Ol, Dirty, and Stinkin

Now you know nothin- before you knew a whole fuckin lot
Your ass don't wanna get shot!
A lot of MCs came to my showdown
To watch me put your fuckin ass loooooow down

The SG honors the two-year passing of Ol’ Dirty Bastard by looking at the Top Ten moments/songs/misc from the life of Russell Jones:

1- “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”- Yes, it’s his biggest song and best video (what other MC has kicked it in his freakin boxer shorts.)

2- Escapes from rehab- Dirt McGirt escapes from his confines and eludes the cops for a month. He turns up at a Wu show, promotes their album, and is eventually arrested signing autographs in a McDonald’s parking lot. He must’ve loved their Filet O’ Fish.

3- Showtunes- During “Goin Down” from his first CD he breaks into “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” If you’re puffing herb and jamming this CD and hear this verse, you’ll be like “damn, I need to quit smoking this shit.”

4- “Hip Hop Drunkies”- The Alkaholiks and Big Baby Jesus? That’s Pat Robertson’s worst nightmare.

5- 33 years old and still on welfare- During an infamous MTV clip, Osirus rolls in a limo to the NY Welfare department to pick up his check.

6- “Show and Prove”- This track on Big Daddy Kane’s Daddy’s Home CD (1994) features a young MC named Jay-Z, the veteran BDK, Dirty, 13 year old Shyheim (who might be best known for his acting in TLC’s Waterfalls video,) dancer turned wack-rapper Scoob, and Sauce Money. Dirty has two classic lines: “Rain on your college ass disco dorm,” which I have no idea what the fuck it means; and the last line “Danger,” which becomes the sample for Blahzay Blahzay’s East Coat Anthem of the same name. But BDK comes off with his verse: "and steppin to me you think I can be touched, huh, not even Michael Jordan would gamble that much." Ouch.

7- The Grammy fiasco- During Shawn Colvin’s acceptance speech at the 97 Grammys ODB bum rushes the stage and steals the mic. Among other utterances, he claims “Wu-Tang is for the children!” Ah, yes, and Ice Cube is for the Mormons.

8- “Dog Shit”- From the 2nd Wu album, this is Dirty’s only solo track.

9- “Ghetto Supastar”- Remember that wack track from the equally wack movie, Bulworth? Rumor has it that super-rapper Pras and hottie Mya were to record that as a duet when a drunken ODB went into the wrong studio. They put him on the track, and a few months later he almost blew himself up on the VMA stage performing the song.

10- “Woo Hah(remix)”- Busta and ODB on the same track. Reportedly other screamers like Sam Kinnison and Gilbert Gottfried were also slotted to appear. A hot track.

HM- Brooklyn Zoo I & II, Pop Shots, Conditioner (w/Snoop, although it sounds like it was recorded in a dumpster,) Nuttin But Flavor (Funk Flex w/ Biz and Charlie Brown,)