Before Russell Tyrone Jones was known as Ol’ Dirty Bastard or ODB, he went by the moniker Ason Unique.
Before the Wu-Tang Clan founding member passed away on November 13, 2004, he changed his stage name again from Ol’ Dirty Bastard to Big Baby Jesus and then to Dirt McGirt and then he passed away in a Manhattan studio, two days before his 36th birthday.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s posthumous and third album was titled A Son Unique but it got canceled by and was never released after ODB was posthumously dropped from Roc-A-Fella Records.