Wu Tang Is For The Kids

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Funniest thing I've read in a while:



Cory Rooney: I reached out to ODB and he wanted $15,000 to rap on the record. At the time, that was a lot of money, but it really wasn't for Mariah Carey's budget -- so, no problem. He finally showed up, three hours late, and when he got there, it was about 10:30 at night. He had been drinking, and was on the phone when he walked in. Irate, screaming at some girl how he's gonna come kill her, he's going to kick her ass...and then whispering, "I love you." Then screaming again. This went on for an hour.

He finally came out and was like, "Yo, pardon me, this bytch is driving me crazy. I need some Moet and Newports before we get into this record." I said, "It's 12:30 at night now bro, I don't know where we're going to get Moet from." He started yelling at the assistants, calling them white devils, saying, "You white devils, y'all don't want black people to have shyt." They went out for like an hour, and the only thing they could find were some Heinekens. He was so disgusted, he threw a bottle on the floor.

At this point Mariah had been calling every hour on the hour, wanting to hear something over the phone. Tommy was pissed because Mariah was keeping him up, so he finally got on the phone with ODB -- and after that, finally we started to record. He said one line -- "me and Mariah, go back like babies with pacifiers" -- then paused, said, "Yo, I need to take a break," and went to sleep for 45 minutes. He woke up and was like, "Yo, let me hear what I did so far." We played his one line back, he sang another line or two, and then slept for another hour. He would come up with a line, punch that in, go to sleep. He went to sleep 3 different times in the middle of trying to get that one verse done. If you listen to the record now, on his verse, you can hear that it's punched in in pieces. He actually told the engineer, "Y'all better have your shyt set and record it right, cause I'm not doing it twice."

I stayed in the studio until we finished it. So I was sleeping in the studio when Tommy and Mariah called me, and said they loved the record. But Tommy had a bright idea: let's get ODB back in the studio, and instead of just, "New York in the house," do [a line] for every city. I said, "You've got to be kidding." Of course [ODB] wanted another $15,000. He came back to the studio, a little more mellow but dead tired. He's sitting there picking food out of his teeth -- he pulled a piece of food out of his mouth so big it was scary. I was like, "How long did you walk around with that food in your mouth?" Like, it was unbelievable. Then he fell asleep on couch, kicked one shoe off. His foot smelled so bad, we had to let him sleep and leave the control room. Eventually, we got the other parts done and that was that. I thought the story was over.

A week later, it was time to shoot a video. We reached out to him, and he wanted another $15,000 dollars. No problem. So I sent a car to his house and he drank every friggin' thing in the limo, showed up at Rye Playland [in New York], and went to his trailer. I had asked him, "Do you need the stylist to buy clothes for you?" He said, "Nah, this is hip-hop -- I'm just rocking some jeans and Timbs." [That day], he was in the trailer, in and out of consciousness, when I said, "We're getting ready to do a scene." He said, "I don't got no clothes, how am I going to do a video if I ain't got nothing to wear?" I started screaming at him.

Tommy told us take my corporate credit card to the mall. ODB disappeared for a minute, and we found him in a store trying to buy Louis Vuitton luggage. He said, "I'm going to use it for a scene." He came back [to the set] with all these bags of Tommy Hilfiger clothes and Timberlands.

It was finally time for him to do his scene, and I promise you, he put on a pair of jeans and Timbs, and said, "I'm not going to wear a shirt, I don't need no clothes." I wanted to shoot him. He was like, "I have an idea -- I want to tie up the clown." Plus, Mariah turned him on to peach schnapps, which she used to always drink. He drank like two bottles of that. So between the hot sun and him drinking two bottles, what a disastrous day that was. The video was a miracle, a real miracle.



ODB = 

[Blood$]

that's awesome

R.I.P. ODB

[DRGNBLZN]

that's awesome

R.I.P. ODB

[Hack Wilson - real]

rip

[doggfather]

that's awesome

R.I.P. ODB

[Sccit]

U CAN HEAR IT IN HIS MUSIC..LEGENDARY

[Sccit]

LOL LISTENIN 2 THE JOINT NOW, SHITS CHOPPED UP LIKE A MUFUCKA, 45 GZ FOR THEM 8 BARS? DAMN


I HEAR PUN USED TO RECORD 1 LINE AT A TIME

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Such an amazing insight into ODB who was without a shadow of doubt the realest, most entertaining chap to ever grace a mic. Check:

"One of my favorite stories was when [Ol' Dirty Bastard] and I were sitting in the office. We might've been snorting something, I don't know, and we were drinking champagne and celebrating," said a laughing King. "O.D.B. had just done really well on his [Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version]; his hair was doing the full O.D.B. [signature look] and stuff. And LL [Cool J] was supposed to come in and be on the session that day. And he didn't come in." It is believed, based on a similar 2009 account by then-Elektra Records A&R Dante Ross, that LL Cool J had asked Ol' Dirty to appear on an upcoming album. King explains that the Wu-Tang Clan member reacted poorly to LL's last-minute cancellation. "O.D.B. just got up at one point—stopped, got up and walked over and pulled LL's record off the wall and pissed on it." It is unclear which album Ol' Dirty urinated on, as Cool J had recorded at Chung King dating back to his 1985 debut, Radio. King adds, "I still have the record with the piss all over it. It's at my house. I haven't done the montage yet."

In the 2009 interview, Dante Ross had recalled that O.D.B. was upset at the beat selected for the collaboration. LL Cool J has never spoken publicly on the incident.



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