Putnam Avenue in Brooklyn’s Mattress-Stuy neighborhood now shares a reputation with some of the influential rappers of all time. Yesterday, with an official ceremony that introduced collectively pals, household, and authorities officers, Putnam Avenue additionally turned ODB Jones Approach, named after Wu-Tang Clan co-founder Ol’ Soiled Bastard.
The hip-hop legend was born Russell Tyrone Jones in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene. In a video from NYC photographer Howard Weiss, ODB’s brother Ramsey Jones, defined that the signal went up on the nook of Franklin Avenue and Putnam Avenue, on the identical block the place their grandmother nonetheless lives. That block additionally homes a mural of the quilt of ODB’s debut album, Return To The 36 Chambers: The Soiled Model.
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