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The Dirt on Dirt McGirt

ODB's recently-released FBI file is strange, violent, and revealing.

Since he passed away in 2004, the result of an accidental overdose, the exploits of erratic, perhaps insane 90s rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard — a landmark arrest for wearing a bulletproof vest, his paranoia that the FBI and CIA were out to kill him, his time as a fugitive whose escape may have been helped by Mariah Carey — has become the stuff of Internet legend. Now we can add a new entry to the proceedings: the FBI’s version of events.

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The FBI file of ODB, born Russell Jones, comes via a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the website Muckrock.com. While the release focuses specifically on ODB, much of the narrative concerns the FBI’s investigation into the Wu Tang Clan – an investigation that had been requested by the NYPD after that organization deemed Wu Tang a mafia-like criminal enterprise.

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