While it’s likely unrelated to “Hi” but not insignificant, Ma Dukes told Ronnie Reese in Wax Poetics that during one stay in the ICU, Dilla wasn’t fully coherent for two days and would ramble to himself, but she heard him talking to someone named “OD,” murmuring “Okay, I’ll wait on the bus, the white bus … okay, I won’t get the red bus. Don’t get the red bus.” When she asked him about it later, Dilla told her he’d seen Wu-Tang MC Ol’Dirty Bastard, who died in 2004: “He explained that ODB told him not to catch the red bus—everyone that catches the red bus goes to hell. He was to wait for ODB
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