Deep Cuts Vol. 398: Method Man
Over the past few weeks, I've made playlists of the Wu-Tang Clan as well as the solo catalogs of Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, RZA, GZA, and now Method Man, and I think I'll wrap up the Wu program and do Meth's other longtime collaborator Redman next.
Method Man deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. What The Blood Clot f/ RZA and Y-Kim The Illfigure
2. Stimulation
3. Meth Vs. Chef f/ Raekwon
4. Tical
5. Mr. Sandman f/ RZA, Inspectah Deck, Streetlife, Carlton Fisk, and Blue Raspberry
6. Play IV Keeps f/ Streetlife, Inspectah Deck, and Mob Deep
7. Torture
8. Cradle Rock f/ Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Booster
9. Big Dogs f/ Redman
10. 1, 2, 1, 2, with Redman
11. Run 4 Cover with Redman, Ghostface Killah, and Streetlife
12. Cisco Kid with Redman, Cypress Hill, and War
13. We Some Dogs f/ Redman and Snoop Dogg
14. The Prequel f/ Streetlife
15. The Turn f/ Raekwon
16. Dirty Mef f/ Ol' Dirty Bastard
17. Got To Have It
18. Four Minutes To Lock Down with Redman, Raekwon, and Ghostface Killah
19. It's That Wu Shit with Ghostface Killah
20. The Purple Tape with Inspectah Deck and Raekwon
21. Episode 9 - Ronins f/ Hanz On, Cappadonna, and Masta Killa
22. Switch Sides f/ Jadakiss, Eddy I, and 5th PXWER
Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 from Tical (1994)
Tracks 6, 7, 8, and 9 from Tical 2000: Judgement Day (1998)
Tracks 10 and 11 from Blackout! with Redman (1999)
Track 12 from How High: The Soundtrack with Redman (2001)
Tracks 13, 14, and 15 from Tical 0: The Prequel (2004)
Tracks 16 and 17 from 4:21... The Day After (2006)
Track 18 from Blackout! 2 with Redman (2009)
Track 19 from Wu-Massacre with Raekwon and Ghostface Killah (2010)
Track 20 from The Meth Lab (2015)
Track 21 from Meth Lab Season 2: The Lithium (2018)
Track 22 from Meth Lab Season 3: The Rehab (2022)
Method Man was Wu-Tang's first breakout star, the biggest seller out of the crew, and one of hip-hop's most enduring sex symbols for 30 years and counting. But Tical is always looked at as an album that could've been better, not as revered other classic era Wu solo albums like Cuban Linx or Liquid Swords, to say nothing of other '94 debuts like Illmatic and Ready To Die. That's a dope album, though, in fact so is the follow-up. Tical 2000: Judgement Day is one of those very long albums where the two singles, which were cool but didn't have huge crossover appeal, were buried on track 25 and track 27. Sure, there are parts of the album that haven't aged well, like "Donald Trump (skit)," an 11-second track of the future president leaving Meth a voicemail unconvincingly feigning impatience for the rapper's second album, but there's some great stuff on there.
Method Man is really part of two franchises: Wu-Tang, and his partnership with Redman, which has yielded two albums, the profitable feature film How High (directed by Jesse Dylan, son of Bob) and its soundtrack, and a short-lived network sitcom. Blackout! is about as good as no stakes pop rap gets, it might actually be better than any of Meth's solo albums. His later solo albums are hit-and-miss, sometimes he kind of got lost in making whatever a famous Def Jam rapper was supposed to be making at the time. But he's got more grimey Wu-Tang-style solo stuff than he gets credit for, and it was fun to cherry pick that stuff for a playlist like this.
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