RIP ODB!
Remember when RZA released music through a Boombotix speaker and didn’t make it available on the Internet unless you bought the music from the actual speaker? He’s doing that again, but this time with an Ol’ Dirty Bastard record titled “Obey Me.” The Wu-Tang Clan mastermind found the track in the vault and decided to release it as it was originally composed, as well as with two remixes with Shash’U and High Klassified.
You can listen to one of the remixes above and read what RZA had to say about how the track never made it to Return to the 36 Chambers below.
“We were recording his first album [Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version] and he was in the studio having a good time and recorded the song. He was fuckin’ buggin’ out on this song that night. Dirty felt that anything he made was supposed to be released. I was more critical of what we released. And even though some people may listen to his first album and go, ‘Shit, this is crazy, this song fits right in.’ To me, there was a method to the madness of what we did. And with the stuff that didn’t make the album, there was a clear reason why in the narrative of what I was striving to create with his style.”
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