Return's title and various lyrics acknowledge Wu-Tang's self-built mythology, but Ol' Dirty Bastard's solo debut, like the man himself, runs on it's own idiosyncratic power. Rapping forcefully and on point-mumbling, singing, allowing weird wordless sounds to escape his throat in an assertion of his right to make random noise-ODB slips from mode to mode like Marvin Gaye juxtaposing the gruff and the smooth in the same song. The production, mostly by the RZA, sets the man down in the middle of funky, shape-shifting tracks to scream for blood, shout out to the Temptations and "you other grooops!" and threaten "any MC in any 52 states." "I love that guy," ODB secret identity Russell Jones declares of his alter ego at the outset; after a listen to this disc, it's likely at least part of you will, too.

Tracklist:

1 Intro
2 Shimmy Shimmy Ya
3 Baby C'mon
4 Brooklyn Zoo
5 Hippa to Da Hoppa
6 Rawhide
7 Damage
8 Don't U Know
9 The Stomp
10 Goin' Down
11 Drunk Game (Sweet Sugar Pie)
12 Snakes
13 Brooklyn Zoo II (Tiger Crane)
14 Proteck Ya Neck II the Zoo
15 Cuttin' Headz
16 Dirty Dancin' - By Ol' Dirty Bastard/Method Man
17 Harlem World