How big was "Method Man" When it dropped?

[L. Deezy]

Meth IS one of my Favorite Rappers - Underrated and one oft he best flows in the game

He floats on effortlessly on Wu tracks




And Besides Jay the only rapper (IMO) to hold his own toe for toe with Biggie on wax.



"Verse 2/ comin' with that old hebrew
Meth-Tical/ Putting nikkas back in I.C.U
I'm lifted troop/ you can bring ya wack ass crew
I got connections/ I'll get that ass stuck like glue"

Wait I thought that was Olde E brew?? lol

 

[youreWelcomeBk]

Wait I thought that was Olde E brew?? lol

It is

Check my edit game out tho

 

[Rapmastermind]

I wouldn't call him the star member simply cuz his solo discography is so underwhelming.

But that doesn't mean he's not the Star. Meth still is the highest selling Solo Wu Member. He's the only solo member with multiple Platinum albums. He won a Grammy. He's been on crossover songs. He's ton TV show and movies. Outside Rza, who in Wu is more popular and the Star? Sure we love Ghost catalog but he's not a Star like Meth. Rae Cuban Linx may be the best solo but he's not a Star like Meth. Meth is the biggest Wu member as far as superstar status. I don't think that can even be disputed. Meth even made that Limp Bizikit song hot, come on man:

 

[AMcV'88]

speaking of Meth

i bought Tical in like 03 thinking this song would be on it & Bring Da Pain..first Wu related album i heard, i gave it one listen and nearly frisbee'd it.
then my cousin basically forced me to listen to 36 Chambers..once i heard Bring Da Ruckus it all clicked..he should have just told me Method Man was on 36 Chambers..saying that, the most overrated skit (if there is one) is on before it.

i still rarely listen to Tical...go back to Meth vs Chef every now and then though.

 

[H.I.M.]

Unless you were from :nyflabbynsick: the Song was more or less Irrelevant.

Have no recollection of this song or video whatsoever...the joint w/ Mary J was WAY bigger.

Bone/Eazy along w/ Snoop/Death Row, Face/Geto Boys, Pac RAN rap in '93-94... outside of nikkas in :nyflabbynsick: nobody was really checkin' for Meth, Wu or any NY rappers like that until BIG started to blow the following year.

 

[Nature's Fury]

i'm from Atlanta and he blew the fukk up with All I Need...i remember seeing this video back in the day, but i don't think it was huge like that...the west coast still had shyt on lock around that time...

 

[beenz]

Wait I thought that was Olde E brew?? lol

it is

 

[beenz]

Unless you were from :nyflabbynsick: the Song was more or less Irrelevant.

Have no recollection of this song or video whatsoever...the joint w/ Mary J was WAY bigger.

Bone/Eazy along w/ Snoop/Death Row, Face/Geto Boys, Pac RAN rap in '93-94... outside of nikkas in :nyflabbynsick: nobody was really checkin' for Meth, Wu or any NY rappers like that until BIG started to blow the following year.

that's there. I was fukkin with wu when they first dropped out here. and I knew plenty of cats that fukked with them in 93. I only kinda fukked with biggie before that, cuz ready to die hadn't dropped, and I only knew him from "party and bullshyt" off the who's the man soundtrack.

 

[Techniec]

All I Need made him a star but Method made him known

Method still my fav wu member and truly they dropped the ball with tical no reason Method shouldn't have been on that snoop biggie level

 

[FreshAIG]

Method was and always will be the star of Wu tang

 

[H.I.M.]

that's there. I was fukkin with wu when they first dropped out here. and I knew plenty of cats that fukked with them in 93. I only kinda fukked with biggie before that, cuz ready to die hadn't dropped, and I only knew him from "party and bullshyt" off the who's the man soundtrack.

Well sir... i'm from the District of Columbia and i cannot recall a single soul that seriously listened to Wu/Meth or owned a tape of theirs when i was coming up...infact, you woulda got straight up laughed at if you listened to the WU where i'm from...i take it you're a cac of some sort? And i said the "following year" meaning the year after. Biggie was bumped HEAVY over here in DC...unlike Meth and most of those WU nikkas he was able to gain a large following outside of the NY market and the cac and :cornballbrother: market.

And pay attention to the question...how big was"Method Man" when it dropped... and all signs point to it being a regional hit...but not really nothing that encapsulated the nation when it dropped..today was my very 1st time seeing that video (and i seen the Mary J joint a gazillion times) Nothing comparable to the shyt that Bone/Eazy, Snoop/Death Row, Face/Geto Boys was dropping at the time.

 

[Drip Bayless]

As far as the thing with the flood, wasn't the most or all of the RZA beats set for Decks first album lost then?

I remember hearing this somewhere, and thinking a mid to late 90s Deck album with Ironman/Liquid Swordz level production
would have been

Yeah Deck got fukked over forreal. Considering he was probably the 2nd most lyrically gifted dude in the clan, if he had gotten some beats from the Ruler at his prime, he could've gotten some shine

 

[DarkmanX]

You have to remember in 94 a ton of shyt was dropping all the time and there was no machine behind most new acts

Uh, what? I dont know where you think that makes sense. Maybe not machines as big becuz rap - as a industry - was just bubbling in the mainstream & bringing in advertisers & so on but there's always a machine.

As for Wu, other than being different and having good music, what hyped them up was also the fact that they were on that 5% shyt. Even the whole 36 Chambers is basically a underlying meaning & message of that. Same thing when Illmatic came. Same with Brand Nubian. Same with a few other acts/albums/songs.

That NOI/5% thing had it's agenda at the time so that played a part in it who had hype too.

 

[Monoblock]

Uh, what? I dont know where you think that makes sense. Maybe not machines as big becuz rap - as a industry - was just bubbling in the mainstream & bringing in advertisers & so on but there's always a machine.

I misspoke. There were machines behind artists but I was comparing it to today's machines and how big they've gotten. My bad.

 

[Zero]

Yea I was born in 83 and grew up in NYC... I liked Meth but Ghost and Rae were on another level to me.

I think what killed Meth was he had great, great, great singles (Bring the Pain, Release Yo Delf), but his album wasn't that good. It still had that dusty ass 36 Chambers sound which really only could work once.

Nah bruh, I loved Tical just for that

But other than that, you right.

Tical 2000 had some good tracks but WAY too much filler.

Tical 0 was