Method Man - Say: Track Review
From the forthcoming 4:21...The Day After.
So Method Man got upset because his wife almost died of cancer and has been lashing out. In an interview yesterday with Tom "Southern Strategy Breihan, Mr. Mef whines about some shit ego trip wrote about him way back in the 1990s. As Samuel L. Jackson would say, that's a old crime. Who gives a shit?
And he's especially pissed at Wendy Williams, who first broke the news about his wife's condition, alleging that the radio gossip used to blow random jigs for crack money on Staten Island back in the day - though I'm not sure if he meant that as a metaphor or a statement of fact. Hmm...
I tuned out way back in the days of Tical 2000, or whatever the fuck it was called, but from what I understand, critical response to 2004's Tical 0: The Prequel was less than positive. Didn't Diddy do the beats on that album? I can't imagine that would be any good.
Iron Lung remains adamant though that Tical 0 was a good album, god damnit! and as such, he's got some words for critics in his new single. Produced by aging closet case Erick Sermon, "Say" features a sample from "So Much Things to Say" from Lauryn Hill's 2002 bizarre public breakdown/unplugged album, not unlike Kanye West's "All Falls Down."
Sermon's backing track lacks the rhythmic complexity of the Kanye West production, but otherwise he seems to have the formula down pat, complete with the requistie rudimentary guitar strum that plays through the verses. Meth comes off kinda whiny in his verses, but his flow doesn't seem to have lost a step. Take that, damn critics!
Stream "Say."
