Ol’ Dirty Bastard formerly of the Wu-Tang Clan passed away earlier today in a NYC recording studio. ODB has dropped out of site recently but he will be widely remembered for the time he took all of us (and MTV) along with him and several of his children to pickup food stamps at the NYC welfare office in a limo. This is what CNN had to say about the life of ODB:

O.D.B. — also known as Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Dirt McGirt, Big Baby Jesus or his legal name of Russell Jones — was a founding member of the seminal rap group the Wu-Tang Clan in the early 1990s.

With his unorthodox delivery — alternately slurred, hyper and nonsensical — O.D.B. stood out even in the nine-man Clan, which featured such future stars as Method Man, RZA and Ghostface Killah.

The Wu-Tang blueprint was for each member to pursue solo projects, and O.D.B.’s were among the best.

Here’s to you Dirt McGirt…Big Baby Jesus, here’s to you.