Many of the verses ODB kicks were written by the GZA. Truthfully, ODB didn’t even write a good portion of the album. ODB was never known for his sharp pen game. Return to the 36 Chambers is everything you could possibly expect from someone who specializes in doing the unexpected. He was scooped up by Elektra Records’ Dante Ross after he heard the Clan rapping on Stretch and Bobbito’s legendary WKCR radio show and he was the second member to release a solo album, following the success of Method Man’s Tical (1994). ODB was one of the first of Wu-Tang’s core members to sign a solo album deal. ODB, as Ason Unique, also served as a dancer and hype-man for GZA, then known as The Genius, while the latter was recording Words From a Genius (1991), his first album for Cold Chillin’ Records. They soon changed their name to the All N Together Now crew and began recording tracks together. He was a charging tornado of energy and chaos, who made his name and his fame running roughshod over every track he graced.Įarly in his career, he combined with cousins Robert “RZA” Diggs and Gary “GZA” Grice as The Force of the Imperial Masters Crew a.k.a. There’s never been another emcee like Russell “Ol’ Dirty Bastard” Jones a.k.a. And yet it stands, a quarter century later, as one of the most successful and popular of the Wu-Tang Clan solo albums, and a testament to Ol’ Dirty’s demented genius. Trying to explain or wrap your head around the album, released 25 years ago, at times seems like an exercise in futility. There is no reason for Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version to work as well as it does.
Happy 25th Anniversary to Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s debut album Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, originally released March 28, 1995.
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