Putnam Avenue in Brooklyn’s Mattress-Stuy neighborhood now shares a reputation with one of the influential rappers of all time. Yesterday, with an official ceremony that introduced collectively mates, household, and authorities officers, Putnam Avenue additionally turned ODB Jones Approach, named after Wu-Tang Clan co-founder Ol’ Soiled Bastard.
The hip-hop legend was born Russell Tyrone Jones in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene. In a video from NYC photographer Howard Weiss, ODB’s brother Ramsey Jones, defined that the signal went up on the nook of Franklin Avenue and Putnam Avenue, on the identical block the place their grandmother nonetheless lives. That block additionally homes a mural of the duvet of ODB’s debut album, Return To The 36 Chambers: The Soiled Model.
Try clips and pictures beneath.
