'''Ol' Contaminated Bastard, born Russell Tyrone Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004), also referred to as ODB, Dirt McGirt, Dirt Run, Ason Unique, Osirus & Large Little one Jesus', was an African American rapper and member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Too when being well-referred to as one of a virtually all distinctive hip hop creative person of the 1990s, he became notorious for his condition-plagued personal life & erratic public behavior.

Biography
Russell Jones founded a Wu-Tang Clan inside 1992 with his cousins, a RZA, and a GZA (with whom he experienced antecedently comprised the underground trio Inflict Of a Imperial Master, which when became referred to as the Bushed Together At present Crew after it got a successful underground lone of that title). A full cousin before long added hexad other friends & associates to the Kinship group, & freed their debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)'' in 1993 (1993 in music). Virtually all of the members of the class action received single praise from either critics & fans for their contributions to the album, however Ol' Contaminated became mayhap a virtually all easily-known member of the class action in the aftermath of its release. Armed by having the on the face of it half-crazed, thick, typically off-beat half-sung half-rapped delivery, bizarre lyrics & humourous joke that were unlike anything ever heard prior to around rap (his rap title comes from either a claim that "he has no father to his style"), he encapsulated & come to be a raw, unadulterated & innovative style of the class action as a whole. A 36 Chambers album received tremendous critical praise, & is today regarded when one of a right & virtually all influential albums of any genre to exist as freed in the 1990s, when well as one of a better hep hop albums ever. [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/A890.htm]

ODB's solo career began inside 1995, the 2nd member of the Wu-Tang Clan to release the solo album, charted Method Man's 1994 effort, Tical. Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, released in March 28, 1995, spawned a hit singles Brooklyn Zoological garden & Shimmy Shimmy Ya, & powered a album to gold status. A album's healthy wwhen when raw & gritty as 36 Chambers, producer RZA creating beats potentially supplementary minimalist & stripped-stripped than on the class action's debut, which put a revolve about ODB's crazed put-on. That equivalent month, he was featured on the remix of Mariah Carey's hit single "Fantasy", the foremost popular pop-R&B/hip-hop collaboration that has inspired the trend in modern music. In the area of this instance, he gained ill fame whenever, when he was existence profiled for an MTV biography, he took two of his baker's dozen kids by limousine to a New York State welfare office to pick higher his welfare check while his latest album was however in the top decade of the Usa stock and index charts. A entire incident was filmed by an MTV camera crew and was broadcasted countrywide. A incident would yet produce #22 in Spin Magazine's list of Music's Centred Sleaziest moments. [http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1436858/08292000/id_0.jhtml] Around 1997, the rapper appeared on the Wu-Tang Clan's 2nd & virtually all commercially successful album, Wu-Tang Forever. However, he wwhen non as present on the class action's second-year LP when in its foremost; he contributed the solo track titled "Dog Shit" too when hooks ("As High As Wu-Tang Get") & spoken introductions ("Triumph"), however more than these appearances & featuring conspicuously on the song "Maria" besides when redeeming the super short verse in "Heaterz", he was absentminded.

Within February 1998, after ODB found a car accident from either the window of his Brooklyn recording studio, he & the friend ran to the accident scene & organized all about a xii looker-on world health organization assisted around lifting the 1996 Ford Mustang—rescuing a Four-month-old girl from either a wreckage. She was taken to the hospital using 2nd & third degree burns. ODB, applying the false name, visited the girl in the hospital often until he was spotted by members of the media.

A as a result nighttime at a Grammy Awards, Ol' Dirty Bastard rushed onstage unexpectedly in the period of Shawn Colvin's acceptance speech for "Song of the Year" and began complaining that he had recently purchased expensive fabric around anticipation of winning a "Best Rap Album" award that he lost to Puff Daddy. Prior to existence escorted off-stage, he implored a audience, "I don't know how you all see it, but when it comes to the children, Wu-Tang is for the children. We teach the children. Puffy is good, but Wu-Tang is the best. I want you all to know that this is ODB, and I love you all. Peace!" His flakey onstage caper were widely reported in the mainstream media. Inside April 1998, he announced his newly stage title, Heavy Little one Jesus, however was never suspire to give the ordered explanation for the super brief switch.

Within 1999, he found period to release Nigga Please between jail sentences, which received tremendously profits & was potentially other bizarrely warped than his debut. This release involved a only "Got Your Money" which became highly successful in the United states of america & elsewhere; it was by The Neptunes, and its profits would help when one of a production class action's independent stepping stones to the superstardom it would achieve in the 21st century. Too when a Neptunes, a individual likewise put singer Kelis, who sang a chorus, in the map; she went on to have a successful solo career. Around 2001, by using Contaminated once more within clink for crack cocain possession, Ol' Contaminated's record company Elektra Records made the guide to release the greatest hits album (despite there existence lone 2 albums inside ODB's back catalogue) sequentially to two prevent their locate a undependable, disruptive creative person too when produce a select few money off a publicity generated by his legal troubles. When a locate Elektra was terminated, a label D-Three records freed a album "The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones" inside 2002, comprised of tracks put together forgoing Ol' Contaminated's input using the vocals he experienced recorded before his capture by authorities. A label recruited numerous guests including many Wu-Tang Clan affiliates, No Limit Records artist C-Murder, and a Insane Clown Posse. But, a album was critically panned & sales were unfortunate.

A season 2003 brought a vary in the life of Ol' Contaminated Bastard notwithstanding. A day he was freed from either prison, with Mariah Carey and Damon Dash by his side, Dirty signed the locate Roc-a-Fella Records, and began the newly chapter around his life. Dwelling at his mother's page under house arrest and with the court-ordered probation hanging over his head, he managed to star around the VH1 reality television series. He likewise managed to record the fresh album, (to become) freed within 2005 on his new label.

