Today marks 21 years since we lost O.D.B.

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Heartbreaking loss.

Because he had a run where he was supposed to be getting back on track, and healthy. And I remember Dame was trying to keep him away from bad influences and they had a whole special on TV documenting his comeback.

RZA said after he got locked up, he wasn't the same anymore and he lost his direction and vision in life because of the drugs. He said he was having a talk with Dirty the night he died and he told RZA that he "didn't understand", and RZA said he passed away like 8 hours later. Really really sad sh*t.
 
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Heartbreaking loss.

Because he had a run where he was supposed to be getting back on track, and healthy. And I remember Dame was trying to keep him away from bad influences and they had a whole special on TV documenting his comeback.

RZA said after he got locked up, he wasn't the same anymore and he lost his direction and vision in life because of the drugs. He said he was having a talk with Dirty the night he died and he told RZA that he "didn't understand", and RZA said he passed away like 8 hours later. Really really sad sh*t.
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It really is

I remember when after he signed with Roc-a-fella Records and he was on both Rap City and 106th and Park talking about new music and his clothing line, Dirt Mcgirt

I wish he could’ve had a Gucci type of resurgence.

I remember that Vh1 doc and thinking he needed some time out of the spotlight to get his mind right and slowly work his way back into society with some therapy.

Yeah, I remember RZA saying his goal was to help his focus on his health, give him a million dollars and make the best album they could

What’s crazy is when I think back on his nikka Please album, that album sort of felt like a posthumous release because Dirty wasn’t around to promote that when it came out because he was already in rehab. Then after escaping rehab he was on the run and then jail.

Going back to the Return to the 36 Chambers, what’s so brilliant about that album was how he was on some “I’m going back to the essence of this Wu shyt, imma give y’all the groups first album again but this time with my spin of it”

Like who does that? :mindblown:


Dirty was 1 of 1. An original
 
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It really is

I remember when after he signed with Roc-a-fella Records and he was on both Rap City and 106th and Park talking about new music and his clothing line, Dirt Mcgirt

I wish he could’ve had a Gucci type of resurgence.

I remember that Vh1 doc and thinking he needed some time out of the spotlight to get his mind right and slowly work his way back into society with some therapy.

Yeah, I remember RZA saying his goal was to help his focus on his health, give him a million dollars and make the best album they could

What’s crazy is when I think back on his nikka Please album, that album sort of felt like a posthumous release because Dirty wasn’t around to promote that when it came out because he was already in rehab. Then after escaping rehab he was on the run and then jail.

Going back to the Return to the 36 Chambers, what’s so brilliant about that album was how he was on some “I’m going back to the essence of this Wu shyt, imma give y’all the groups first album again but this time with my spin of it”

Like who does that? :mindblown:


Dirty was 1 of 1. An original
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Definitely a 1of 1.

Serious legend.

I still listen to his first album all the time. I played myself and slept on N*gga Please, when it dropped.

Now, I play that one just as much as the first, lol.
 
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Awesome Wells said:
Definitely a 1of 1.

Serious legend.

I still listen to his first album all the time. I played myself and slept on N*gga Please, when it dropped.

Now, I play that one just as much as the first, lol.
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I've said before that it's wild how Dirt fukked around and gave us two classics. I play both those first two at least a few times a year :yes:

:rip:
 
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I love Wu-Tang, they're by far my favorite collective and that whole 90's run shaped me so much, I don't have the words for it. I also think their post Forever group albums get a bad rep, which isn't helped by the annual rounds of Rae and Ghost shytting on them.

With all that said, losing ODB made them go from uniquely elite to just great. There's a lack of SPIRIT which at first Rza tried to make up for with features (Snoop, Flavor Flag, Nas etc) and later just accepted.

A true unique, who actually had a insanely dope flow when he felt like it.

Gza "I can name 10 rappers who stole an element"

My favorite ODB song is actually one where he doesn't wild out at all:

 
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