Choice excerpts from the New York Times’s semi-obituary for Ol’ Dirty Bastard:

“Somehow an entropic octet obsessed with obscure kung fu movies and even more obscure neo-Gnostic theology became one of the decade’s most visible pop-culture brand names.”

“No cause of death has been determined, but already, as often happens, wild anecdotes and bits of speculative biography are threatening to obscure the exhilarating music that won him so many fans.”