Ol' Dirty Bastard

Music spots

• Venue

  Radio City Music Hall

  1984–1998

  The first MTV Video Music Awards were held here on 14 September 1984. Madonna came out of a 17-foot wedding cake to sing “Like a Virgin”, and Cyndi Lauper, the night’s most-nominated artist, won Best Female Video for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, per Wikipedia. At the 40th Grammy Awards here on 25 February 1998, Erykah Badu and Fiona Apple both performed and won, per Wikipedia and the Recording Academy, and Ol' Dirty Bastard rushed the stage as Shawn Colvin took it to accept Song of the Year, per Wikipedia.

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• Moment

  Wu-Tang Clan District

  2019

  The sign for the Wu-Tang Clan District stands at the corner of Targee Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in Park Hill, where the video for “Can It All Be So Simple” was filmed. City officials, fans and several of the group’s members gathered for its unveiling in May 2019, after a unanimous City Council vote, per 6sqft.

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• Mural

  Wu-Tang Clan mural

  2021

  Will Power’s 100-foot wall of ten hand-painted portraits of the group’s members took ten days to complete and was unveiled in June 2021, per NY1. NYC Tourism names RZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Raekwon among the founding members front and center, and says the wall can be seen from Tappen Park.

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