The world has lost a great talent, but we mourn the loss of our friend. On stage ODB's performance was unorthodox - alternately slurred, hyper and nonsensical - but in the studio he was productive, releasing hit singles such as Shimmy Shimmy Ya and Got Your Money and appearing on remixes with artists such as Mariah Carey.
In February , he crashed the stage at the Grammy Awards and snatched the microphone from singer Shawn Colvin as she accepted an award. He was upset over losing the best rap album Grammy to Sean "P Diddy" Combs and complained that he had spent a lot of money on new clothes because he thought he was going to win.
He lived on the edge of the law and often within inches of his life. Wounded in shootings and arrested on a long list of charges, including threatening security officers, illegally possessing body armour, driving with a suspended licence, shoplifting and threatening a former girlfriend.
Reportedly tormented by other prisoners and viewed by many observers as mentally unstable even before he was incarcerated, ODB was put on suicide watch. In addition, an upstart label called D3 Entertainment cobbled together an ethically dubious ODB album in with help from a host of producers and rappers titled The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones.
However, the Onion 's Nathan Rabin found a sliver of optimism in this dismal, slapdash work. ODB's life has gone from comedy to tragedy within a short span of time.
He was as close as they could get to the ghetto and watch someone totally dissolve as a human, while sitting far enough back to laugh. You don't come across a character like that too often. He was a calamity waiting to happen.
That's kind of the beauty of it. But those are the people who are remembered in history. Jesus was a rebel. In early April of , ODB was released from prison and transferred to a New York state mental facility to ease the transition between prison and parole. On May 1, , ODB was released from the mental facility. He participated in a news conference a few hours after his release to announce both a change in name and record label.
Selected discography Solo Return to the 36 Chambers Elektra, He was The group released their debut album Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers in , receiving notable commercial and critical success.
In , he was arrested for failure to pay child support for three of his children. He was shot in the back and arm but the wounds were superficial.
He was arrested for criminal threatening after a series of confrontations in Los Angeles a few weeks later, and was then re-arrested for similar charges not long after that. During a traffic stop, the details of which remain clouded in multiple versions of events, he was arrested for attempted murder and criminal weapon possession. The case was later dismissed. Ranked on the list of most popular Rapper. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United States.
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