Remember the days of the good old Method Man, the raw style with the gasp for air between bars? It looks like they weren’t all good days. “I was unfocused. It’s like ignorance was bliss for me in those years…I didn’t know what was at stake when I did that first video ‘Bring the Pain’ [and] came to the set dusted. That’s why I looked crazy like that … Niggas was high! Not just weed high. Dust. Angel dust high.”
However, it is was the poor reception of his second album that turned Meth around, “The second album [1998’s Tical 2000: Judgement Day] was unfocused. My head was in the clouds somewhere. I was like, ‘Yeah, I can do this. This ain’t nothing. I can do this by myself!’ That’s the mistake a lot of us make…What was bringing me down was the drugs, the partying, the drinking and the fake love kept me blinded for a long time. [For example, people said,] ‘You’re already established, you ain’t gotta work hard.’ That type of fake love.”
Meth has taken a step away from his past with his new album as he is not recording it in Wu’s 36 Chambers studio. He is actually recording the album in Puffy’s studio with Bad Boy VP Harve Pierre, who is the album’s executive producer. That isn’t to say that the Wu isn’t represented on his album, Raekwon and Ghostface are slated to appear and RZA will do some production. Former Common producer (first 3 albums), No I.D. will contribute as well. Look out for this one in the spring via Def Jam.
