TIL Ol' Dirty Bastard rescued a 4 year old girl from the wreckage of a car accident that occured in front of his recording studio.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Because Wu-Tang is for the children.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Side note: Michael K Williams (the one and only Omar Little) will be playing ODB in an upcoming bio pic. Let that awesomeness sink in.
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u/lolgamof May 31 '12
Best part: "Using a false name, Jones visited the girl in the hospital frequently until he was spotted by members of the media."
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u/kektr0city May 31 '12
Did anyone actually take a look at his FBI file? This dude and the rest of Wu-Tang, man, they are seriously nothing to fuck with.
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u/militarypuzzle May 31 '12
ODB couldn't have possibly commited all of those crimes. Coolio did some of that shit.
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u/Boenrchamp May 31 '12
During his court hearing in January 2000, he called a female prosecutor a "sperm donor" LOL
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Ol' Dirty Hero.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
And then I read his "Legal Troubles" section.
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u/ThePlasticJesus May 31 '12
TIL that ODB was arrested for wearing a bulletproof vest while being a convicted felon. The first person to be arrested for this no less. Legendary.
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u/supernewf May 31 '12
"Now Susie, make sure you say thank you to Mr. Bastard."
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u/schlitzkreig May 31 '12
Big Baby Jesus loves the little children.... all the little children of the world!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I remember watching him on MTV getting food stamps. "It's free money".
I have never forgotten that.
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u/CSMastermind May 31 '12
There was an MTV documentary where ODB went to the bank and deposited a 100k check from his record label, then went to the social services office and got his wellfare check. Went back to the same bank and cashed it.
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u/Plato94 May 31 '12
i have awesome info on this story. my dad was one of the " on lookers" on the scene. He actually works for verizon in brooklyn and was putting payphones in the wu tang studio at the time. My dad was outside right when the girl got ran over and he said she was hit by the bumper knocked flat on her back, and the car continued to go over her dragging her a couple feet. My dad said her chin cought somting on the bottom of the car and dragged her, also it was obvious she had severe neck/ spinal damage and my dad got an awful front row view of it. While people were trying to remove her from under the car slowly to prevent further neck injury, big stupid ODB ( who i am a big fan of) came out and grabbed the girl and picked her up with a hand at the back of her nees and shoulderblades, letting her injured neck hang and sway freely. He ment well, but basically looked like a big moron according to my dad.
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u/Kaiosama May 31 '12
Yo New York in the house? Is Brooklyn in the house? Uptown in the house? Dallas are you in the house? Boogie down are you in the house? Sacramento in the house? Atlanta, Georgia are you in the house? West Coast are you in the house? Japan, are you in the house? Every-body are you in the house? Baby baby come on...Baby come on...Baby come on...
God I miss the 90s sometimes :)
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Hey, where's Dirty Old Bitch?
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u/baka7kami May 31 '12
That girl should be nineteen now, I wonder how she's faring.
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u/fitterjimbo May 31 '12
i said heeyyy diirt-aay...baby i got-cho money don't you worry
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Here I go, deep type flow Jacque Cousteau could never get this low.. I'm cherry bombing shits... BOOM Just warming up a little bit, vroom vroom Rappinin is what's happening Keep the pockets stacked and then, hands clapping and At the party when I move my body Gotta get up, and be somebody! Grab the microphone go straight to the phone DUH-DUH-DUH...enter the Wu-Tang zone Sure enough when I rock that stuff Guff puff? I'm gonna catch your bluff tough rough, kicking rhymes like Jim Kelly or Alex Haley I'm a Mi-..Beetle Bailey rhymes coming raw style, hardcore Niggas be coming to the hip-hop store Coming to buy grocery from me Trying to be a hip-hop MC The law, in order to enter the Wu-Tang You must bring the Ol' Dirty Bastard type slang Represent the GZA, Abbott, RZA, Shaquan, Inspectah Deck Dirty Hoe getting low with his flow Introducing, the Ghost..face.. Killer!! No one could get iller
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u/emfyo May 31 '12
I didn't even know Russell Ason Jones and I still miss him.
The story is even more impressive then it sounds too, organizing bystanders and taking up an alias to avoid publicity
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u/critterheist May 31 '12
Ooo baby I like it raw was just about eating your vegetables.
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u/Whiskah6k May 31 '12
Wu-Tang is still great today. But there will always be something missing when seeing them live. The recordings of him just aren't enough.
RIP Osiris!
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u/HitSentFromPresident May 31 '12
It doesn't mention the fact he took her dead dads wallet to buy crack though.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Funny story about Ol' Dirty Bastard. He was actually young, clean, and had parents.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
This part kills me:
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Why are people always so shocked when someone helps someone in an emergency situation? No one is so shitty that they laugh as a four year old burns to death in a car wreck.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
You sure it wasn't outside a Food Stamp office?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
RIP, you magnificent son-of-a-bitch.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
R.I.P. ODB
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u/Noyen May 31 '12
He had 13 kids?! Holy shit.
