



Ol’ Dirty Bastard (born Russell Tyrone Jones) wasn’t just the most colorful member of Wu-Tang Clan, on at least one occasion, he was the most heroic…

In February 1998, ODB was at work in the studio with his cousin, 12 O’Clock, when he looked out the window and witnessed a car accident on the street outside. A 1996 Ford Mustang had run into a four-year-girl, who had then gotten trapped underneath the car. ODB ran to the scene of the accident and organized a group of about a dozen onlookers to lift the car off of the little girl, who was then taken to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns.

For several days Ol’ Dirty Bastard visited the girl in the hospital using a false name until the media sussed out the secret. Here’s the MTV News report on the incident at the time.

It’s a good thing that ODB didn’t have to resort to his Plan B, which was to tell the girl to “Shimmy Shimmy Ya.”



Previously on Dangerous Minds:

Ol’ Dirty Bastard memorialized by The Clapper

Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s FBI file in its entirety

