Wu-Tang Clan co-founder Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s debut album, Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version is the latest 1990s release to be officially re-issued on vinyl and 2CD by Boston, Massachusetts-based Get On Down Records. The late emcee’s 1995 Elektra Records gold debut, which was almost entirely produced by the RZA, will come back into print on November 22.
Get On Down has added a deluxe bill-fold wallet, laminated ‘food stamp” card, a vintage “on tour” poster, promotional sticker, extended artwork with liner notes, milestones and accolades. The re-issue’s second disc features: 12″ versions, remixes, instrumentals, and acapellas.
The food stamp card, prominently featured as the original album’s cover art, plays on O.D.B.’s famous MTV segment where the platinum Wu-Tang emcee collected state-appropriated funds at a check-cashing store.
According to Get On Down, the re-issue is licensed and approved by the estate of Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Previously, the label released deluxe re-issues of fellow Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah’s Ironman and Supreme Clientele.
this was a really good album
Nah mate… this was a fucking incredible album!
naw homie this was a really incredible album. Bad bad Leroy brown baddest man in the whole dam town, badder then the deep blue seaaaaa badder than you meeeeaaaaaaaah.
truly one of the most creative, original albums in hiphop history. not too many of those albums in hip hop.
Classic shit….. Yes I am going to buy this.
already got it, but i’m buying it again no doubt
“You know god damn well I don’t smoke this shit Meth”
LOL hell yeah!!
I actually had method man playing while I read this haha.
Wu-Tang is for the children
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put out some unreleased odb
jbird bitch
bring old dirty back from the grave
fuck yea! i always wanted that food stamp card! haha lol. but anyways, im sure as hell waiting for this release. i already got the original version…but shit, i always want to own both the original version and a re-issue deluxe edition of all of the 90’s albums i currently own! 😀
word I still got my tape, I been through 2 CDs, still got my brooklyn zoo single cassette & the maxi CD with the lord digga remix, the dont you know 12 inch with the remix on it, the instrumental album, I even got this 12 inch called live 95 or something but its basically an elektra artist showcase, dirtys on it w/ brooklyn zu, pete rock on the turns, the quotables are fuckin gold by itself, if you ever heard dirty rhyming over shook ones PART1 its from that album…I even remember copping the shimmy shimmy 12 inch JUST to play it backwards LMAO! if u didnt know its nothing but the 1st verse backwards lol…fun times man! #COPPED
That’s a really dope package, and a definite purchase for me. I miss ODB, he was really something different.
Dirt McGirt.
this is funny slash disrepectful slash another way to make money off a dead man but if the money goes to his family and 8 million kids then its for a good cause but it does seem like some shit he would have done if he was still here
I already have the cd but it sounds like I’m going to have to get this, nothing like hearing different songs from the time period and also getting the food stamp card is tight.