Method Man admits he dislikes Drake’s ‘Wu-Tang Forever’
Method Man has opened up about why he turned down a feature on Drake’s ‘Wu-Tang Forever’.
Drizzy released the song in 2013 as part of his Nothing Was the Same album, with the track peaking at number 52 on the Hot 100 and boasting 152 million Spotify streams.
During a recent episode of 7PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony, Method Man explained the reason he rejected a proposed remix of the song featuring members of the Wu.
“I like Drake,” he said. “I think he’s a dope artist, he puts out some great music, obviously – otherwise he wouldn’t be as big as he is. But when he sent the record, we were overseas. And you know, some brothers were trying to write to it.”
He continued, “And I’m sitting there like, ‘I don’t like it.’ I was like, ‘What does this have to do with Wu-Tang Forever?’ I’m not questioning his artistic ability or anything. I’m just saying, from my [perspective], it was more or less like, ‘I’m not getting on that.’”
Drake’s track is named after their 1997 album, Wu-Tang Forever, and samples the song ‘It’s Yourz‘.
Method Man isn’t the only member to speak down on Drake’s song. In a conversation with HipHopDX in 2013, Inspectah Deck questioned the song’s association with Wu-Tang.
“I felt it didn’t have no bearing on the Wu-Tang Clan, or Wu-Tang Forever, for that matter,” he said. “I’m saying that I disagree with the title of that song being ‘Wu-Tang Forever’ when it has no bearing on Wu-Tang Clan, despite the fact that the ‘It’s Yourz’ sample floatin’ in the background.”
The album, Wu-Tang Forever, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart with 612,000 units in its first week.