Method Man had potential to be a top 10 rapper what happened?

[Da King]

as a top mc Snoop stopped rapping with the doggfather...but thats just my opinion.

That just means you stopped listening to him after doggfather

 

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

Him and Red ruined each other....they were both incredible artists before they became a duo then they became corny as fukk...same nikkas/whiteboys listening to Red n Meth by 1999 were the ones listening to Korn and Limp Bizkit

This is exactly what happened. The 'corny' shyt cancelled out their 'weirdness', which is what set em apart from other MCs.

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Him and Red ruined each other....they were both incredible artists before they became a duo then they became corny as fukk...same nikkas/whiteboys listening to Red n Meth by 1999 were the ones listening to Korn and Limp Bizkit

I was only 9

 

[Asicz]

Eh Meth even in his prime is not ia Top 10 of All Time Rapper. TOP 25 he can squeeze in their in his prime.

But yeah 94-98 one of the best feature rappers if not the best and one of the most requested feature rappers of the era. Meth in his prime is a problem.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Define success. He may not have critic appeal, but he's a household name. Most people with even the faintest idea of rap and the Wu know who Method Man is. He's had a decent acting career for a rapper and is possibly one of the most consistent, albeit unspectacular, rappers ever. He'll kill a verse today better than anyone in the Wu save for maybe Rae or Deck

His lack of material is the biggest disappointment, but then again you have nerds on here putting Jay Electronica on their Top 5s

 

[DarkmanX]

The "machine" Wayne had behind him was no bigger than whatever Wu/Meth had in the 90's(we talking about the 90s breh)

Universal had less to do with it than you think. Wayne had the streets and the internet. The nikka had mixtape songs on the radio. Universal didn't pop up until he the hottest nikka out

Nobody really got tired of Wayne until 2012, but from 08-end of 11 I never heard something like that

In Meths case I was half joking but if he had lets say Ghost's output he'd be farther along

He had literally everything else going for him at the time

Universal had less than i think? No, i think its MORE than YOU think. Lol at streets & internet. Again, that's part of the machine. No artist blows up out of nowhere. If you believe he just blew at that time out of nowhere then you're ass out. And what you mean Universal didnt pop until..? Universal were the same ones who gave Hot Boys/Cash Money their famed rare contract 1998 (really to compete with No Limit at the time) and also Wayne signed a deal with them around 2004, you do know that right? Which funny enough was right before Carter 1..which was the beginning of his streak right? So again, i think you know less than you think.

And idk what the first comment "we talking about the 90s breh" is suppose to mean? What, that the "machine" was as big back then? If thats what you mean then its hilariously ignorant. Just cuz people celebrate that era now does not make it factual. Hiphop was still believed to not make it past a few years up until the late 90s. Plus hip-hop was a gamble for investors. The demographi wasnt as big (as hip-hop hadnt fully blown up worldwide in terms of popularity), it was harder to market stuff since they were cussin and having a street image and so they were way way less advertizers/sponsors & label investments compared to the mid 00s. The difference is ridiculously huge.

 

[Way Of The Gun]

Meth was his own worst critic and he always put his Wu family before himself..he said if he wanted to, he could've dropped numerous albums, due to him being the most popular and noticeable, but his loyalty was to the Clan first. People seem to forget he never really stopped (dropped 2 Blackout albums with Redman, put in work with all the Clan albums, dropped an EP with Rae and Ghost, in the midst of spitting guest verses and acting in between) so the "lazy" comment can be dead...Meth was always dropping blistering guest verses on other artists' records in between yet taking so much time on his own stuff to make sure he put in that same energy. In a way that so humbling, yet it crippled him..

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Him and Red ruined each other....they were both incredible artists before they became a duo then they became corny as fukk...same nikkas/whiteboys listening to Red n Meth by 1999 were the ones listening to Korn and Limp Bizkit

Blackout was a classic LP but it was also their last great work respectively

redman still gave us some classic Soopaman Luva songs on Malpractice though