Ol' Dirty Bastard-Nigga Please (1999)

 

Artist: Ol' Dirty Bastard

Title: Nigga Please

Label: Elektra

Format: CD

Cat #: 62414-2

Year of Release: 1999

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1999

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 5/4/21

Sell Price: $3.99

Discogs Last Sold: 4/10/21 $18.00 M/M

Low: $2.29

Median: $3.99

Average: $7.10

High: $18.00

Current low price: $1.22

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 13

Have/Want: 363/66

Where Sold: Sunnyside, NY

Time it took to sell: 8 years

Where and When Bought: Tower or HMV around release brand new around $12.99 range

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

ODB/Big Baby Jesus only released 2 solo records in his lifetime before succumbing to the coke he constantly talks about doing at 35 years young, 5 years after this release.  Dirty connected with the Rock world in ways other rappers didn't.  Why?  Everyone loves a freak, and Dirty let his freak flag fly.

My introduction to ODB was a little backward.  I had the first Wu Tang in 1993 and liked their rough side ("Bring The Ruckus") more than their pop side ("C.R.E.A.M.").  I like it raw! Some teenage punk rock girl called the radio station regaling me at 3am with stories of Stiff Little Fingers and Blanks 77 fandom plus a newly found taste for LSD and Ol' Dirty Bastard's first one.  So I got myself a copy shortly after that and maybe even liked it more than the first Wu-Tang album start to finish if only for the musical question "who's the baddest mutherfucker in this Brooklyn town???"

So when Nigga Please came out, I was on it.  My favorites were "I Can't Wait" the title track and the bonus track "Cracker Jack."   Marz Bar had it on the jukebox and made "Got Your Money" and "Dirt Dog" rap hits among the punk rock.  For all his calling out of white people invading Bed-Stuy with their cop-calling, parochial ways will not oppress his being.  Freedom from a group structure means nobody to impose politics, philosophy, rules or shoot up his party.  Maybe HE will, but mostly he's just gonna fuck and get fucked up.    Everyone loves a crazy bad boy until they burn down their home 'til it falls like Rome.

What makes this Dirty Jesus stand out?  He does tons of blow, eats ass and gets his ass eaten like all deities should, but unlike most other people, he's not afraid to tell you in the most unfiltered way imaginable.  He's Dirty and doesn't give a fuck, but he'd rather you not call the cops on him while he lets the whole world know he be "Getting High."  One might imagine an over-the-top Dave Chapelle doing a Rick James parody, only the Bastard was real!  He certainly swore on the book of "Cold Blooded."  ODB-BBJ can sing!  

We don't know as casual listeners the real man behind the wig.  Prison and a passing from cocaine mixed with synthetic opiate Tramadol made the papers after this release.  It wouldn't shock me if he had his days among us mere mortals just like the character he created.  Some purported eyewitness might come out and say Dirty was “Dirty” every day, but was it physically possible?  Was he so sloppy with his coke he'd "numb" the pussy he was about to use for that daily anonymous shag?  Did he burp and aftertaste of corn or shit while eating ass?  Did he really make someone eat his celebrity ass every goddamn day?  And why did he have Chris Rock kick off the album?

These are the hard questions that Dirty took the answers with him to the grave.