A Brooklyn road has a brand new title courtesy of one of many metropolis’s most esteemed rappers: Wu-Tang Clan’s Ol’ Soiled Bastard. Throughout a ceremony held in the present day (July 26) with the late MCs pals, household, and a bunch of native officers, Putnam Avenue within the Mattress-Stuy neighborhood was co-named ODB Jones Method in honor of the influential group’s co-founder.
Though Ol’ Soiled Bastard, actual title Russell Tyrone Jones, was born and raised in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood, his connection to Mattress-Stuy runs deep. On the ceremony, the rapper’s eldest brother, Ramsay Jones, informed New York photographer Howie Weiss that the road signal went up on the nook of a block their grandmother nonetheless lives on in the present day. The identical block can be residence to a well known mural depicting the quilt of Jones’ first solo album, Return To The 36 Chambers: The Soiled Model.
The road renaming arrives over twenty years after Jones died from an overdose in 2004 on the age of 35. Since then, two documentaries about his life and legacy have been launched: an unauthorized 2013 movie, which Jones’ property tried to dam, and a 2023 film launched on A&E together with his household’s blessing.
Learn Sheldon Pearce’s Sunday Evaluation of Return to the 36 Chambers: The Soiled Model.
