FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST!

Our long national nightmare is over.

Ol' Dirty Bastard (a.k.a. Russell Jones) was freed today after spending more than two years incarcerated on drug charges. On his first day of freedom, ODB (who has also gone by the handle Big Baby Jesus and Osiris) appeared at a New York City press conference to announce his signing with Roc-A-Fella records, the obligatory new line of clothes and the assumption of yet another identity: Dirt McGirt. Roc-A-Fella CEO Damon Dash and Mariah Carey were present along with ODB's mother, wife and his crew the Brooklyn Zoo.

Oh, he'll always be the hurricane.