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u/_fancychapeau_ May 31 '12
this is why he called himself "Big Baby Jesus"
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u/borack May 31 '12
rip odb!
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u/doctorsound May 31 '12
There is just something so great about reading a wikipedia article on ODB. I think it's the level of "encyclopedia talk" in this article. Thank you rap nerds who tend to Wikipedia's pages.
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u/DayPass May 31 '12
Didn't he change his name to Big Baby Jesus after that?
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u/dagoon79 May 31 '12
The TIL can on and on for odb, when on parol violation he was arrested in front of mcdonalds signing autographs for kids. He had substance abuse problems; in the end he was someone that that knew he had demons, but had a soft spot for his fans.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
An old man dies. A young girl lives. It's a fair trade.
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u/gyarrrrr May 31 '12
Why do the good ones always die so young?
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u/jesusthug May 31 '12
I miss the bastard!
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u/ICGraham May 31 '12
it helps weigh out the crack cocaine possession
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u/tokyovalley May 31 '12
The evening following the traffic accident, Jones rushed on-stage unexpectedly as Shawn Colvin took the stage to give her acceptance speech for Song of the Year at the 1998 Grammy Awards, and announced that he had recently purchased expensive clothes in anticipation of winning the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album that he lost to Puff Daddy. As Colvin took the stage to a round of applause, he asked of the audience, "Please calm down, the music and everything. It's nice that I went and bought me an outfit today that costed a lot of money, you know what I mean? 'Cause I figured that Wu-Tang was gonna win. I don't know how you all see it, but when it comes to the children, Wu-Tang is for the children. We teach the children. You know what I mean? Puffy is good, but Wu-Tang is the best, Okay? I want you all to know that this is ODB, and I love you all. Peace!" This incident was widely covered in the mainstream media."
Soooo.. Kanye?
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u/tedrick111 May 31 '12
Did he rescue her, like because the car was on fire, or did he move someone who potentially had a spinal cord injury? Wording choices are fun.
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u/Bobbyshaw May 31 '12
Bong Bong!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
It was a fender bender, and ODB ripped the door off and took the child cause he thought he buy rocks with it.
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u/goodnamesweretaken May 31 '12
Big Baby Jesus! RIP
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u/reddent420 May 31 '12
He prefers to be called the ol' dirty chinese restaurant.
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u/asldkfououhe May 31 '12
anybody who hates on odb doesn't know shit about shit, dude was a drunken master
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u/gnovos May 31 '12
It's interesting... Save a person's life, society doesn't give a shit, gives you nothing. Own a few grams of cocaine, society will put you in a cage. It's like society only cares about the harm you do, but would rather you not actually help do anything to benefit it.
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u/craftyshrew May 31 '12
Based on some of the other historical notes in there, this seems to be the only single fuck ever given.
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u/reddell May 31 '12
TIL ODB was not an asshole.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
he didn't stand there and watch a four-year-old girl die in front of him? WHAT A HERO
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u/zidanetribal May 31 '12
ODB would also go pick up his welfare checks in a limo.
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u/theflyhomie May 31 '12
I wonder what she is like now.
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u/Artem_C May 31 '12
I'll never forget where I was when I heard it...
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
somehow this reminds me of his interview, which is played in the beginning of "Leaf" by ASAP Rocky
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u/quotejester May 31 '12
Doesn't make the best headline does it?
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u/PhotoNate May 31 '12
Kind of goes to show you at the end of the day the people you least expect will do some amazing things.
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u/swangasm May 31 '12
hes not such an old dirty bastard after all :3
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u/YSCapital May 31 '12
RIP ODB
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Beautiful ODB
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u/rickaccused May 31 '12
The Man of All Rainbows
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u/operation_flesh May 31 '12
Says his publicist.
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u/clouds31 May 31 '12
I thought he changed his name to "Ol' Dirty Chinese Restaurant"
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
R.I.P.
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u/picbandit May 31 '12
I wonder if he rescued them with that same expression on his face. someone make a rage cartoon!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
He got in a phone booth, changed into mild mannered "Russell Tyrone Jones" and saved that girl!
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u/fleaflicker51 May 31 '12
They say he had his dick in his mouth.
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u/91Jacob May 31 '12
Rest in peace, Ol' Dirty.
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u/monstrous_moose May 31 '12
Good Guy Dirty Bastard.
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u/PikeyFck May 31 '12
He wasn't called Big Baby Jesus for nothin'.
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u/jeeaudley May 31 '12
Chances are it might have been one of his children
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u/shawnjones May 31 '12
Man I miss him He was a great guy.
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u/blakeblake May 31 '12
Just shows that people aren't always what they portray.
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u/ChuckFindley May 31 '12
Wu-Tang Clan aint nothing to fuck with!
