The reason why Redman and Method Man don’t hang out
Redman and Method Man have enjoyed a decades-long musical partnership, not to mention working together in films and other media, too. But, as Redman revealed earlier this year, they don’t actually hang out as friends anymore.
That seems bad, but it’s not as bleak as it initially seems. The pair still get along just fine—it’s just that life moves on a bit. Redman explained his perspective on the matter during an appearance on the Julian Dorey Podcast, on which he was asked whether or not he and Meth still meet up and spend time together.
“Hell no!” came the terse reply, but he was soon elaborating. They still got on fine, but theirs was a working relationship.
“We do shows and we come back home,” Redman explained. “I don’t hang out with a lot of rappers at all. This is work, this is home. We’re very inclusive with our movement. Once we’re off the road, we’re like, ‘Alright. You got family to deal with, I got shit I gotta do.’ My circle is very small. So we all have different lives. I don’t hang out with rappers. I might call.”
Method Man and Redman are middle-aged men now, and, naturally enough, other priorities and duties emerge in life by the time you get to that age. There’s less time for hanging out with your friends, which, sad as that may be, is fairly normal. Redman, as a younger man, might have spent lots of time with his fellow rappers, but, nowadays, he tends to see them in a professional capacity.
“There’s a lot of MCs who I’m connected with,” he said. “Of course Wu[-Tang Clan] is my crew or whatever, but there’s a lot of artists that we might chop it up on the phone—but no. The only artists I hang out with is my boy DoItAll from Lords of The Underground and Treach if I see him in the hood and that’s about it. And Kid Capri.”
Fans of Method Man & Redman will be relieved to hear that Redman, at least, is keen to get back into the studio with his musical partner to make new music. Red may not see much of Meth anymore, but he clearly still has an appetite to write and rap with him. But the obstacle to this, in actual fact, is Method Man. He seems less eager.
Redman, during an interview with The Red Bulletin Magazine that he conducted alongside Meth in 2024, expressed a desire to return to their Blackout! series of albums, of which there have been two. A third has been long-awaited, but has not yet dropped.
“I want to do a Blackout! 3,” Red admitted. “Maybe like 12 songs.”
But Meth dispelled hopes for such a project arriving any time soon. “We are not even focused on no Blackouts! or any of that shit right now,” he said. “Brother, we are focused on this TV and movie stuff and producing as well. We’ve got to get these stories out there.”