“Tracy came and picked me up from my crib, 66 Benjamin Drive,” he remembered. Method Man delved deeper into the studio session that birthed “The What,” recalling how Biggie would “snap” on Diddy (and anyone else who was in the room) relentlessly. ‘How About Some Hardcore’? I was like, ‘Them n-ggas is it!’” “ Fame was like, ‘I’ll make it happen!’ I loved them n-ggas from day one. ‘Actin’ as if it can’t happen,’” he said. The Wu-Tang Clan member admitted to also borrowing from fellow New Yorkers M.O.P. Method Man Admits To Biting NAS On Biggie Smalls’ The What. ‘I’ll be damned if this ain’t some shit/Come to spread the butter lyrics over hominy grits… Coming where you rest at, surrender/Step inside the ring, you’s the number one contender/Looking cold-booty like your pussy in December.’” Who was I biting there? Whose flow was I ? Nas. That’s where the ‘T-H-O-D Man, here I am/I’ll be damned if this ain’t some shit.’ “But I overlapped him because it didn’t fall on beat doing it that way. “By the time I got, Biggie’s verse was written and he told me that he wanted to end it with, ‘You can’t mess with M-E’ and I was supposed to go, ‘T-H-O-D,’” he recalled. During a recent appearance on Math Hoffa’s My Expert Opinion podcast, Method Man copped to biting Nas on the collaboration. Brimming with sneering rhymes and back-and-forth chemistry, “The What” finds the pair running a two-man weave over dank, dusty production from Easy Mo Bee.īut listen close enough and one can hear the DNA of another New York rap legend.
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