Ol' Dirty Bastard Album: “Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones”

This album is a sheisty industry money making move! ODB had nothing to do with the production of this album! Russel Jones didn't even know that it was coming out! All it is is old ODB verses put over wack new beats with guest MCees. This album is horrid, and if you love and respect ODB like myself, don't pick it up. Go get Nigga Please and Return to the 36, those are albums that ODB actually had input on. This album sucks. ODB doesn't suck though. Damn the sheisty jerks at D3 records. They are doing their best to destroy ODB's reputation as a great MC, which he most definitely is.

First song has the worst group ever, ICP, that automatically makes this CD horrible from the beginning. The majority of ODB's lyrics are just cut out of old Wu-Tang songs. The production is horrible. Stay away from this CD, I don't even consider it a Wu CD.

This cd is terrible! The production is lack-luster at best (the RZA isn't even on the cd, and neither are any other Wu members) and Ol' Dirty is just reharshing old lyrics from "Return to the 36 Chambers", "Nigga Please" and "Wu Tang Forever" (only 3 songs are original, in terms of lyrics). The third-string rappers with him, like C-Mureder and Too Short, are just boring to hear and on top of that, needless skits and remixes eat up more album time. This is one of the worst Wu albums to come out yet, right down there with "Golden Arms Redemption" by U-God. Don't waste your money; buy "Return to the 36 Chambers" instead.

Ol Dirty. That used to be enough to make many Wu Tang fans run to the local record store and buy his records unheard. The trials and tribulations of Russel Jones is so dissapointing I can't express it in words. Cousin RZA aka Robert Diggs aka Bobby Digital didn't have any input into this cd and if he did I would hope that Insane Clown Posse wouldn't be on it. The album falls flat on it's face from the very beginning. Two tracks with Sunz of Man and Brooklyn Zu are standout tracks on this album, but unfortunately a 20 dollar single is plain stupid. ...

For those on here who remember Return to the 36 chambers, the one with the raw Rza beats before the WU started to throw together garbage like this, this is one to skip... truly tell the tale of what this is, nothing more than a thrown together album with generic snyth beats (How is is sonically or musically the best of his career?), that come no where near as gritty as a 95 Rza on the boards (They must have never heard that album). The guests are pretty much whack ICP, Mack 10 and a few other guests, that could have been replaced by Wu members and Rza beats... heard how dark the beats are on 36 Chambers, and how Rza fits his crazy style alot more than this commercial type feel of the album? If they did then they would figure out this is no where near the best album of Dirties career, rather by far the worse (Ni**a please was even better), no where in the category of an old Wu album from 95 (Return 36, Liquid Swords, Cuban Linx etc.). He needs to get it together (You know he didn't put together this album), get Rza on the beats and Wu members on the mic, to even get some of the original fanbase back. This is why the Wu is slipping and heads aren't checking for them anymore, letting garbage like this out makes it worse. Stay to making albums like Iron Flag, and stray away from this album..., stay away from this album. Wait until the ... ODB gets free and puts together an album worth buying, in other words forget this disaster ever happened.