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His 2006 album, 4:21…The Day After, begins with a rally chant to “legalize it,” serving notice that one of hip-hop’s greatest performers and potheads was back with a message.  If there were a Hip-Hop Hall of Fame, Method Man, or less formerly Meth, would certainly be among the first inductees. His smoky voice and glib personality remains strong many years after he came up as Wu-Tang Clan’s lead rapper.
Born Clifford Smith in Shaolin (Staten Island, NY) on Apr. 1, 1971, Method Man appeared on the cover of High Times in 1998 and in How High, the stoner movie with Redman in 2001. He and Red first teamed up on Blackout! in 1999, and in 2004 they had a short-lived TV show, Method and Red. Meth had a longtime recurring role as drug dealer Calvin “Cheese” Wagstaff on HBO’s The Wire and has appeared in such movies as Meet the Spartans, Garden State, Soul Plane, Copland and Belly. He plays a Rasta ganja dealer in the 2008 stoner flick, The Wackness.
Meth'sTical trilogy – beginning in 1994 and continuing with Tical 2000: Judgment Day (1998) and Tical 0: The Prequel (2004) – is an unabashed ode to weed. For 4:21…, he played with the popular stoner numerology and even raps about it directly on "4:20.” He's currently working on Crystal Method and Blackout 2 with Redman.
Meth was arrested for marijuana possession in Brooklyn on May 17, 2007. He agreed to conmmunity service in a plea bargain.
More Meth:
Busted in Brooklyn
The Wackness
Official Method Man website
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