I just saw O.D.B. died Saturday...

[pyrate83]

Just saw it on my homepage. I wonder how many people really cared...no offense but I mean that was the only thing I heard on it. He was kind of a famous rapper though.

[ViRaL1]

R.I.P. O.D.B. AKA Dirt McGirt. AKA Big Baby Jesus. I just heard about it today myself. Not much in the way of coverage I guess.

[Hardcoreruss]

Apparently he was complaining of chest pains, found dead in a studio, only 36.

[glockjs]

wu tang clan aint nothin to **** wit....RIP thee osirus

[Faustus]

Yeah I heard an interview with him Friday morning on Opie and Anthony (he's been a repeat guest over the years), AFAIK it was his last interview.

He once tried to steal a laptop out of their office.

[VCDHunter]

RIP ODB

[enstg8er]

never heard of him. don't think i ever saw anything he was in. couldn't pick him out of a line-up full of sheep....

[Guest]

Wish I took him in my death pool.

[NamPla]

He was poof

[pyrate83]

NEW YORK(AP) The death of rapper O.D.B. was deemed an accident by the medical examiner, who said Wednesday that he died from the combined effects of cocaine and a prescription painkiller.

O.D.B., whose legal name was Russell Jones, died at a Manhattan recording studio Nov. 13.

He died "as a result of intoxication by the combined effects of cocaine and Tramadol, a prescription painkiller but not a narcotic," said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner's office.

"The manner of death is an accident," she added.

O.D.B. complained of chest pains before collapsing at the studio, and was dead by the time paramedics reached him. He was just days short of his 36th birthday.

O.D.B., also known as Ol' Dirty Bastard, was a founding member of the rap group the Wu-Tang Clan.

With his unorthodox delivery _ alternately slurred, hyper and nonsensical _ O.D.B. stood out even in the nine-man Clan, and as a solo artist he released hit singles such as "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" and "Got Your Money."

He had been working on his comeback album for more than a year and was almost finished.

O.D.B. was the latest in a string of rappers to meet an untimely death, among them Jam Master Jay of Run DMC, who was fatally shot in late 2002, and Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, who were both shot to death in the late 1990s. Those killings remain unsolved.

--Most recent article on my RoadRunner homepage says he was doing cocaine and painkillers and that is what killed him. Too bad.

[Cobra]

Drugs kill.

[jimmalenko]

Sorry in advance for the groaner, but someone has to say it ......

Drugs are bad ..... mmmmmmkay ....

[Conquest10]

What with the bumping of these old posts, Jim?

[jimmalenko]

What with the bumping of these old posts, Jim?

umm, excuse me ? sorry, I don't know what you mean

Yoda's bumped quite a few, and this one was bumped by pyrate83.

The only ones I bump are "2 Choices, you decide" and "The poster above you".

Don't forget, bumping requires research .... and that just ain't me


EDIT: I lie, I have bumped a couple in the last few days, but I've been home sick, bored shitless and in a lot of pain so please forgive me, it won't happen again

[Conquest10]

Happens to me all the time too. Right now, in between writing my final and just sitting around, I am getting pretty bored and the board seems a little dead right now...

[jimmalenko]

Happens to me all the time too. Right now, in between writing my final and just sitting around, I am getting pretty bored and the board seems a little dead right now...

No dramas mate.

I think I'm gonna have to be sick more often, because the time difference means that my normal working hours are the hours that the boards light up . By the time I get home from work, most of the US is asleep, and so evenings for me can be quite tedious until roughly midnight, when all you guys start waking up again.