00:00What's up, y'all?
00:00What it do?
00:01This Method Man right here,
00:02and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
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00:07All right.
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00:13All right.
00:14Where did Method Man grow up?
00:16Long Island and Staten Island,
00:18because my mom's, we moved to Staten Island
00:19from Brooklyn, actually,
00:21a place where you couldn't stay too long.
00:22Kind of like a shelter, but not a shelter.
00:24The lady that was one of the people that worked there,
00:27her and my mom got really tight,
00:28and that's how we ended up in Staten Island.
00:30Long Island, I was born there,
00:31so I always got a place in my heart for Hempstead,
00:34Long Island as a whole, period.
00:35Method Man, the Rock Wilder.
00:38This record, done by the person we named it after.
00:41I wanted to name it after him, show homage.
00:43Came up through the ranks
00:44with Eric Sherman, Redman, and those guys.
00:46Redman didn't like the record.
00:48It wasn't that he didn't like the record.
00:49He knew that Rock Wilder could do way better,
00:51because, like I said, they all came up through those ranks,
00:54so he was a little bit harder on Rock Wilder,
00:56but it turned out to be a hit.
00:57Rock Wilder, microphone checker.
00:59Method Man, Jay-Z tour.
01:01What was actually the Hard Knock Life tour?
01:03Yes, it was definitely Jay-Z's tour.
01:04Shout out to Jay-Z, doing magnificent things, man,
01:07big things for hip hop, as well as our culture as a whole.
01:11When we were asked to go on that,
01:12we knew what it entailed.
01:13We knew who the artists were.
01:15I mean, DMX, Jay-Z, you know, those are heavyweights,
01:18so myself and Redman,
01:19being that we were already veterans in the game,
01:21we kind of fit right in,
01:22and plus, I'm pretty sure Jay knew what me and Redman
01:25were capable of doing on stage,
01:26and it was a very successful tour.
01:28We did 54 dates, all of them sold out.
01:30There was even, I mean, we was getting so much money.
01:33When the thing happened in Columbine,
01:34everybody donated their paycheck,
01:36or rather, their show money to that cause
01:39for the kids that lost lives.
01:41We probably would've did it anyway,
01:42even if we weren't getting money,
01:43because sign of the times, that's what it is.
01:45But yeah, it was a pretty lucrative tour for everybody.
01:48Method Man, The Riddler.
01:51Love this record.
01:52Actually, the guitar riff is played
01:54by Old Dirty Bastard's older brother.
01:56Not too many people know that.
01:57Fun fact, we did this in RZA's basement before the flood.
02:01You know, us blurds, us black nerds,
02:04we love our comic books.
02:06And when the opportunity presented itself, The Riddler.
02:09I knew off the top that I wanted to do a bad guy song.
02:12The riff that Old Dirty Bastard's brother
02:15came up with was perfect,
02:17and I believe The Riddler played a major part
02:19in that album, you know, the whole soundtrack
02:22going 10 times platinum, you know.
02:24I like to say that in my head,
02:25but it was really sealed.
02:27Kiss from a Rose.
02:28And U2, U2, U2 had a great record on there as well.
02:32Yeah, The Riddler.
02:33Finally, what's happening Method Man?
02:39I don't know, chilling.
02:40Actually, that's a song that picked me.
02:42Busta had a record, and he came to me,
02:46and he was like, you need this record, Lord.
02:48And when Busta tell you you need a record,
02:51and it became the first single.
02:52So yeah, what's happening?
02:55What does Takao mean?
02:57Takao can mean a lot of things,
02:58but right now it means the top is cold and lonely.
03:02Well, I mean, it came from a word we used to use
03:04to describe trees, plants, flower.
03:07It was a word made up by a friend around my way
03:10named Loungin' Low.
03:11It took on its own life.
03:13So yeah, Takao means a lot of things,
03:14but right now, the top is cold and lonely.
03:18What the blood clot, Method Man.
03:20I was actually mad at the Klan when I wrote that record.
03:22I was on an airplane, playing my radio like that, right?
03:26Times have changed.
03:27They would never let me do that now.
03:28But I was playing my radio,
03:30and I kept rewinding an Eric Sherman record
03:34called It's All in the Mind.
03:35That's what I wrote What the Blood Clot to.
03:37I remember, because we got into a big argument
03:39before we got on the plane,
03:40and I was just mad at all of them,
03:42like Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to f*** with, f*** you guys.
03:46The what, Method Man, Biggie.
03:48This is crazy too,
03:49because I actually snuck to go do this record with Biggie.
