About Ol' Dirty Bastard
Russell Tyrone Jones, known professionally as Ol' Dirty Bastard, was an American rapper who was one of the founding members of the New York rap group Wu-Tang Clan, formed in 1992. Jones also released music as a solo artist beginning with Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995). He was noted for his "outrageously profane, free-associative rhymes delivered in a distinctive half-rapped, half-sung style". His first solo album, Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, spawned the hit singles "Brooklyn Zoo" and "Shimmy Shimmy Ya", which helped propel the album to platinum status. In February 1998, Ol' Dirty Bastard witnessed a car accident from the window of his Brooklyn recording studio. In 1999, Ol' Dirty Bastard wrote and recorded his second studio album, Nigga Please, between jail sentences.
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