Ol' Dirty Bastard

Ol' Dirty Bastard
General information
Birth name	Russell Tyrone Jones
Born	November 15, 1968 New York City, U.S.
Died	November 13, 2004 (aged 35) New York City, U.S.
Gender	Male
Nicknames	ODB
Genres	Hip Hop
Occupation	Rapper, songwriter
Years active	1990-2004

Russell Tyrone Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004), better known by his stage name Ol' Dirty Bastard (often abbreviated as O.D.B.), was an American rapper and producer.  He worked with Mariah on the Fantasy Remix in 1995.

Work with Mariah

Mariah worked with O.D.B on a remix version of Fantasy. When she did this, she said, “Everyone was like, ‘What are you, crazy?’ (Columbia is) very nervous about breaking the formula. It works to have me sing a ballad on stage in a long dress with my hair up.” While Columbia president Don Lenner, who’d been involved with her career at Columbia from day one, said he’d been “incredibly positive” about the remix, he did admit that “There might have been some [who fought it].” Mariah has openly admitted that when she think's of the track "Fantasy" she thinks about the remix and O.D.B rapping "Me and Mariah go back with babies with pacifiers." When Mariah reached out to O.D.B, he requested $15,000 to rap on the record. According to Hotnewhiphop, O.D.B showed up three hours late to the studio and when he got there, it was about 10:30 at night. At this point Mariah had been calling every hour on the hour, wanting to hear something over the phone. Tommy was reportedly "upset" because Mariah was keeping him up, so he finally got on the phone with ODB -- and after that, finally he started to record. He said one line -- "me and Mariah, go back like babies with pacifiers" -- then paused, said, “Yo, I need to take a break,” and went to sleep for 45 minutes. O.D.B, slept 3 different times in the middle of trying to get that one verse done. This is recognizable on the record because on his verse, you can hear that it’s been punched into pieces.  A week later, the music video was shot with O.D.B. It was reported that he was paid another $15,000 for the music video. ODB apparently purchased Louis Vuitton luggage and clothes for the video, but once he returned he declared that he didn't want to wear clothes anymore and would instead wear jeans and timberland boots. According to Cory Rooney, the video was a pure miracle.

Trivia

• Mariah really likes the Remix version of Fantasy (featuring O.D.B)

Gallery

"Paint pretty pictures of what I'd do if you were mine" To view the Ol' Dirty Bastard gallery, click here.