Barely two months after his death, the first posthumous CD of Ol 'Dirty Bastard (Russel Jones) is released. The -rapper, who became better known for his problems with the police and his slightly deranged behavior than for his (some say meager) qualities as an MC, died on November 13, 2004 in a studio in New York. After a dissection on his body, an overdose of cocaine and painkillers was found to be
… the cause of his death, the official statement remains an 'accident'. ODB's mother was quick to manage her son's legacy and started her own label to release material from her son. Osirus - The Official Mixtape is the first CD to be released on this and contains completely new recordings. It is clear that Osirus is little more than a loose collection of songs of which a large part, if ODB had not died, would probably not have made it to an album. Mother Jones should have been a little tougher. (IV)more