He experienced stated that he likewise plotted in collaborating by owning creative person in A electronic musical genre, like Mass murder & The Debacle, Fischerspooner, and possibly even Massive Attack.

Legal troubles
Inside 1993, he was convicted of 2nd degree assault for an attempted robbery and in 1994, he was shot in the stomach as a result an argument by owning an additional rapper.

Within 1997, he was arrested for failure to pay child support for three of his 13 toddlers. His married woman, Icelene Jones, claimed he hadn't paid any trend lines inside all over a year. Within 1998, he pled hangdog to attempted assault in his married woman & was the victim of a home invasion robbery at his girlfriend's house. He was shot in a back & arm however the wounds were superficial.

Around 1999, he was arrested for shoplifting a pair of $50 shoes in Virginia Beach, Virginia, although he was carrying close to $500 at a instance. He was arrested for criminal threatening after a series of bibulous confrontations inside Los Angeles a few weeks later, & was so re-in remission for similar charges shortly fallowing that.

When you took a routine traffic prevent, the details of which remainside clouded in multiple versions of cases, he was arrested for attempted murder and criminal weapon possession. A pack was late dismissed.

Around February 1999, he was arrested for camping forgoing the license & for existence the convicted felon wearing a bulletproof vest (the foremost human arrested for this offense under the newly California law). Back within Just released York weeks late, he was arrested for drug possession of crack cocaine and for traffic offenses. Sustaining multiple legal actions it used to be that & present, he was arrested by owning marijuana and 20 ampul of crack. When his arrest, ODB reportedly asked a law to "make the rocks disappear". In the period of the court hearing, he another time known as the female prosecuting attorney the "sperm donor." [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20041113-2317-people-bastard.html]

ODB entered rehab while still technically the fugitive from either the law however unknown behavior in the cycle of the subsequent court date sent him to clink for a brief period.

Within October 2000, he escaped from his court-mandated drug professional assistance facility & spent 1 year as a fugitive. He appeared at the record release person for The W, a Wu-Tang Clan album. He was inside the future arrested in the Philadelphia McDonald's parking lot and extradited to New York City. The Manhattan court sentenced him to two to four years captivity. Mental problems resulted within the suicide attempt not long fallowing his sentencing.

Around Will 2003, Russell Jones was freed from either prison.

Death
Russell Jones collapsed at about 4:35pm in November 13, 2004 at Wu-Tang's recording studio (36 Records LLC on West 34th Street inside New York City). He was pronounced dead to a lesser degree an hour in the future, sole deuce years shy of his 36th birthday. He was buried at Brooklyn's Christian Cultural Center.

The statement was freed in Saturday (November 13) evening by his mother Cherry Jones:

The statement was likewise freed by Damon Dash, world health organization signed ODB to Divergence-The-Fella Records in the Fall of 2004:

A reason of dying remained unknown until December 15, 2004; although he reportedly complained of chest pains prior to collapsing, a heart attack wwhen non used as the stimulate of demise. inside the period of the initial postmortem examination of the 35-season-old rapper, a two-fold polymer bag containing cocain was found in his tummy [http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21186.htm]. Resultant from either an autopsy show he had a deadly mixture of cocain & the guide pain pill Tramadol in his system at a period of his demise, which was ruled an accidental overdose per Future York Medical Examiner's Professional. [http://www.livedaily.com/news/7457.html?t=77]

Discography
Albums

1995 Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version 1999 Nigga Please 2001 ''The Dirty Story: The Best of Ol' Dirty Bastard (compilation) 2002 The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones 2005 Osirus 2005 The Definitive Ol' Dirty Bastard Story (compilation) 2005 A Son Unique

Singles & EPs

1995 Brooklyn Zoo 1995 Shimmy Shimmy Ya 1999 Had Your systems Money (effort. Kelis)

Appears On

1993 Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers (album by the Wu-Tang Clan) 1995 Nuttin' However Flavor (Funkmaster Flex single) 1995 "Show & Prove" (from the Big Daddy Kane album Daddy's Home) 1995 "Duel Of The Iron Mic" (from either a GZA album Liquid Swords) 1995 "Fantasy" (from the Mariah Carey album Daydream) 1996 "Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check (Remix)" (lone by Busta Rhymes) 1997 Wu-Tang Forever (album by the Wu-Tang Clan) 1997 "Hip Hop Drunkies" (from either a Alkaholiks album Likwidation'') 1998 "If You Don't Know" (from either a Killah Priest album Heavy Mental) 1998 "Shining Star" (from either a Sunz Of Man album The Last Shall Be First) 1998 "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" (with Pras and Mya, from a Bulworth soundtrack) 1999 "Bitches" (from either a Insane Clown Posse album The Amazing Jeckel Brothers) 1999 "Prepare For The Buddha Monk" (from either a Popa Wu album Visions Of The Tenth Chamber) 1999 "Kiss Of A Black Widow" (from either a RZA album Bobby Digital In Stereo) 1999 "Crash Your Crew" (from either a GZA album Beneath The Surface) 2000 "Violence" (from either a Cam'ron album S.D.E.) 2000 "Conditioner" (from either a Wu-Tang Clan album The W) 2001 "Black Widow Pt. 2" (from either a RZA album Digital Bullet) 2003 "Pop Shit" (from either The Neptunes album The Neptunes Present... Clones) 2003 "We Pop" (from either a RZA album Birth Of A Prince) 2004 "Some Girls (Dance With Women)" (bonus remix of a first individual off the JC Chasez album Schizophrenic) 2004 Disciples of the 36 Chambers: Chapter 1 (album by the Wu-Tang Clan) 2004 "Old Man" (from either a Masta Killa album No Said Date) 2005 "Break That" (from either a Mathematics album The Problem)