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September 28, 2006 at 02:18:00 PM | more stories by this author
Produced by RZA and featuring guest spots by several Wu-Tang members, Missy Elliott, Macy Gray, Pharrell, the Clipse, and N.O.R.E., A Son Unique hits stores November 7.
The final album of Wu-Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard, who died of a drug overdose while recording it, is finally complete and will be in stores nearly two years to the day after his death, Damon Dash Music Group said today.
ODB's A Son Unique
A Son Unique, produced entirely by Wu-Tang mastermind RZA, will hit stores November 7, featuring guest spots from Wu members RZA, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, and Method Man, as well as Missy Elliott, Macy Gray, Pharrell, the Clipse, N.O.R.E., and Fame from M.O.P.
The album title is a take on Unique Ason, one of Dirty's plethora of self-bestowed nicknames, which also include Osirus, Joe Bananas, Dirt McGirt, Dirt Dog, and Big Baby Jesus.
The album will be released through the Damon Dash Music Group. Upon his release from prison in 2003, ODB signed with Roc-A-Fella Records, and Dash's company is the remnants of that label following his split with longtime partner Jay-Z, who now heads Def Jam.
ODB--real name Russell Jones--was working on the album at Wu-Tang's recording studio in New York when he died of a lethal combination of prescription pain medication and a large amount of cocaine, according to the New York Medical Examiner's Office. He died November 13, 2004, just two days shy of his 36th birthday.
His death ended a period of several years filled with arrests for drug- and driving-related offenses, as well as his October 2000 escape from a court-mandated stay at a drug treatment facility and a one-month stint as a fugitive. He was eventually picked up by police while signing autographs in a McDonald's parking lot in Philadelphia.
Although widely renowned for his wildly off-beat, sometimes-slurred, half-sung delivery, ODB was more well known for his hilariously bizarre behavior. Even among the nine characters in the Wu-Tang Clan, ODB easily stood out as its most colorful character.
His final solo album was originally set for release in early 2005 but was delayed for an unspecified reason.
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