Ol’ Dirty Bastard - The Return to the 36 Chambers (The Dirty Version Wallet Box)

The album was originally released on Elektra in 1995. It was the second solo LP by a Wu-Tang Clan member, following Method Man’s Tical (1994). Production was handled for the most part by RZA (some of his most haunting, minimal and memorable work) with additional contributions from ODB, True Master and 4th Disciple. There are numerous vocal guests, including Wu’s GZA, RZA, Raekwon, Ghostface, Method Man and Masta Killa, but their turns are almost entirely incidental – the focus of the album is ODB’s own delirious, digressive and darkly humorous ranting. It’s a rap classic, end of, and the singles, ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya’ and ‘Brooklyn Zoo’, should be familiar to all.

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