Quick Hit: Surprise, Surprise, Method Man Says Some Crazy Sh*t

The thing I've always liked about Method Man is that he always just says what's on his mind - the man apparently has no internal filter. (Remind me to tell the story of the time he borrowed a dollar, literally, from me sometime.) So when he sat down with Complex to talk about his 2 favorite songs he ended up revealing some extraordinary Wu-Tang revelations, including but not limited to the fact that ODB stole GZA's rhymes for his solo album "Return to the 36 Chambers", Method and Raekwon never really got along and the whole group half-assed their way through "Iron Flag".

Sample's below, hit Complex for the full run down.



“‘C.R.E.A.M.’ was the one that really put us on the map if you wanna be technical. I wasn’t there when they recorded ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ I came in after the fact. RZA was like, ‘Put a hook on this song’ and I put a hook on it. That’s how it always went. I liked doing hooks.

The hook for that was done by my man Raider Ruckus. We used to work at the Statue of Liberty and when we were coming home we used to come up with all these made-up words that were acronyms.

We had words like ‘BIBWAM’ which meant, ‘Bitches Is Busted Without A Man’ and all this other crazy shit. Raider Ruckus was so ill with the way he put the words together. We would call money ‘cream’ so he took each letter and made a word out of it and killed it the way he did it.

Something like that had never been done before as far as a hook or even a way of speaking. This is just showing and proving that we paid attention in class when we was kids. You can’t do shit like that unless you got a brain in your fucking head! You got to have some level of intelligence to do something like that.

The best acronym for a word that I heard was ‘P.R.O.J.E.C.T.S.’ by Killah Priest. He said ‘People Relying On Just Enough Cash To Survive.’ And he’s the one that came up with ‘Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth,’ the acronym for B.I.B.L.E. This ain’t no fluke shit man."

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