Ol' Dirty Bastard was one of the greatest rappers of all time. Right up there. I saw him with Wu Tang Clan headlining a Hut 97 gig where he loudly and profanely wondered why they were there since Hut 97 never played Wu Tang. It was so cool, the sorta shit Odd Future pull off now but Wu had better rappers.
So here is news that actor Michael K. Williams will be portraying the great man in a movie bio. The movie will be about ODB and his 22 year old manager and called Dirty White Boy. Apparently, being a legendary rapper a, the father of a coupla hundred kids, try to pick up the judge who is presiding at your trial and dieing young, isn't nearly enough. You need a a VH-1 assistant to fill it out.
I dunno, I guess I am happy to get anything at all on the big screen. Maybe, as a framing reference, maybe as a cultural check and balance, But it still feels like there simply isn't enough room to tell the story right. It's like ODB isn't big enough.
According to Entertainment Weekly:
Dirty White Boy focuses not just on ODB, born Russell Jones, but also on Jarred Weisfeld, the titular white boy, who met the musician when he was a 22-year-old VH1 production assistant. Weisfeld gradually became ODB's manager, Entertainment Weekly reports, engineering the rapper's comeback. His plan was cut short by Ol' Dirty Bastard's fatal drug overdose in November 2004."