Ol’ Soiled Bastard saved 4-year-old’s life by lifting automobile

The lifetime of ODB, the Wu-Tang Clan rapper who died in 2004, is being remembered within the new A&E documentary Ol’ Soiled Bastard: A Story of Two Dirtys, for a lifesaving act of kindness.

Maxine Lovell and her daughter Maati recalled, in an unique clip shared with PEOPLE, that the artist was certainly one of a dozen individuals who got here to the rescue when the lady, then 4, was hit by and trapped below a Ford Mustang exterior a Brooklyn recording studio in 1998.

“Some brothers got here from out of nowhere,” Lovell mentioned. “They lifted the automobile. Somebody slid [Maati] from beneath. She did not cry and he or she did not scream. She did not know what had occurred to her. However when she noticed my face, she began wailing.”

The little lady suffered burns and was taken to the hospital.

However Lovell mentioned the household’s relationship with the rapper continued.

“He stored checking [on us] — he did not simply depart it like that,” Lovell mentioned. “And I informed him, ‘Anytime it’s essential to speak, name me.’ So he would name me and inform me issues that have been in his head. And he was glad that he was there [when Maati needed help]. I feel he was attempting to show that he was man, and I mentioned, ‘I agree with that. You undoubtedly helped my baby.'”

Now an grownup, Maati famous that the Grammy nominee’s actions that day “reveals what kind of particular person he’s.”

ODB, whose actual identify was Russell Tyrone Jones, died of an unintended drug overdose two days earlier than he would have turned 36 at a recording studio in New York Metropolis.

The brand new documentary about him is billed as having “never-before-seen private archive shot by his spouse, Icelene Jones, and entry to his closest family and friends” and that it “humanizes ODB as a person, a father, and a husband.”

Ol’ Soiled Bastard: A Story of Two Dirtys additionally displays on the rapper’s legacy. It may be streamed on AETV.com with a cable subscription or on Hulu, Prime Video, and elsewhere with a streaming subscription to A&E.

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