Method Man

BOYCOTT! Like Rick Ross, These Product-Endorsing Artists Have Said Vile Things

Yesterday activists protested Reebok's flagship store to put pressure on the company to cut its ties with rapper Rick Ross, who recently ... well you already know this story. Whether or not the more than 71,000 signatures collected to get Ross fired will work remains to be seen, but Big Corporations ... More >>

Curren$y

GRIND TIME

GZA and Killer Mike take on Irving Plaza

Musical Heroes: A New York Comic-Con Playlist

If things seem a little more heroic around you than usual, it's because today marks the start of the 2012 New York Comic-Con. The NYCC is one of the nation's biggest comic conventions, attracting fans, artists, industry types and celebrities from all over the entertainment world. The lines waiting f ... More >>

The Top 3.28 Hip-Hop Songs Of The Week

Rap has always had a dividing line between the rapper and the guy that yells out things on stage because it's America, damn it. That man used to be the DJ, who'd spin records for the rapper and rap along to his verses to get the crowd hype. As the years went by and quality DJing became more rare, th ... More >>

Hip-Hop's 25 Best Weed Songs

In honor of today being 4/20—every smoker's favorite day of the year—SOTC has compiled the 25 Best Rap Songs relating to weed. Though some may be more about bud than others, all are guaranteed to make your high all the more enjoyable. Be forewarned, though... this list doesn't have any h ... More >>

Live: Method Man, Curren$y, Big K.R.I.T., And Others Smoke Out The Best Buy Theater

Method Man w/ Curren$y, Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA, Fiend & Cornerboy, Marcus Manchild, and more Best Buy Theater Friday, October 14 Better than: Hanging out in my own living room (barely). Last time Curren$y and Big K.R.I.T. rolled through Manhattan on the Smoker's Club tour (sans Method Man), both ... More >>

Method Man Raps About Sour Patch Kids Gone Bad

Have you ever wondered what it would look like if Method Man rapped about Sour Patch Kids as CGI candy ran around causing havoc in a nicely appointed kitchen? Of course you haven't, but, for some reason, it's happened anyway in a new spot labeled "World Gone Sour (The Lost Kids)." Let's take a look ... More >>

THE CHRONIC

Smoker's Club blazes through New York

Insane Clown Posse

Ten Reasons Why The Wu Tang Clan Are The Greatest Rap Group Of All Time

​Raekwon, the Wu-Tang Clan's resident slang scholar, released his new solo album, Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang, last week; it's the latest installment in a magnificent saga that's now nearly two decades strong and leaves Staten Island's finest rap representers firmly in the conversation for hip-hop's g ... More >>

Can A Professional Music Critic Name All Nine Members of the Wu-Tang Clan?

​If there's one common complaint we hear as rock critics, it's "I could totally do your job." First off--shhh, don't tell anyone! Secondly, "jobs" traditionally pay better than this, so we'll gladly go Parent Trap with you in a heartbeat. Either way, we decided to get some measurable data o ... More >>

Programming Note: SOTC on WNYC's Soundcheck Today, Talking Juggalos

Camille wouldn't let us use a photo of her in full juggalo facepaint. Credit: Nate "Igor" Smith​Last week our own Camille Dodero staggered back into the office, having barely survived four days at the Gathering of the Juggalos. Now, later today, she'll be on WNYC's Soundcheck, discussing the o ... More >>

Week in Review: Jugga-luh-oh

Run Tila, run! Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.​In the week one of us went to the Gathering of the Juggalos and came back with what is increasingly looking like Stockholm Syndrome, we witnessed Tila Tequila (and Method Man) battle a pack of angry ICP fans and--shortly after she took her top off--lo ... More >>

Yes, Method Man Got Hit in the Face at the Gathering of the Juggalos Too, But It Was Nothing Like The Tila Tequila Incident [Audio, Photos]

Nate "Igor" Smith. If you steal photos and don't link back, we will come and find you.Method Man, after getting hit at the Gathering of the Juggalos.Yes, Method Man did get hit in the face during his set with Redman at the Gathering of the Juggalos on Sunday night. Witnessed this too, though from th ... More >>

Law & Order's Five Most Ridiculous Rapper Cameos

​Law & Order ends its 20-year run tonight. Throughout the show's long reign, phalanxes of honorable detectives have cleaned the New York streets of crime and debris while throwing out witty one-liners and re-enacting plotlines ripped from real-life headlines. Grabbing a cameo on the show has a ... More >>

