ChrisDorner
Banned
I was born in 94 so I dont remember this dropping. Must have been HUGE though
How big was "Method Man" When it dropped?
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I was born in 94 so I dont remember this dropping. Must have been HUGE though
Big Mel
@bigboss
It was huge. A monster.
Very big. Dude had that spotlight on him while the rest of the Wu had to slightly play the background
Knicksman20
Superstar
Meth had a strong year in 94' & that single was fire. For a minute he was the face of Wu back then because of it.
FuckAllY'all77
Pro
It was huge, so was All That I Need. He was set to be the original 'star' in the Wu, before Ghost and Rae really became
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AntLive1981
All Star
I was a young bul but the song was mad popular, even if you didn't know the words everyone knew M-E-T-H-O-D....MAN!!!!! They played it in clubs back then too!
CashmereThoughts
Veteran
I didn't know ghost a Rae where fan favs above meth. Ghost is def my fav out the crew
FuckAllY'all77
Pro
Well, Ghost seemed to be from what I could see from around the time Supreme Clientele and his subsequent albums dropped, I
guess because they all ranged from classic to pretty good while most of the Clan's sophomore solos were not as well
received and just not as good in general.
Plus the the way Ghost and Rae would feed off each other on their debuts, their guest verse on The Infamous etc.
I definitely think that a lot of Wu fans considered them the strongest solo members for a while
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. Rae's album was the best produced album of 95, easily, and Ghost's album had classics + a cohesive theme in a way only Ghost could do it. Those are albums u can still find new things in 20 yrs later.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
I'm in the mid-west and that shyt was huge. it got a lot of play on BET/MTV/the Box and even on the radio.
It depends on where you were but it was dope and had people's attention. You have to remember in 94 a ton of shyt was dropping all the time and there was no machine behind most new acts but Meth and the Wu as a whole sound was so organic and sounded like nothing else at the time. I wouldn't say it was everywhere or big but people took notice. Meth killed that shyt. I still remember when The Mystery of Chessboxin video coming on Rap City and losing my shyt when ODB verse came on but that shyt use to get me so fukking hyped.
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beenz
Rap Guerilla
I'm in the minority, but I always thought ironman was better than OB4CL.
also, I agree with the Tical sentiments. I didn't think the album was that great outside of those singles like bring the pain and release yo delf either. I wasn't even a huge fan of the mary j blige single as I preferred the OG version.
matter of fact, out of the early wu shyt (1st gen solo albums), I thought meth's album was the worst. behind the likes of:
ODB
GZA
ghost
rae
beenz
Rap Guerilla
yup. it was all set up for meth. he had a solo song on 36 chambers. then the huge singles with bring the pain and all I need. plus he came with "how high" remix off the show soundtrack. everyone thought he was gonna be the frontman for the clan at first til other members dropped better projects than him.