The life of ODB, the Wu-Tang Clan rapper who died in 2004, is being remembered in the new A&E documentary Ol’ Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys, for a lifesaving act of kindness.
Maxine Lovell and her daughter Maati recalled, in an exclusive clip shared with PEOPLE, that the artist was one of a dozen people who came to the rescue when the girl, then 4, was hit by and trapped under a Ford Mustang outside a Brooklyn recording studio in 1998.
Bob Berg/Getty
“Some brothers came from out of nowhere,” Lovell said. “They lifted the car. Someone slid [Maati] from underneath. She didn’t cry and she didn’t scream. She didn’t know what had happened to her. But when she saw my face, she started wailing.”
The little girl suffered burns and was taken to the hospital.
But Lovell said the family’s relationship with the rapper continued.
“He kept checking [on us] — he didn’t just leave it like that,” Lovell said. “And I told him, ‘Anytime you need to talk, call me.’ So he would call me and tell me things that were in his head. And he was glad that he was there [when Maati needed help]. I think he was trying to prove that he was a good guy, and I said, ‘I agree with that. You definitely helped my child.'”
Now an adult, Maati noted that the Grammy nominee’s actions that day “shows what type of person he is.”
ODB, whose real name was Russell Tyrone Jones, died of an accidental drug overdose two days before he would have turned 36 at a recording studio in New York City.
The new documentary about him is billed as having “never-before-seen personal archive shot by his wife, Icelene Jones, and access to his closest friends and family” and that it “humanizes ODB as a man, a father, and a husband.”
Ol’ Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys also reflects on the rapper’s legacy. It can be streamed on AETV.com with a cable subscription or on Hulu, Prime Video, and elsewhere with a streaming subscription to A&E.
Sign up for Entertainment Weekly‘s free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.
Source link
