Remember ODB? Mi peeps in the 90s, may his soul rest in peace, see above his music collaboration with Mariah Carey. The Dirty Version (Harper Collins $25.99) by Buddha Monk and Mickey Hess is the biography of the deceased MC known as Ol’ Dirty Bastard from the Wu-Tang Clan.
If you remember him (and of course you do), you recall the wild dude singing, dancing and acting a fool all over the place; he was mesmerizing. Buddha Monk his childhood friend, manager, handler and go to partner-in-music captured all of that and the historic rise of Wu-Tang here. What he truly relays is the humanity of the man born Russell Tyrone Jones.
“Dirty… had a way of talking to people in general that would bring them around to his way of thinking. You don’t hear about Dirty being a peace-keeper, but Dirt could talk a ni**a with a gun down in a second.” Monk captures that charisma and charm, but also the joy and pain that fame brought ODB, as well as the drugs, the women and the demise. It’s a great work in honour of an individual who tried to walk the best line he could.
If you remember him (and of course you do), you recall the wild dude singing, dancing and acting a fool all over the place; he was mesmerizing. Buddha Monk his childhood friend, manager, handler and go to partner-in-music captured all of that and the historic rise of Wu-Tang here. What he truly relays is the humanity of the man born Russell Tyrone Jones.
“Dirty… had a way of talking to people in general that would bring them around to his way of thinking. You don’t hear about Dirty being a peace-keeper, but Dirt could talk a ni**a with a gun down in a second.” Monk captures that charisma and charm, but also the joy and pain that fame brought ODB, as well as the drugs, the women and the demise. It’s a great work in honour of an individual who tried to walk the best line he could.
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