Description
It’s safe to say that hip-hop has never seen an album like Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s 1995 solo debut Return to the 36 Chambers. The brief glimpses of ODB’s unhinged genius provided by Wu-Tang Clan’s landmark Enter the Wu-Tang album two years earlier were begging to be expanded on to a larger canvas, and, with RZA guiding production, the album promised to give Dirty the creative license to make one of the most bizarre, entertaining and original LPs in hip-hop history. With his raspy, drunken flow and dark sense of humor, Dirty fearlessly attacks from all angles, throwing himself fearlessly into punchy rhyme attacks (“Damage,” with GZA), drugged-out party jams (the monster singles “Brooklyn Zoo” and “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”) and bizarre, grimly hilarious fantasies of sex and violence (“Don’t U Know” and the R&B-tinged “Sweet Sugar Pie”).
Tracklist:
Side A:
Intro
Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Baby C’mon
Brooklyn Zoo
Side B:
Hippa To Da Hoppa
Raw Hide
Damage
Don’t U Know
Side C:
The Stomp
Goin’ Down
Drunk Game (Sweet Sugar Pie)
Snakes
Side D:
Brooklyn Zoo II (Tiger Crane)
Proteck Ya Neck II The Zoo
Cuttin’ Headz
