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Method Man is a renowned American rapper, record producer, and actor who rose to fame as a member of the Wu-Tang Clan and the hip hop duo Method Man & Redman. He has also appeared in various films and TV shows, including a Grammy Award-winning collaboration with Mary J. Blige.
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Clifford Smith, Jr. (born March 2, 1971), better known by his stage name Method Man, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. He is a member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan, and is half of the hip hop duo Method Man & Redman. He took his stage name from the 1979 film Method Man. In 1996, Method Man won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for “I’ll Be There for You/You’re All I Need to Get By”, featuring R&B singer Mary J. Blige, with whom he currently stars in Power Book II: Ghost, a spin-off of Power.
Method Man has appeared in films such as 187 (1997), Belly (1998), How High (2001), Garden State (2004), The Wackness (2008), Venom (2005), Red Tails (2012), Keanu (2016), and The Cobbler (2014). He and frequent collaborator rapper Redman co-starred on the short-lived Fox television sitcom Method & Red. He has also had recurring roles in three HBO series, as Tug Daniels in Oz, Melvin “Cheese” Wagstaff in The Wire, and Rodney in The Deuce. Method Man also appeared in the TBS comedy series The Last O.G..
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Method Man is the stage name of Clifford Smith, Jr., an American rapper, record producer, and actor. He is a member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan and is half of the hip hop duo Method Man & Redman.
Method Man was born on March 2, 1971. He took his stage name from the 1979 film of the same name.
In 1996, Method Man won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for ,I’ll Be There for You/You’re All I Need to Get By,, featuring R&B singer Mary J. Blige. He has also appeared in various films and TV shows, including Oz, The Wire, and The Deuce.
Method Man is a member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan, a group he has been a part of throughout his career.
Method Man’s frequent collaborator is rapper Redman, and the two have co-starred on the short-lived Fox television sitcom Method & Red.
Method Man currently stars in Power Book II: Ghost, a spin-off of the Starz series Power, alongside R&B singer Mary J. Blige.
26 Quotes by Method Man
- 1.
I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin’ but the greens.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 2.
I want to do a documentary about strippers, ’cause it’s a moneymaker.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 3.
No matter where you from, there’s ghettos all over the place.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
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I’m a peaceful dude.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 5.
The most I’ve smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 6.
After a while, you can’t get any higher. It’s like your head is in a wind tunnel – everything is vibrating.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 7.
I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 8.
I’m a rapper trying to be an actor.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 9.
One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 10.
I’m in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 11.
Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we’re gonna get searched.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 12.
There’s probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 13.
Yeah I’m telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you’re going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 14.
I’d have a sex scene with Whoopi Goldberg or Star Jones.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 15.
Now we just showin’ and provin’ that there’s a ghetto everywhere you go.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 16.
People know when you’re frontin’.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 17.
Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 18.
Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late ’95.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 19.
Rap is a gimmick, but I’m for the hip-hop, the culture.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 20.
I don’t think any gay dude is gangsta, period.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 21.
We smoked a lot of cloves.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 22.
So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school – but I got caught.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 23.
When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 24.
We just wanna see where we stand at right now with our fans.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 25.
It’s been so long since I was in a real fight.
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)
- 26.
How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?
Method ManAmerican rapper (born 1971)