Yahoo! Music - Sep 28, 2006
Ol Dirty Bastard s final album is to be released, it has been announced. The former Wu-Tang Clan rapper is believed to have completed A Son Unique just before he died, almost two years ago. The album...
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Rapper Ol Dirty Bastard, who died in a recording studio last month at the age of 35, had taken cocaine and a prescription pain relief drug before his collapse, the Medical Examiner s office said on Wednesday...
More »AP - Dec 15, 2004
The death of rapper O.D.B. was deemed an accident by the medical examiner, who said Wednesday that he died from the combined effects of cocaine and a prescription painkiller. O.D.B., whose legal name...
More »Reuters - Nov 13, 2004
Rapper Ol Dirty Bastard, whose criminal lifestyle and strange behavior overshadowed his work as one of the founding members of rap collective Wu-Tang Clan, collapsed and died in New York Saturday, his...
More »AP - Nov 13, 2004
The rap artist O.D.B., who lived a life as wild as his lyrics, collapsed and died inside a recording studio Saturday, his record label said. He was 35. O.D.B. had complained of chest pains before collapsing...
More »USRN - Aug 8, 2003
(8/8/03, 10 a.m. ET) -- Rapper Ol Dirty Bastard (ODB), who now goes by the name Dirt McGirt, is the latest celebrity guest photographer to shoot pictures for Playboy magazine. The rapper recently shot...
More »USRN - May 13, 2003
(5/13/03, 4 p.m. ET) -- Ol Dirty Bastard, or ODB, who was released from a mental hospital on May 2 after serving two years in prison for felony drug possession charges, has released two new songs to radio...
More »USRN - May 2, 2003
(5/2/03, 7 a.m. ET) -- Ol Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones) now known as Dirt McGirt, who was just released from a Manhattan mental hospital, has inked a new recording contract with Roc-A-Fella Records....
More »USRN - Apr 2, 2003
(4/2/03, 5 p.m. ET) -- Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol Dirty Bastard, who has been incarcerated since November of 2000, was recently released from an upstate New York prison. However, the rapper was transferred...
More »USRN - Dec 20, 2001
(12/20/01, 1 p.m. ET) -- RZA, Inspectah Deck, U-God, and Ol Dirty Bastard (ODB) of the Wu-Tang Clan and newcomers North Star, Black Knights, and Solomon Childs are among the many artists featured on the...
More »USRN - Oct 8, 2001
(10/8/01, 6 p.m. ET) -- Ol Dirty Bastard is expected to release his next album, The Trials And Tribulations Of Russell Jones, in March 2002 on D3 Entertainment. The album, will feature collaborations...
More »USRN - Jul 18, 2001
(7/18/01, 4 p.m. ET) -- Ol Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones) of the Wu-Tang Clan was sentenced to two-to-four years in state prison for criminal possession of a controlled substance today (July 18). In April...
More »USRN - Apr 20, 2001
(4/20/01, 5 p.m. ET) -- Ol Dirty Bastard (ODB) pleaded guilty to the charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance as part of a plea agreement in New York s Queens State Supreme Court on Thursday...
More »USRN - Mar 21, 2001
(3/21/01, 4 p.m. ET) -- Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol Dirty Bastard (born Russell Jones) has to decide in the next two weeks whether or not to accept a plea deal that would send him to prison for four years....
More »USRN - Nov 28, 2000
(11/28/00, 3 p.m. ET) - Rapper Ol Dirty Bastard, who made headlines in 1999 when he was arrested in both New York and Los Angeles within a three-day period, has been arrested yet again. The Wu-Tang Clan...
More »USRN - Nov 15, 2000
(11/15/00, 4 p.m. ET) - The Wu-Tang Clan dedicates its new album to estranged member Ol Dirty Bastard, who is currently on the run from police and who was largely unavailable while the group was recording...
More »USRN - Oct 26, 2000
(10/26/00, 4 p.m. ET) - News of Ol Dirty Bastard s escape last week from the Pasadena, California, in-patient drug treatment center he was ordered into has shocked some and saddened others. The rapper...
More »USRN - Oct 25, 2000
(10/25/00, 6 p.m. ET) - The Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated rapper known as Ol Dirty Bastard is in trouble again. The MC fled last week from the Pasadena, California, drug treatment facility he had been ordered...
More »USRN - Sep 25, 2000
(9/25/00, 6 p.m. ET) - Rapper Ol Dirty Bastard, aka Russell Jones, got a reprieve of sorts Thursday (September 21) from the Los Angeles Superior Court. The Wu-Tang Clan member appeared in court with a...
More »USRN - Jun 26, 2000
(6/26/00, 6 p.m. ET) - The Wu-Tang Clan is getting together and heading out on the road for a summer tour scheduled to begin July 24 in State College, Pennsylvania. However, much beleaguered Wu-Tang member...
More »USRN - Jun 23, 2000
(6/24/00, 10 a.m. ET) - Wu-Tang Clan member Ol Dirty Bastard has been sentenced to a 180-day stint in a California drug treatment facility for his probation violations. Born Russell Jones, ODB will be...
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