karen O, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, & Fatlip – Strange Enough

“the rapper would “talk in jive talk” and “come into court with two different shoes, labels with price tags attached”.
He adds, “It’s possible his behaviour was a result of mental illness. One time he had his hat on backward, had on two different shoes, and he stood with his back to the judge with his hat facing the judge as if he was looking at the judge.”

Here is the full letter from his mom, courtesy of mvremix

The following is a letter Cherry Jones, Ol’s Dirty Bastard’s mom, would like to release to the media (in her own words) -

Four years ago today marks one of the most tragic days in my life when I lost my son Rusty whom many of you know as Ol’ Dirty Bastard. For the past four years I have sat back and watched certain individuals try and tarnish my sons beliefs. My son loved every single one of his children and every single one of their mothers and provided for them all the best he could when he was alive. My son was an extremely generous soul. In the past four years, my daughter has portrayed me very poorly in law, Icelene. While I am very upset with my daughter in law’s false remarks towards me, I am more upset by the way the other children Rusty had fathered and cherished are not being taken care of properly. I am also outraged that it appears Icelene has been diverting money away from the other children and taking out personal loans against Rusty’s Estate Assets. She has gone through numerous attorneys and her new attorneys have racked up numerous amounts of legal fees and have accomplished nothing. The fans want my son’s last album, which they are not allowing Koch to drop.

I’m not a lawyer or a judge but the children’s attorney, the Estates lawyer Donald David and Jeremy Shure and the Judge Margarita Lopez Toress seem to have no interest in stopping Icelene from looting the estate. In fact many of the mothers have recently hired their own attorney’s for the children because some of them felt that the attorney that Judge Margarita Lopez Torres appointed for them wasn’t properly representing their children. He hasn’t showed up at depositions, he hasn’t done anything to protect my grandchildren. How can you allow someone who has spent over six figures and taken out personal loans against estate assets to continue? Even the bonding company who bonds the Estate is fighting to get out because of the fraud she has committed on the Estate.

It also troubles me that Ferrar and Strauss, a division of Macmillan, are publishing a book about my son’s life. After my son got out of prison, Dirty’s manager, Jarred Weisfeld, and I received a call that Rolling Stone wanted to do an interview with Dirty. We said ok and allowed the person to interview him. She came back for one more interview, which took place at a concert. The article never appeared in Rolling Stone however it did appear in The Village Voice. After my son passed this author who knew my son for only a few hours decided to write a book and asked Jarred and myself to take part in it. We declined and asked that she not use any part of the interview she conducted with my son, in her book, but she did. I am asking all of Dirty’s fans to boycott this book as none of the proceeds are going to his children and this authors motives and intentions seem to be to disgrace my son’s legacy.

Also, quotes from lawyer, Robert Shapiro, in yesterday’s newspaper, are shameful. The fact that an attorney who represented my son for less than a minute, would comment and speculate on my son’s health to get his name in print is disgraceful. The world knows that Robert Shapiro was not really my son’s attorney and his real attorney was like a second father to him and his name is Peter Frankel, one of the only people who went above and beyond the call of duty for my son and whom I love dearly for that.

I hope next year my son’s final album will be released for the 5th Anniversary of his passing. It pains me to have to write this on the day of his passing but I needed to address this.

I know my son would have been at that rally in Chicago when the first African American President was elected and I’m sure he would have gone up on stage and grabbed the microphone as only he could.

Lastly today is a very sad day not only for me but also for my entire family including Dirty’s father and his siblings and children. I will always love my son Rusty and I will always make sure all of his children are taken care of.

His loving mother, Cherry Jones

4 years since his passing. Apparently Dante Ross was behind this guest appearance:

I actually hooked this up my friend was a booker on the short lived Jon Stewart show and was a ODB fan. I got my 3 awesome friends the infamous uber stylist Lysa Cooper , her side kick DJ Belinda Becker and my friends ex wife Tequana and they put together a little Supremes like back up dance routine and off to the races we went. This was a fun ass day and Jon Stewart was super cool he smoked a little weed with me and the girls after the show and told us how much he loved ODB. He was cool as fuck and this was a great great day Dirty had his kids running around, my publicist at the label was super psyched and I knew Dirty was gonna blow….

Old Dirty Bastard Rhyming Over Broken Language – 1996

Pretty sure this has made the rounds but we never threw it up for some reason. via BXRap