ODB's latest rap is an arrest warrant.

After the rapper was a no-show in court Tuesday to face a shoplifting charge, a judge issued an arrest warrant for the founder of the popular group The Wu-Tang Clan.ODB, whose real name is Russell Tyrone Jones, is accused of stealing a $50 pair of Nike shoes from a Sneaker Stadium store in Virginia Beach on July 4, three days after he walked out of a New York hospital with gunshot wounds suffered during an apparent robbery at his apartment.

No lawyer appeared Tuesday in General District Court to represent ODB, 29. He had concerts scheduled for Tuesday night and Wednesday night in West Hollywood, Calif.

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In February, ODB crashed the stage at the Grammys and hijacked a microphone from Shawn Colvin. He apparently was upset at losing the best rap album Grammy to Puff Daddy.

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