![]() ![]() ![]() Meth was heavily featured on the group’s classic late-1993 debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), even getting his own showcase track with ‘Method Man’, which certainly put him out front in terms of name recognition. It was the latter locale where he met his future Wu-Tang cohorts RZA, Genius/GZA, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard when they set about forming a Hip-Hop collective in the early ’90s, Method Man was one of the first to sign on. Method Man was born Clifford Smith on April 1, 1971, in Hempsted, Long Island he split his childhood between his father’s Long Island residence and his mother’s Staten Island home. Toward the end of the ’90s, his frequent team-ups with Redman produced not only terrific musical chemistry but an eventual big-screen comedy team as well. On his solo records, Method Man developed a persona that swung from offhand, understated menace to raucous stoner humour. His mush-mouthed, sandpaper-rough bellow (at times recalling EPMD‘s Erick Sermon) and imaginative rhymes easily made him one of the most recognizable, unpredictable MCs in the group, yet his flow was more deliberate and laid-back than the Wu’s resident loose cannon, Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Method Man was the first - and biggest - solo star to emerge from the groundbreaking Wu-Tang Clan. ![]()
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