The music world has still not fully recovered from the sudden and untimely death several years ago of ODB, aka Ol’ Dirty Bastard, the hip hop performer known as much for his trademark gold teeth and bling bling jewelry as for his music.
After he tragically fell down and died in a New York City music studio, the cause of his death is now known to be a narcotics overdose.
It was apparently a mixture of legal and illegal narcostics, according to the various media reports.
All in all, his unfortunate and sad death is being treated as an accident since there does not appear to be any evidence of
any sort of foul play involved in this case. For example, he had a well-documented history of narcotics abuse
and even spent a couple of years in the slammer on just such a charge. he was only 35 years old when he died.
He had many other legal problems, and also tried to commit suicide at one point.
Specifically, when he died had had the powerful painkiller Tramadol plus large quantities of cocaine in his system.
It was officially declared to be an accidental overdose by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office
He had his own style, which was basically half-rapped, half-sung style. This style was quite unique.
Much like Flava Flav or Puff Daddy , he was also a huge proponent of bling bling jewelry, gold teeth and the like,
although I never saw him with the oversized watches or gold chains, diamond dog tags and other jewelry that some hip hop stars employed.
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