Jan 11, 2005 • 1 min read

ODB's father disputes rapper's account of upbringing

William Jones, father of Ol Dirty Bastard, says the rapper falsely claimed a welfare upbringing, describing a stable two-parent home instead.

The father of Wu-Tang Clan co-founder Ol Dirty Bastard, who died last month of a drugs overdose, has disputed the rapper's version of his upbringing. William Jones has told the New York

Post's gossip page that, while ODB claimed to have grown up on welfare in the Fort Greene projects, in fact he grew up in "a stable two-parent home and loved to go fishing".

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