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Classic Album Review: Ol’ Dirty Bastard | Osirus: The Official Mixtape

The troubled rapper's first posthumous release offers flashes of his unstable genius.

This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Let the necrophilia begin — musically speaking, of course.

Supposedly completed shortly before his untimely death in November, these tracks from the late Wu-Tang Clan OG are the first in what’s sure to be a long line of postmortem releases. But even if Osirus does have the whiff of a padded-out cash-in, you still get flashes of ODB’s unstable genius in standout cuts like Pop Shots and the Fame-sampling Dirty Run.