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.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.Read the rest at Motherboard.
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