Things To Do This Weekend for (Mostly) Free

​Sunday at 10, it's the Easter Parade on 5th Avenue between 49th and 57th. Get out your bizarre headgear and take a walk , or,if you'd rather sleep in, the live webcam is here. This weekend's free museums: on Saturday, the Brooklyn Museum is showcasing their new exhibit of ancient egyptian fun ... More >>

GZA

'Hip-Hop Legends Concert Series IV'

Def Jam at 25

The Yankees of hip-hop labels, reconsidered

Live From the Purple Carpet: Interviews and Photos from Last Night's Raekwon Record Release Party

The press mob. All photos by Eleni Rizakos.​Raekwon's long-anticipated Only Built for Cuban Linx, Part II dropped yesterday with a release party graced by Ghostface, Method Man, Diddy, DJ Premiere, Redman, Eric B, Ice-T, and Cappadonna, among many, many others. The red carpet was purple, of co ... More >>

2Gethr 4evr

Rap’s BFFs kick off APW

Say Hey to Brooklyn's Own Revelations, Stars of the New Sorta-Wu-Tang Disc

Today, as we struggle mightily to readjust from Long Weekend Mode to Back at Work Mode, seems like a good day to just play Wu-Tang Chamber Music on infinite repeat: As Mr. Breihan notes, it's neither a great album nor, technically a Wu-Tang album (no Method Man/GZA, no RZA production, etc.), but a r ... More >>

Why Redman and Method Man Performed on Jimmy Fallon Without the Roots

On Monday night, Method Man and Redman took their Blackout! 2 promotional tour to Jimmy Fallon, an evening that promised to join the rapidly growing pantheon of incredible rap performances on Fallon's show--the Roots backing veterans that went as far back or farther in the game than they did, guy ... More >>

This Week in Voice Blogs

At Sound of the City, our film critic J. Hoberman reports from the Cannes premiere of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: "A sort of World War II spaghetti western, even more drenched in film references than blood." Also: Behind the scenes as Method Man and Redman snub The Roots! At La Daily ... More >>

Week in Review: A Night in a Camper Without a Pillow or Blanket

Nate "Igor" SmithSomehow not at all tired of this guy In the week some of us returned bedraggled and red-eyed from SXSW and some of us returned bedraggled and red-eyed from all the weed people were blazing at that Morrissey show, we couldn't quite stop listening to that Micachu record. FYI: The Co ... More >>

On "City Lights," Featuring Redman, Method Man, and UGK

Rap's 36-posts-or-so-per-mp3-blog-a-day regimen hasn't had nearly the same obliterative effect on the music itself as it has in, say, indie rock: If anything, it makes tracks by veterans like Red and Meth seem like major events, when in reality both of those guys have spent the better part of two ... More >>

Method Man and Redman Are Not Finished: "A Yo"

Feel-good throwback of the day: Meth and Red's "A Yo," the usual weed-kissed melange of gritty New York baller-talk and goofy Kill Bill references. These guys have become something like a beloved movie in deep cable syndication, and even they're watching. Guess which rapper spit this: "And now I'm ... More >>

Recommended: Wu-Tang Clan at Hammerstein

STILL NUTHING TA F' WIT

Flopped albums and internal dissent can't keep Wu-Tang down

A Running Diary of Hip-Hop Superfest Rock the Bells

The exquisite joys of a sunny Sunday afternoon on the LIRR, Mos Def's basketball uniform, and De La Soul's late-'80s nostalgia

THROWBACKS AND BACKPACKS

Rap gets its own Lollapalooza

The Death of Rap City

Method Man Says "Just Say No"

What To Do With Your Sloppy Ass This Weekend: Skateboard Art, DunksXChange, and Pimp Art

I'm From Rolling Stone: The Finale

Tical 2006: The Falling-Off

Wu royalty gets a bit too defensive with self-prophetic comeback/never-left campaign

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Method Man

The Best Rap Videos Ever

Return of the Ruckus

Still unhinged after more than an ol' dirty dozen years, the Wu-Tang Clan stage a Shaolin family reunion

Wu-Tang Clan to Reunite

Wuclear Fission

A Nutcase and a Point Guard Rise Above Wu-Tang’s Solo Overkill

Rev That Azz Up

Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop

Still Rough Enuff to Break from NY To Long Island

Scrambling On Eggshells

Zooted, Blooted, Sclamslooted

Prodigy Present the Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One

Consumer Guide

Hard-Knock He-Men

Oh Gods