ODB's Legal Woes Multiply

Get out your Ol' Dirty Bastard arrest score card and take note: The Wu-Tang Clan member was cuffed on Saturday morning in New York after he allegedly ran a red light in his '94 Mercedes Benz.| The rapper (born Russell Jones) was pulled over at 2:43 a.m. in Queens Village and arrested by uniformed officers after he failed to produce his driver's license or vehicle registration.

Upon searching ODB's Benz, the officers found twenty bags of what appeared to be crack cocaine, as well as a baggie that seemed to contain marijuana, according to an NYPD spokesperson. The 105 Precinct charged the rapper with criminal possession of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of marijuana, aggravated unlicensed operator (driving without a license) and disobeying a red light.

ODB, who was arrested on similar charges in March, was arraigned on Saturday but has yet to be released. He is due back in court on August 13, according to a spokesperson for the Queens County District Attorney's office.

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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