Method Man
4:21 The Day After
4/5

Ice Cube, LL Cool J, Will “Fresh Prince” Smith. What do these rappers have in common? They all fell way the fuck off after putting out the most successful records of their careers. This is what I thought about Method Man too. I mean seriously, MTV shows about crashing with rich white families from the south and deodorant commercials don’t exactly leave me wondering what your records sound like. Especially if you’re the guy from the Wu that wore the fangs. Then I heard 4:21 The Day After.

Method Man has made this record to call jerks like me out. The rhymes are all A-Game material about how everyone has more or less given up on Tical. Lines like Don’t ever count me out, just count me in! and I’ll stop changing my style when y’all stop stealing it let us know that Johnny Blaze is back. And means it. The stabs at the music industry are too frequent to name and so scathing you have to hear them to get the full idea of how pissed Meth can get.

The principal producers on this album are a bunch of familiar names. The RZA is responsible for a fair amount of the beats and Eric Sermon does almost everything else. These beats are straight up east coast grooves. The kind that make you want to drive an Escalade. With one exception: “Say.” Built around a sample of Lauryn Hill covering a Bob Marley classic, “Say” makes you wonder if this track was made just to be a hit, while still slamming all the naysayers.

With the Ghostface’s Fishscale and 4:21 both out this year one thing is still clear, more than a decade later, Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothing to fuck with.

Track Listing:

1. Intro
2. Is it me?
3. Problem
4. Somebody Done Fucked Up.
5. Shaolin Soldier
6. Fall Out
7. Dirty Mef
8. 4:20
9. Let’s Ride
10. The Glide
11. Kids
12. Got To Have it
13. Say
14. Ya’Meen
15. Konichiwa Bitches
16. Everything
17. Walk On
18. Pimpin’
19. Presidential MC
20. 4 Ever

- Josh Fucking Last 

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