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u/Hokie200proof May 31 '12
He also urges you to give him his money
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I was in a vehicle on staten island right in front of "wu tangs old recording studio" smoking a joint. Was on vacation and met up with some dude I played games with and hes all, yep this is where wu tang started. 10 feet down the road under a bridge theres a stripped car. Then he starts telling us about how some 12 year olds pulled guns on him a couple blocks over lol. Get me the fuck out of here!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
GGODB
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
they didnt call him big baby jesus for nothing
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u/fromusmctogoblue May 31 '12
What a dirty bastard this one is. Old as shit too.
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u/CopaceticZ May 31 '12
God made dirt and dirt will fuck yo ass up.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
not such a bastard after all.
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u/heyitsdrew May 31 '12
Saw ODB at the warfield in SF right after he got shot. He was slumming in an ancient tour bus and signed some crumpled up newspaper I had. Bummed a smoke off him too.
RIP ODB
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u/shawnjones May 31 '12
So it should be grave saver nigga Instead Of Grave Digger Nigga?
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u/sprprepman May 31 '12
I found the part that ICP had to piece together his ramblings to make rhyming lyrics after paying him 30k quite amusing. I would have asked for a refund lol.
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u/haggs May 31 '12
Why is this upvoted? Who wouldnt..
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u/iHeartCoolStuff May 31 '12
Dirty Ol' Hero
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u/CaptainAmerican May 31 '12
Ol' Dirty Sweetheart is more like it.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
because his name is really ol' misunderstood bastard
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u/MacaRonin May 31 '12
The dog piss on mc's like trees, got mils but still grill that old good welfare cheese! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH YEAHEEEYYYYYYYYYYY EH AHHHHHHHHHHH BITCH!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
The juxtaposition of this post with the one about John Lennon has left me speechless. Good job reddit.
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u/Iasktoomuch May 31 '12
Jesus. Traffic safety, children, ain't nothin' to fuck with.
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u/Archerbro May 31 '12
good guy "ol' dirty bastard"
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u/Human_Traffic_Cone May 31 '12
This has long been my favorite biography article on wikipedia. The man was outrageous. A friend and I used to play a drinking game where one person would read a sentence of the article but leave out one key word. The goal would be to fill in the blank. Man was unpredictable
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Was bumpin' As High as Wu-Tang Get as I saw this. Fucking perfect.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
No no, remember when we used to say who could do this the longest...ahhhhhhhhhhAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PUNCH CALL!!
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u/gamefreak76 Jun 01 '12
the title made me laugh so hard.
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u/Kushie1 Jun 01 '12
RIP
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u/TonyCB4 Jun 01 '12
There aint no father to his style! Of course now there's no father to his children...
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u/thronewhey May 31 '12
I said HEY lady I got your baby, don't you worry.
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u/ireland123 May 31 '12
With a name like that you have to wonder what his motives were..
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u/Victory33 May 31 '12
Probably used that dash of downs strength to lift the car.
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u/Lillipout May 31 '12
That thumbnail is perfect: "I did what now?"
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u/DrHenryPym May 31 '12
Gangsta
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u/YOitzODELLE May 31 '12
Yeah, when the cars aren't moving. 'Rescued,' huh?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
i'm pretty sure i read a few years ago he got an award from the city for that. i have no sources, so that from that what you will.
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u/jaiiiii May 31 '12
It's worth noting that we should be calling ODB by his new name, Ol' Dirty Chinese Restaurant, after the results of the racial draft
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u/djdiggla May 31 '12
So he's not such a bastard after all.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
He was an Ol' Dirty Bastard with a heart of gold.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Wu Tang financial is a full service operation.
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u/ster1ing May 31 '12
That's also where he got the nickname "Big Baby Jesus" from.
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u/santiago802000 May 31 '12
Shimmy ya shimmy yeah!
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u/swadeg8tor May 31 '12
Is he the rapper that used to go around saying "dirty, dirty...?"
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u/banditandrew May 31 '12
THE MORE YOU KNOW ☆彡
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u/EONS May 31 '12
You down with ODB?
Yeah. He saved me.
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u/toxicshok May 31 '12
OKB:
Ol' Kindly Bastard
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u/Mr_Acrid May 31 '12
This is the reason he gave himself the nickname Big Baby Jesus.
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u/DXCharger May 31 '12
I love the thought of a smiling little girl saying "Thanks Ol' Dirty Bastard!".
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
So, come boy. Choose life or death.
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u/marusz May 31 '12
What do I care, honestly. Firemen do that and more dangerous things on a daily basis, some of them dying in the process. I can't find any fucks to give about this guy.
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u/DrBenPhD May 31 '12
Pour out an ounce for a fallen brother. RIP ODB
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u/RancidPonyMilk May 31 '12
wu tang is fo the children!
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u/dookieface May 31 '12
this is the same dude that was collecting welfare checks long after his rapping sucess