Cons: I just have one complaint, I wish that extended version of "Shimmy Shimmy Ya'll" (the one we hear on the video and then some) was here instead of the one we got, but its still a great song.

Wu Tang Saga-Dirt Magert Style
This album is in a way a new rap style. Nobody bites ODB and nobody could sound like him if they learned every lyric off by heart. Many may hate this because in a way it is to dirty for hip hop, but why would you buy it for this style and throw it away for the same reason. I just don't understand it. How could you buy this if you knew what you were getting. Stop critisizing this hip hop if you are not a hip hop fan. So preaty much what I'm trying to tell everyone is that if you have 36 chambers and didn't like Ol Dirty then you won't like this one now. But me on the other hand couldn't stop listening to his part in da mystery of chessboxing and loving it. I said I must have an Ol Dirt album cus Ican't get enough of him. So I found his second album and didn't get it and still haven't and never will. I don't know if his first album is good or not, I havn't heard it. But when I found this I had to get it. Fans will love this. But if you are not a fan of him why would you buy it in the first place? Represent the GZA, Abbott RZA, Shakwon, Inspectah Deck, Dirty hoooeeee getin lowww wit his floooowwww, introducing the Ghost Face Killaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh, no one could get illa. Pick this up.

Wu Tangs 3rd album
Back in 1995 Wu Tang were hot and NYC hip hop was riding high off Biggies debut and a real strong scene. Unlike now, you really had to come with some serious beats & rhymes just to get play, and Ol Dirty Bastard was the emcee blessed with getting the second solo album job from the crew, after Method Mans patchy debut 'Tical' in 1994.

Ol Dirtys album has to be one of the more demented, tripped out albums I ever heard. RZA lays down all the beats and unlike 'Tical' there's no pop music or R&B, just pure, hard edged hip hop. ODB sounds blunted out of his mind through the whole thing, rapping, mumbling, singing... At times it almost feels like you've been jacked at gun point and forced through a crazy day in the life of the emcee. Although his mic style is a little hard to get to grips with at first, he does have some skills and a lot of wit, and a large crew of Wu members and extended family who lace him with back up. Overall this is some dark and sick hip hop, and reminds me of how strong & original Wu Tang were ten years ago.

DIRTY,STANKIN, AND CRAZY
ODB HAS ENTERTAINED US ON EVERY LEVEL, THIS CD IS TIGHT AS HELL IT HAS SOME TIGHT RZA PRODUCTION, DIRTY PUTS HIS ALL INTO THIS ONE. WHEN I TELL PEOPLE I LIKE ODB THEY LOOK AT ME LIKE IM CRAZY OR SOMETHING, BUT I DONT CARE ODB ISNT A GREAT RAPPER BUT ITS HIS CRAZY STYLE THAT MAKE HIM SO GREAT CAUSE NO ONE CAN BITE HIS STYLE AND MOST OF THE SONGS HE MAKES HES DRUNK AS HELL. KEEP ON DOING YO THING ODB.

Misogynistic, hostile, menacing!!!...'But 'Oh so much fun!!'
Hardcore Rap would certainly be one way of describing 'Old Dirty Bastards' music, as virtually every track has a multitude of expletives, Off-beat raps, rhymes that sometimes don't rhyme, incredibly graphic references of Sex & Violence that will shock & offend those not used to O.B.D (Old. Dirty.Bastard)'yet his music has that certain infectious slant to it'how can anyone not listen to 'Shimmy Shimmy Ya' and not recognise it as a club anthem??'.or how about the incoherent rap ramblings of 'Brooklyn Zoo', or the full on Wu-endorsed (several 'Wu-Tang' members make an appearance) on the exceptional 'Proteck Ya Neck II in The Zoo', that in amongst O.D.B's more incoherent vocal assaults 'Drunk Game (Sweet Sugar Pie)' gives his album surprising diversity'so you have your 'Anthems/Hardcore Raps/Humorous/Interludes /collaborations/bizarre ballads/, to deliver an album, that is undeniably both musical & lyrical unbalanced'.but given the sheer charisma of O.D.B is one that he is more capable than most to push to its limits'his best album, period.
Return's title and various lyrics acknowledge Wu-Tang's self-built mythology, but Ol' Dirty Bastard's solo debut, like the man himself, runs on its own idiosyncratic power. Rapping forcefully and on point--mumbling, singing, allowing weird wordless sounds to escape his throat in an assertion of his right to make random noise--ODB slips from mode to mode like Marvin Gaye juxtaposing the gruff and the smooth in the same song. The production, mostly by the RZA, sets the man down in the middle of funky, shape-shifting tracks to scream for blood, shout out to the Temptations and "you other grooops!" and threaten "any MC in any 52 states." "I love that guy," ODB secret identity Russell Jones declares of his alter ego at the outset; after a listen to this disc, it's likely at least part of you will, too. --Rickey Wright