"DUST IT OFF: ODB's RETURN TO THE 36 CHAMBERS... 20 years later" Sat Mar-28-15 02:20 AM by johnbook
I wrote an article that is my look back at an album that affected me big time, not only as a guy who started an "unofficial Wu-Tang Clan mailing list" in the summer of 1995, but as someone who once said "everything I ever wanted in hip-hop, I hear in the Wu-Tang Clan". Today marks the 20th anniversary of RETURN TO THE 36 CHAMBERS by Ol' Dirty Bastard. It's part of my column called DUST IT OFF, and you can read it in full below. http://www.thisisbooksmusic.com/2015/03/28/dust-it-off-ol-dirty-bastard-return-to-the-36-chambers-20-years-later/
5. "RE: DUST IT OFF: ODB's RETURN TO THE 36 CHAMBERS... 20 years later" In response to Reply # 0 Sun Mar-29-15 03:04 AM by melanon
As an Islander, former drug dealer, young alkie, aging CAC, this album is as important as anything, ever in rap.
This and Criminal Minded are neck and neck for the title of most appearances during brown/blackouts. Home stereo, vehicle, iphone etc. Ply me with enough peach schnaps and one of these records will appear come morning.
I'll never forget how dustheads reacted to Brooklyn Zoo. I never saw such a peripheral, often marginalized demo spring into action like when Dirty came out. That shit was poetic.
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