Ol’ Dirty Bastard (Wu-Tang Clan Chapter 8): An Attempted Murder Rap, Bloodthirsty Rottweilers, and Self-Immolation
DISGRACELAND
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🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ol’ Dirty Bastard once saved a four-year old girl who was trapped under a Ford Mustang. He took a limo with an MTV news crew to collect his welfare check. He was charged with attempted murder of an NYPD officer. Chased by bloodthirsty Rottweilers. Shot by men in ski masks. His fame led to an addiction to cocaine, and that addiction led to ten arrests in the span of a few months. He was granted a weekend furlough from a rehab facility but went AWOL and wound up on the lam. Before long he wound up in Dannemora, aka Clinton Correctional Facility, aka Little Siberia, a maximum security prison in upstate New York, where he had to go to extreme lengths just to stay sane – and to survive.
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| 0:00.0 | Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. |
| 0:19.7 | The stories about Wutane clans, old dirty bastard, are insane. |
| 0:25.6 | He once saved a four-year-old girl who was trapped under a Ford Mustang. |
| 0:30.3 | He took a limo with an MTV news crew to collect his welfare check. |
| 0:34.8 | He was charged with attempted murder of an NYPD officer, chased by bloodthirsty Rottweilers, |
| 0:41.6 | shot by men in ski mass. His fame led to an addiction to cocaine, and that addiction led to |
| 0:48.4 | 10 arrests in the span of a few months. He was granted a weekend furlough from a rehab facility, |
| 0:55.8 | but went AWOL and wound up on the lamb. |
| 0:59.5 | As his cousin, the Rizza, once said, |
| 1:01.8 | there was no line between life and art for old dirty bastard. |
| 1:08.0 | And though his increasingly troubled life came to Eclipse's art, ODB did make great music. |
| 1:16.6 | He was Wu-Tang's secret weapon, a blend of drunken old-school R&B and raw gonzo rap, which had |
| 1:23.6 | very little precedent in which changed hip-hop forever. Unlike that clip I played for you at |
| 1:30.1 | the top of the show, that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop for my Melotron called Aft or Stern |
| 1:37.9 | MK2. I played you that clip because I can't afford the rights to You Remind Me by Usher. |
| 1:47.2 | And why would I play you that specific slice of headstand dance cheese could I afford it? |
| 1:54.0 | Because that was the number one song in America on July 18th, 2001. |
| 2:06.4 | And that was the day that old dirty bastard was sent to a maximum security state prison, |
| 2:11.2 | where he was brutally attacked, set on fire, and nearly died. |
| 2:18.7 | On this episode, a Ford Mustang, welfare checks, Rottweiler's, ski masks, |
| 2:20.0 | maximum security, |
| 2:21.9 | and Wu-Tang Clan's old dirty bastard. |
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