When the news hit worldwide that Rock The Bells will be having ODB & Eazy-E holograms, Icelene Jones (ODB’s widow) wasn’t having it. Back in May, she issued a cease-&-desist order against Guerilla Union, claiming that she wasn’t contacted directly to get permission, since she’s the sole administrator of the ODB estate. Now, everything is all straightened out and Chang Weisberg & Young Dirty Bastard sat down with HipHopDX to talk about how it all got concluded.

• “Icelene [Jones] and the estate are 100 percent onboard and we’ll be releasing a joint statement very soon,” (Chang) Weisberg told HipHopDX on Tuesday (July 30). “I can tell you that they’re 100 percent on board and supportive as well as Cherry [Jones, Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s mother]. This has probably been the most positive experience for the entire family. That’s what’s going to separate the performance from anything that’s been done before because the family is going to be involved in the process, in the creation and the direction of this experience.”
• “At first, when it was reported that I was issued a cease and desist, I was never issued a cease and desist at that point,” Weisberg said. “I was finally, many more weeks after that, contacted by the family, at which point they said that they had issued a cease and desist, but wanted to talk to us. It was more just protocol. I don’t think they knew who to contact. To be honest, I didn’t even know who Icelene Jones was and that’s no fault to any side. It’s just, in 10 years of dealing with Wu-Tang, I’ve always dealt with Cherry. That’s been mom. That’s all the members. She used to be Dirty’s manager. So, with that said, I still had the full endorsement of Cherry and of the group. Then, I come to find who the family members are and the controllers of the estate, which I was happy to. This was a good vetting out process and a needed dialogue began.”  

Read the entire interview over at HipHopDX!