Method Man (song)

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"Method Man" is the B-side to the single "Protect Ya Neck" from the critically acclaimed debut album by the Wu-Tang Clan titled Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). It was a solo track for the first successful solo star of the Wu-Tang Clan, Method Man. The song was chosen for The Source magazine 100 best rap singles.^[1] The refrain of the song (M-E-T-H-O-D) draws from the 1985 Hall & Oates hit "Method of Modern Love" from Big Bam Boom.

It is featured on The RZA Hits compilation. The remix is featured on Method Man's debut album, Tical.

Song references[]

Within the song's lyrics, Method Man references many notable quotes from popular culture.

• The refrain of the song (M-E-T-H-O-D) draws from the 1985 Hall & Oates hit "Method of Modern Love" from Big Bam Boom.
• Pattycake – (Pattycake, pattycake, hey, the Method Man).
• Jif peanut butter, Skippy peanut butter, Peter Pan peanut butter – (Don't eat Skippy, Jif or Peter Pan, Peanut butter cuz I'm not butter).
• Green Eggs and Ham – (I be Sam, Sam-I-Am, and I don't eat green eggs and ham).
• Skunk, a strain of cannabis (I got fat bags of skunk).
• White Owl blunts. (I got white owl blunts).
• Method Man uses the term "Super Sperm", referencing the songs "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang and "Super Sporm", by Captain Sky.
• Tootsie Pops – (Now how many licks does it take, for me to hit the tootsie roll center of a break?)
• Get off of My Cloud – ("Hey, you, get off my cloud/You don't know me and you don't know my style") – a reference to the Rolling Stones song.
• "Hey, hey, hey, like Fat Albert; It's the Method Man, and there's no if, ands about it..."
• Tweety Bird: "Hold up, what; I tawt I taw a putty tat over there..."
• '"I am the one and only Method Man; rapper with the plan, wrapping shit like Saran..."
• "Chiminy chim chiminy" echoes the chimney sweep song from Mary Poppins.
• David Alan Grier's character Calhoun Tubbs from the TV series In Living Color: "Wrote a song about it; like to hear it? Here it go." This phrase was previously used in En Vogue's "Free Your Mind".

Intro[]

"Torture" The introduction to the song includes a dialogue between Method Man and Raekwon detailing various methods of torture.

Song order[]

• Pre-song dialogue: Raekwon and Method Man
• Intro: GZA
• Verse one: Method Man
• Chorus: Method Man
• Verse two: Method Man
• Outro: RZA and Ghostface Killah

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