STILL DIRTY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS: Ladies and gentlemen, Ol' Dirty Bastard is a free man again.
The fomer Wu-Tang Clan member had spent two years in upstate New York on felony drug possession charges, and most recently was placed in a Manhattan mental institution as officials questioned his fitness to return to society.
(Dirty's? Naw. Not the man who had bum-rushed the Grammys stage in 1998 while poor Shawn Colvin was accepting an award in order to protest Puff Daddy's win for best rap album, noting, "I went and bought me an outfit today that cost me a lot of money, 'cos I figured that Wu-Tang was gonna win. I don't know how you all see it, but when it comes to the children, Wu-Tang is for the children," only to get overshadowed by Soy Bomb in our collective memory of the event.)
ODB had been arrested at the Grays Ferry McDonalds (not far from Penn's campus) while on the lam from drug treatment. Philadelphia Weekly recently hailed that McDonald's (yes, I'm digressing) as one of the 103 things it loved most about Philadelphia (#28).
Anyway, born Russell Jones, the ODB has abandoned his name, plus former nom-de-lyrics Osiris and Big Baby Jesus, and would henceforth like to be known as Dirt McGirt. In addition he has signed a new deal with Roc-A-Fella Records, and is also being tailed by a VH-1 camera crew for a reality series, tentatively titled “On Parole With ODB.”
Portions of Mr. McGirt's press conference are available via this link, and you can read more about his past run-ins with the law through this article.
Let's all welcome ODB back to free society. I'm guessing, though, that Wendy's is more his thing these days . . .
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