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Ol' Dirty Bastard

March 2022

  • No 1 … Pharrell Williams in 2014

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    Pharrell Williams’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!

    It’s 20 years since his band NERD released their debut album – but the rapper-producer-singer-songwriter has been responsible for an avalanche of hits. As he and co-pilot Chad Hugo get inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, we count down Williams’s 30 greatest bangers

September 2013

  • Wu-Tang Clan

    From Rock's Backpages
    Wu-Tang Clan – 'They changed the lexicon of word and sound'

    It's 20 years since Wu-Tang clan's debut changed hip-hop, and to mark the event they play Bestival this weekend. In 1997, at the height of Wu, Melody Maker considered the group's place in history – in a piece we've taken from Rock's Backpages

July 2012

  • It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood

    The movie industry has never known what to do with rap music. But from NWA to ODB, the extreme lives of its stars offer epic stories for the big screen

March 2012

  • Ol' Dirty Bastard (left), and Michael K Williams as Omar Little in The Wire.

    Ol' Dirty Bastard to be played on screen by The Wire's Omar

    Michael K Williams, who played drug vigilante Omar Little, to take role of controversial Wu-Tang Clan rapper in film

January 2012

  • Ol' Dirty Bastard in 1997

    FBI releases file on Wu-Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard

    Report obtained using Freedom of Information Act connects late rapper with murder and the sale of drugs and guns

January 2005

  • Ol' Dirty Bastard, Osirus

  • ODB done a grave injustice

November 2004

  • Jacking the ripper

  • Ol' Dirty Bastard

March 2002

  • Portrait of the artist in jail

    He was the clown prince of hip-hop, famously appearing onstage with the Wu-Tang Clan while on the run from the police. Now Ol' Dirty Bastard is doing time. William Shaw meets him in Clinton Correctional Facility.

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