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$Ol\' Dirty Bastard - The Return To The 36 Chambers Album$
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Return's title and various lyrics acknowledge Wu-Tang's self-built mythology, but Ol' Dirty Bastard's solo debut, like the man himself, runs on its own idiosyncratic power. Rapping forcefully and on point--mumbling, singing, allowing weird wordless sounds to escape his throat in an assertion of his right to make random noise--ODB slips from mode to mode like Marvin Gaye juxtaposing the gruff and the smooth in the same song. The production, mostly by the RZA, sets the man down in the middle of funky, shape-shifting tracks to scream for blood, shout out to the Temptations and "you other grooops!" and threaten "any MC in any 52 states." "I love that guy," ODB secret identity Russell Jones declares of his alter ego at the outset; after a listen to this disc, it's likely at least part of you will, too.

--Rickey Wright

The Return To The 36 Chambers
by Ol' Dirty Bastard

Song Lyrics

Damage
Don't You Know
Snakes
Brooklyn Zoo II
Proteck Ya Neck II In The Zoo
Cuttin' Headz
Dirty Dancin'


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