O.D.B.: Regrets, He Had A Few
Rapper told of tumultuous life during 2003 parole board appearance
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O.D.B.: Regrets, He Had A FewRapper told of tumultuous life during 2003 parole board appearance
NOVEMBER 15--When Ol' Dirty Bastard appeared last year before the New York State Parole Board, the rapper (real name: Russell Jones) reflected on his turbulent life, financial problems, and prison disciplinary scrapes. Serving time for drug possession, Jones told parole officials that, upon his release, he planned to resume his recording career and had been offered $500,000 to produce a new album. A founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, the 35-year-old Jones collapsed and died Saturday afternoon at a Manhattan recording studio. Below you'll find transcript excerpts from Jones's February 2003 parole board hearing, which resulted in the performer's early release. Jones, one of nine siblings,told the panel that he was the only member of his family to encounter legal troubles. When asked about his years of drug abuse, Jones told the panel that he had been clean for four years and recalled how his life went off course: "When you got the stardom, you got the ladies all around, you got all kinds of foolish things messing with your head." (15 pages)
