Is Method Man's career a disappointment or underrated?

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When it first came out I thought it was dope from beginning to end. I thought Meth has had a very successful career overall. Memorable songs/albums and was able to get some acting gigs.
 

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Not to me. It's a good album. 3.5/4 mics but it's in no way a classic. It has classic singles and some dope records but some really skippable songs.

People have a tendency to call everybody's first album classic.

shyt, Tical is just as good as Reasonable doubt....
 

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Thing with Meth is he has a sick voice/flow and has rhymes for days but he never had the knack for crafting complete songs and albums the way Ghost, Rae and GZA do. I always like Meth a lot better on Wu albums and guest spots than I did as a solo artist. Same goes for Deck.
 

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meth had a nice run making top mcmoney from 93-00. blackout was successful. how high turned into a cult classic. hes one of the best live mcs there is, his show is incredible;especially wioth red/ hes the main attractiomn to wu tang. he has a movie career now. his wprst a;lbum was tical 0 which was handled by bad boy tyo make meth commercial, 421 was better, meth lab/crystal meth is coming.

meth is criminally underrated. tical is a classic.
 

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nikkaz gotta learn to separate what they like from whats classic. In no way is Tical a classic album
spawned classic singles

all i need
bring the pain

[lat, highest sellin wu album and their firsy solo that it jumped off from/

lesser hip hop albums get classic credit over tical only because wu tang was lihght years ahead of everyone else and managed to drop classics every quater.
 

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I was thinking about this

Pros

1) He's the most popular member of the most popular/arguably best rap group ever
2) He does have classic songs
3) One of the best flows/deliveries ever, possibly the best

Cons

1) No classic albums
2) Sharp decline in skills for a period before he gained it back
3) Outshined by Redman all through the Black Album
4) Multiple members within his group made better albums than him

I see this all the time on this board..but I don't see how Red out shined him..Just off the top of my head, Da Rockwilder, You, Blackout, Run 4 Cover Meth was spittin' the hottest fiyah.

Give me some songs where Red was bodying Meth.

*cues up Blackout album
 

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nikkaz gotta learn to separate what they like from whats classic. In no way is Tical a classic album

Exactly. Tical is a good album and I enjoy it but it's not classic at all. Every good album from the 90s isn't a classic
 
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it's actually both because meth at the start of his career had it just about all but then once his popularity waned he went almost unnoticed except by wu fans even though he was consistently improvin' lyrically as an mc (altho production wise, tical the prequel was wack with only like a very few exception; "the afterparty" with ghost was my shyt). but he's been one of the most consistent emcees on a skills level, not just out of the wu but period even when his and wu's popularity wasn't and or hasn't been at it's most high outside of wu fans

4:21 was 1 of the most slept on albums of the 2000s
 

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I see this all the time on this board..but I don't see how Red out shined him..Just off the top of my head, Da Rockwilder, You, Blackout, Run 4 Cover Meth was spittin' the hottest fiyah.

Give me some songs where Red was bodying Meth.

*cues up Blackout album

It's been a minute since I heard the album in full, but even off your list I thought Red outshined Meth easily on Blackout song and Da Rockwilder. I just remember rewinding Red's verses way more often than Method's.
 
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