Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (Picture Disc Vinyl 2LP)

Ol' Dirty Bastard's 1995 Debut Solo Album Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version on Picture Disc 2LP.

2LP picture disc version of ODB’s 1995 debut album Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version. Features the classic tracks “Shimmy Shimmy Ya,” “Brooklyn Zoo,” "Hippa to Da Hoppa.”

It's safe to say that hip-hop has never seen an album like Ol' Dirty Bastard's 1995 solo debut Return to the 36 Chambers. The brief glimpses of ODB's unhinged genius provided by Wu-Tang Clan's landmark Enter the Wu-Tang album two years earlier were begging to be expanded on to a larger canvas, and, with RZA guiding production, the album promised to give Dirty the creative license to make one of the most bizarre, entertaining and original LPs in hip-hop history.

With his raspy, drunken flow and dark sense of humor, Dirty fearlessly attacks from all angles, throwing himself fearlessly into punchy rhyme attacks ("Damage," with GZA), drugged-out party jams (the monster singles "Brooklyn Zoo" and "Shimmy Shimmy Ya") and bizarre, grimly hilarious fantasies of sex and violence ("Don't U Know" and the R&B-tinged "Sweet Sugar Pie").

Backed by RZA's appropriately gritty, dissonant beats and appearances from the Wu Tang Clan, Return to the 36 Chambers became an instant hit, selling over 1 million copies and earning a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album in 1996. The album stands as a high water mark in the Wu Tang Clan's collective creative output and was selected as one of the Best 100 Rap Albums of all time by The Source magazine in 1998.