Upon Method Man’s arrival to the rap game in 1993, his trajectory was limitless.
While all of his Wu-Tang Clan brothers would go on to expand on their celebrity, visibility and interactions with the media, Method Man was a bona fide star from the start; instantly recognizable for his cloudy contacts, razor-sharp gold grills and the lone feature for Biggie’s
Ready To Die. He was the unambiguous face of Wu-Tang Clan — whenever he wanted to be.
Method Man also hails from an era where your rapper ranking was not only defined by the skills you display in the songs but also as a definitive body of work. It’s been almost customary for fans (of that era) to generally associate the artist’s first project as their best one. Most classic debuts typically arrived when the artist’s mystique and buzz were colliding at warp speed, so it’s not necessarily a wild assumption.