Hip-hip legend and Top CelebStoner Method Man takes issue with an interview that made it seem like marijuana led to having his car repossessed.

The Daily News story in question - “Method Man Tells of Repo Madness” - appeared in the "Gatecrasher" gossip column on Mar. 28. That same day, CelebStoner was invited to interview Meth and fellow Top CelebStoner Redman on the set of a video shoot for their upcoming Blackout 2 release.

Meth spoke about the Daily News, his 2007 pot arrest in Brooklyn, Obama and the status of High High 2.

Steve Bloom: I saw the article in the Daily News. What’s that all about?
At the end of the interview me and the dude was laughing about shit and he quoted Afroman and I kinda agreed with him. Shit, exactly - I ain’t paid my bills because I got high. He put that down as a quote. He thought it was lighthearted and funny. Who the fuck is gonna believe a sorry fuckin’ excuse like that? I’m serious. I’d rather say that I fuckin’ let my dog eat my paperwork before I use that.

I just didn’t like the fact that they said that on the top of the article - 'cause a lot of people just read the headline and shit and look at the pictures and are like, Oh that’s interesting. Method Man says he didn’t pay his taxes because he was high.

Is that true?
I’m gonna tell you exactly how that shit happens. You go on the road and you forget things. When we go on the road, we don’t go on the road for two weeks -we don’t do weekend-warrior shit - we go out for two to three months. From there we go overseas. We stay on the road and shit, so by the time you come back shit is piled up.

You don’t have anybody helping you with bills and paperwork?
I have a CPA. My thing was, man - if the lights ain’t off yet, we good! That’s the 'hood mentality. I can pay the shit tomorrow, so we good.

Did they take your car?
Yeah, they took that motherfucker. They didn’t write the motherfuckin’ ticket. They said, We called your house and sent letters and shit. This was a week ago. I got it back on Monday (Mar. 23). It ain’t my car. It’s my wife’s car. They didn’t take my shit.

How did the weed bust go down?
That was some dumb shit too. Everybody got to glorify shit, but I was there so I know the truth. Yes, I did take a few pulls off the blunt and shit. Before I get to the (Brooklyn Battery) tunnel, I always did this as long as I been smokin’ weed and shit. When you on the BQE (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway), before you make that turn where that exit for Prospect (Expressway) is, you clip the blunt. I clipped the blunt. It was in the ashtray. I closed the ashtray. I’m riding through and shit and he (toll booth collector) looks at my (registration) sticker. They say I rolled the window down and all the smoke came out, which is totally false. They seen the sticker wasn’t right and he fuckin’ told me to roll the window down, so he could tell me my sticker wasn’t right. I rolled the window down and my weed ain’t no wack shit. I’d just bought hat shit! That shit had the whole car stinking!

The cop said your car looked like Cheech & Chong.
The cop said, He rolled down the window and a big-ass cloud of smoke came out like Cheech & Chong. That’s not what happened. What happened was I rolled down that window and he caught a whiff. He smelled the weed. Me being who I am, when he pulled me over, I was like, Aight, get out the car. "Do you got weed on you?" No, I ain’t got no weed on me and shit. "Do you have weed in the car?" Yeah, it’s right there by the seats. If you don’t tell ’em where it’s at, even if you don’t have it in there, they’ll tear you’re whole fuckin’ car up. I just told them off the top.

How much did you have?
An ounce.

That’s decriminalized in New York…
That shit don’t matter in post-Guiliani New York. They had my ass. They just wanted to keep my money. I had $5,000 in cash. They took it, but they didn’t keep it. Yeah, I smoke weed - I smoke! I don’t sell marijuana. I made that clear on top. I did the sobriety test because I really didn’t want them to take the car. I did better than the cop! When he told me to take the urinalysis pee test, I said, I don’t have to go to the bathroom. I peed before I got locked up.

You got locked up?
The locked my ass up! Kept me all night 'cause of weed. If they prove I have weed in my system, that’s where the DUI comes in, and then the DMV gets involved and they fuck your license. I just went and got it. I didn't have my license for two years! It was sittin’ at the DMV I just never went andget the shit. You know why? I just don’t fuckin’ feel like goin’ there to deal with it. So I don’t drive at all. I have roadies. I don’t drive AT ALL. Straight up.

Did you see Obama on TV joking about weed?
He’s gonna say, Yeah, I’m gonna look into that (legalization)? There’s no way he can say that. He’s black as hell, so you know he smoked.

Will there be a How High 2?
The guy who wrote the first one, Dustin Abraham, I gotta give him a swift kick in his ass. And give the people at Universal a swift kick in the ass. We gotta make this movie, but I don’t think we can do a How High 2. We'll do another stoner flick, but call it something else.

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