Key Takeaways:

• Method Man stated the monitor didn’t mirror Wu-Tang’s sound or legacy, so he handed on the remix.
• The 2013 music sampled Wu-Tang however leaned extra into Drake’s romantic themes.
• Although some verses had been written, the remix was by no means launched and stays a what-if second in hip hop.

Method Man likes what he likes, and that’s that. The Wu-Tang Clan rapper apparently was simply as confused as most people was about Drake’s 2013 music “Wu-Tang Forever” and its connection to the rap supergroup it name-dropped.

Because of the tune’s title, it might be secure to imagine that it was a homage to the gritty hip hop crew from Staten Island. However, the Noah “40” Shebib-produced monitor, which appeared on Nothing Was The Same, didn’t sonically match up with the Wu. The music has a breezy atmospheric instrumental and its content material leans on the 6 God’s conquests with girls.

Drizzy does sing “It’s yours” on the hook, which is a passing homage to the Wu’s “It’s Yourz” (which can also be sampled on the monitor) from their Wu-Tang Forever album. However, that’s the place any similarity ends, which was perplexing to Mr. Meth when he was requested so as to add a verse to the music.

In the Monday (Dec. 8) episode of the “7PM in Brooklyn” podcast with hosts Carmelo Anthony and Kazeem Famuyide, the rapper-turned-actor defined what occurred. “I like Drake. I think he’s a dope artist,” Method Man stated within the clip that may be seen under. “He places out some nice music, clearly, or else he would not be as large as he’s. But, when he despatched the report, we had been abroad. He did ship the report. Some brothers had been attempting to jot down to it and s**t. I’m sitting there and I’m like, ‘I do not prefer it.’ I used to be like, ‘What does this need to do with Wu-Tang Forever? I’m not questioning his creative means or something. I’m simply saying, for my style, that was kind of like, ‘I’m not getting on that.'”

By 2013, it had already been about 20 years since the Wu-Tang Clan dropped their debut album. So going out of their option to hop on the music of a then-up-and-coming rapper wasn’t essentially a precedence.

Added Meth, “No one knew it was gonna be that big … You become jaded when you’ve been in the business for a long time.”

Quite a lot of music/a/dharmic-x/drake-wu-tang-forever-wu-tang-clan-remix”>Wu-Tang Clan members allegedly wrote verses that had been supposed to seem on a remix of Drake’s music. Unfortunately, the model has by no means seen the sunshine of day. Nevertheless, even when solely out of curiosity, we’re certain there are many Wu and Drake followers who wouldn’t thoughts giving it a pay attention.