{"id":53483,"date":"2025-12-09T19:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/method-man-admits-he-didnt-like-drakes-wu-tang-forever-i-wasnt-getting-on-that\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T19:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:15:25","slug":"method-man-admits-he-didnt-like-drakes-wu-tang-forever-i-wasnt-getting-on-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/method-man-admits-he-didnt-like-drakes-wu-tang-forever-i-wasnt-getting-on-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Method Man Admits He Didn&#8217;t Like Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Wu-Tang Forever&#8221;: &#8220;I [Wasn&#8217;t] Getting On That&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/method-man\" target=\"_blank\">Method Man<\/a> has explained why he rejected <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/drake\" target=\"_blank\">Drake<\/a>\u2018s \u201cWu-Tang Forever\u201d remix, admitting he didn\u2019t like the song and was confused why it was named after his crew\u2019s blockbuster second album.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Carmelo Anthony and Kazeem Famuyide\u2019s <em>7PM In Brooklyn<\/em> podcast, Johnny Blaze revisited the proposed 2013 posse cut for which Drizzy unsuccessfully attempted to assemble the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/wu-tang-clan\" target=\"_blank\">Wu-Tang Clan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like Drake. I think he\u2019s a dope artist, he puts out some great music obviously \u2014 otherwise he wouldn\u2019t be as big as he is,\u201d Meth began. \u201cBut when he sent the record, we were overseas. And you know, some brothers were trying to write to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m sitting there like, \u2018I don\u2019t like it.\u2019 I was like, \u2018What does this have to do with <em>Wu-Tang Forever<\/em>?\u2019 I\u2019m not questioning his artistic ability or anything. I\u2019m just saying, from my [perspective], it was more or less like, \u2018I\u2019m not getting on that.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"optanon-category-C0003\" width=\"900\" height=\"340\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cvsGmZTSsfQ?si=42o9CNGns7M1f-96\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/u-god\" target=\"_blank\">U-God<\/a> previously shared his side of the story in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TsT-Qpb8xBY&amp;t=126s\" target=\"_blank\">a 2014 interview with <em>MTV News<\/em><\/a>, revealing that a difference in subject matter is why the remix never happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess we kinda came too hard for him. He wanted us to talk about broads but at the time we weren\u2019t in no broad mode. We were hard-body at the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think later on I said to myself, \u2018What the hell was I rhyming about?!\u2019 I was rhyming some hardcore shit; he wanted us to talk about some bitches \u2026 We got the track last minute. We only had about six hours to write this thing \u2026 He was talking about something totally different so the subject matter didn\u2019t really mesh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/inspectah-deck\" target=\"_blank\">Inspectah Deck<\/a> also addressed the situation with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ywj7qSE7riE\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vlad TV<\/em> <\/a> in 2015, arguing that Drake\u2019s track did not \u201crepresent\u201d the Wu-Tang Clan.<\/p>\n<p>Deck claimed that \u201cWu-Tang Forever\u201d did not directly sample Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s Yourz\u201d but instead sampled \u201cIt\u2019s Yours\u201d by T La Rock &amp; Jazzy Jay, which provided the basis for Wu-Tang\u2019s version.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving that sample in there didn\u2019t make it, \u2018Okay, it\u2019s officially Wu-Tang\u2019 to me,\u201d he said. \u201cIt don\u2019t represent what we were saying with \u2018It\u2019s Yourz\u2019 so I didn\u2019t understand how this was a dedication to Wu-Tang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"optanon-category-C0003\" width=\"900\" height=\"340\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/04Dj5FzsKAs?si=RSrJBEaLxl9qgsKR\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/method-man-drake-wu-tang-forever-remix\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Method Man has explained why he rejected Drake\u2018s \u201cWu-Tang Forever\u201d remix, admitting he didn\u2019t like the song and was confused why it was named&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":53484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}