03:53Tracy Waples, salute to Trey Walk.
03:56She came and scooped me up that night.
03:58And now, like I said,
03:59I wasn't supposed to be doing any records with anybody.
04:01I had my own album coming.
04:03Wu-Tang had steam, and we wanted to keep that,
04:05and home, you know, and the money as well.
04:07So I went and did the Biggie record.
04:08Big was mad cool.
04:10Contrary to what everybody believes,
04:11he wrote his rhyme right there when I wrote mine.
04:14Nobody was doing anything inside the head.
04:16And it was a fun time, man.
04:17The what, Method Man, Biggie.
04:19Brooklyn.
04:22All right, y'all got me embellishing too much.
04:24Is Method Man in power?
04:26Yes, I'm in power.
04:27I play Davis McLean on power.
04:29Very savvy lawyer.
04:31Anybody that follows the power universe
04:32know that lawyers don't fare too well on this show.
04:36So I think the fact that Davis is still alive
04:39for this fourth and final season
04:42says a lot about his character and a lot about me.
04:45Is Method Man in train wreck?
04:48Yes, I'm in train wreck.
04:49Had a lot of fun with the old cat, Norman.
04:52I forgot his last name, but he's been around forever.
04:55He was actually in the scene with me.
04:56He was the older cat
04:58that used to talk about Bade Roof all day.
05:01First time working with Judd Apatow.
05:02Not my first time.
05:04No, matter of fact, it wasn't my first time working with him.
05:06I actually read for the movie he did
05:08with Adam Sandler that RZA got.
05:10But Judd said that it is his life's mission
05:13to have every Wu-Tang member in at least one of his films.
05:16So he's got two down.
05:17He's got about seven more to go.
05:19Train wreck.
05:20Dope.
05:21Shout out to Amy Schumer.
05:22Hey, Muffin.
05:23Is Method Man a Jets fan?
05:25Abs-a-freaking-lutely.
05:27I'm a Long Island kid.
05:28I mean, we grew up on Jets and Mets.
05:31Not too big on basketball, but Jets and Mets
05:33were always synonymous with Long Island, Queens.
05:35You know what I'm saying?
05:36New York Sack Exchange.
05:38Those guys, I mean, even Richard Todd.
05:40You know what I mean?
05:41He was my guy for a minute.
05:44Wesley Walker.
05:45Freeman McNeil.
05:45The Big Tuna.
05:46We had Keyshawn for a while.
05:48Rob Moore, who I grew up with.
05:50Rob Moore was a wide receiver for the team.
05:52So yeah, I've been a Jets fan for life.
05:54Salute.
05:56Where did Method Man get his name?
06:01Took it from a n***a.
06:02No, actually, it's a block name.
06:05Like I said, we had different terminology for trees
06:07and Method was one of the terms that we used
06:10to describe trees.
06:11And I felt like the man.
06:13So yeah, Method Man.
06:14Just fit.
06:15Is Method Man in the wire?
06:17Yes, I am in the wire, but I am not wired
06:19because I am no snitch.
06:21I actually played a character called Melvin Cheese Wagstaff.
06:27Nephew of Prop Joe.
06:28Cheese was a piece of work.
06:29I think Cheese was a survivor,
06:30but anybody that watched the show
06:33would think he's a piece of s***.
06:34I won't give any spoilers away,
06:35but he does something that's against code
06:38and he deserved everything that he got.
06:40Is Method Man going on tour?
06:43No, sir.
06:44Method Man is more focused on acting.
06:47That is first position for me.
06:49So unless the movie is about a tour,
06:52Method Man would not be on tour anytime soon.
06:55But we do actually have a residency in Vegas, Wu-Tang.
06:58If you can catch it, come out.
06:59It's pretty fun.
07:00You know, bring you and your old lady.
07:02No kids.
07:03Method Man best songs?
07:05I got one.
07:06One that I think is my best song
07:09and it's definitely all I need, of course.
07:11Got me a Grammy.
07:12It actually was Mary's first Grammy.
07:15She's gotten plenty more after that, as she should.
07:18The fact that it was a song
07:20that I didn't even want to put out
07:21and it did what it did
07:23just shows how much I know about music.
07:26Why did you want to put it out?
07:28In my eyes, it wasn't a traditional love song,
07:31but it was still a love song,
07:32which wasn't, in my idea,
07:34something that I wanted to put out at that point in time.
07:37Look, keep Googling,
07:39Starbucks, whatever, man.
07:40I don't even entertain any of that s**t.
07:44Y'all be good.
07:45Stay out of trouble.
