Method Man recently sat down with Math Hoffa for the podcast My Expert Opinion where the recent debacle between Snoop and Eminem was brought up. The two Hip Hop heavyweights engaged in a lightweight beef earlier this year after Uncle Snoop made some ill-received comments during a July 2020 episode of The Breakfast Club.
While speaking to Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy and Angela Yee, Snoop claimed Eminem wasn’t in his Top 10 greatest rappers of all-time list. Shady ultimately addressed the comments on the Music To Be Murdered By: Side B single “Zeus,” which Snoop deemed “soft ass shit.”
Although KXNG Crooked feared it could evolve into the “most polarizing beef ever in Hip Hop,” Snoop ultimately revealed everything was “good” between them. As Method Man sees it, Snoop’s comments should have been kept between them.
“In a room with just us in it, when we boys, we say shit like that to each other,” Meth explained. “I don’t fuck with your shit. And it’s not taken in any way. But when it’s in a public forum, it takes on a whole different light…I can sit here and tell my best friend Joey, ‘Shut the fuck up Joey.’ When it’s just me and him, he won’t take it no type of way. But when we in a room full of muthafuckas, now it takes on a whole other light.”
Meth continued, “I think Em should have looked at it as boys being boys. He don’t like your music, so? He ain’t say he don’t fuck with you. He just said he don’t play that shit. For Eminem, who’s revered not just by white kids but black people, cause we know he respects the genre.
“If people want to draw lines in the sand, that shit was already there. There’s such Eminem Stans, the n-gga could say the wackest bar and they’d be like, ‘Oh my god, did you hear what Eminem just said?’ Same thing with Snoop. I’m pretty sure Em heard verses from Snoop where he was like, ‘That shit was garbage.’ He could tell Snoop that, but Em is the type of person who would only tell Snoop that in a safe space because he understands the ramifications of making that public.”
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The Wu-Tang Clan legend went on to talk about Snoop’s evolution from featured rapper on Dr. Dre’s “Deep Cover” single to a bona fide celebrity
“Snoop on the other hand, he’s not even a rapper no more,” he added. “He’s beyond superstar. Everything he does is public forum, you gotta take it with a grain of salt. One time I said Snoop was the worst rapper/actor I ever seen. Next time I seen Snoop, it wasn’t nothing! The n-gga could have given two fucks cause he got the check already!”
He also pointed out Eminem doesn’t exactly have “thick skin,” saying, “If anybody say anything sideways about him, he went apeshit on them to the point where he ruined careers. But we love that shit because that’s where the culture came from. Everyone Em ever dissed on record, he hated their asses, but he don’t have that energy with Snoop. So it hurt him, as opposed to igniting him.”
Man, Meth is exactly on point here. Perfect summary.
Great analysis, I think that’s what transpired too. I don’t think Em and Snoop have the kinda tight relationship they do with one another as Em does with D12, Royce, 50 Cent etc. On top of that, Em is extremely finicky as well.
When you’re getting out-rapped by MGK and Young Ma and pretty much every other rapper you feature on at this point in time, it takes some real self-delusion to think you’re going to be on an all-time greats “greatest” list… unless they’re trying to win over your white, angry teenage male audience.
There is no way in hell that MGK and Young Ma out rapped Eminem. You are delusional.
Outrapped by MGK and Young Ma? Bitch, where? How even? Straight up jealous ass hater. How do people like you even exist? Hate him all you want as a person, but to question his skill in doing so takes personaway any credibility you have in the conversation. I can’t stand Tom Brady as a person because of his Trump support and peddling of pseudoscience but I can’t deny his skill as a QB. For you to say unknown rappers outshine him is like me saying some 3rd string QB is better than Brady – and I should rightfully be dismissed from the conversation at that point. Hell, even the rappers you put above Em would think you’re fucking stupid.
My comment was meant for Joe btw.
eres un pendejo pa la verga porque el eminem se echa a ese puto mjk maricon y el otro puto hombre masculino
… Well said.
Well meth said it, snoop ain’t a rapper he just a person to make fun of! A clown in other words!
-Em stan
I liked this convo
that convo was great 90 minutes in, Meth was real honest on how he feels.
I somehow don’t see Em or Royce going at Meth.
Man he has no reason to an in my eyes Eminem will beat him in a freestyle friendly or non friendly maybe Em should show everyone why he don’t go on wild n out an that celebrity rap that meth host lyrically slaughter all of the competition.
“Eminem will tear him up in a freestyle!”
*Eminem proceeds to get out-rhymed by Young MA and a dozen other unknown rappers on his own album*
It’s obvious that you have a personal beef with Em, don’t discredit his work. ? ? You could even be a devil worshiper and Em will cleanse you of your mortal sins. ? ? ? ?
It’s obvious that you have a personal beef with Em, don’t discredit his work. You could even be a devil worshiper and Em will cleanse you of your mortal sins.
Eminem is the GOAT
Em’s bars and his brain is to fire ??for Snoop to make it a problem.
And what u mean em ain’t got thick skin i listen to the words in his songs and his skin been cut so much being a white boy from Detroit what motha fucka from that spot wouldn’t spazz the fuck out on someone talking some nonsense about him not being in his top ten ..on broadcast. He has the right to spazz
His fuckin skill is insane and i respect it 10000 times over my dream is to meet him one day and tell him thank you for his creative music. Ones meant to intertainnnn and ta do it in vaiiiinnn weather he’s being real or being fakkkeeee.
But nah Marshall is the top 1-5 he took me from weezy lil wayne with his insane bars
GOAT ???? Eminem?????❤️
“If you listen to his music, you hear a 48 year old man who still hasn’t gotten over someone stealing his tricycle when he was three. CLEARLY, he’s a beacon of thick skin.”
Wow. So like, are you going to next talk about how you touch yourself listening to him? Cottdamn. I hope you ain’t a grown man. This is the saddest but yet traumatizing post I’ve read all week. Go outside and get you some vitamin D. Might clear your head talking crazy like this.
Em grew up in Detroit! Like millions of other black males. Clearly, he has thick skin. He NEVER could have survived if he didn’t.
Thing is, I don’t hear any other black male still whining about his step dad at 50.
“Someone stole my flavor flav clock when I was 13! I’m tough!”
If you listen to Eminem’s music – really listen to it – it’s a parody of black music. It doesn’t respect the culture. It makes fun of it and then claims it for his own, much like any other thing white people have ever done in relation to black success. “I respect your music, now let me have it, it’s mine, cause I’m white and I mastered it.”
Throughout his career, there has been no genuine respect shown toward the genre. He name-drops black rappers and black issues, but about the only people he’s sincerely respected are Dre and Eminem, both people who made his success. There’s name-dropping classic rap but no soul whatsoever for the meaning behind that music.
He does the same with black social issues. He name-drops them for his own benefit, but then turns around and claims that merely name-dropping those issues with no context makes him a crusader. One of the best examples is his, “Black people saved my life…”
That’s sweet. So black people saved your life, what profound thing are you going to say next? He uses it as a 60 second showcase of his ability to name every black police shooting victim. He name drops them, twists them into a RHYME against each other, and says absolutely NOTHING about the actual tragedies. Then claims the tragedies as his own by saying, “All we want his racial equality.” WE? lol You just did Cat in the Hat rhyme scheme with black shooting victims and suddenly you’re the white MLK Jr? I can’t think of anything more insensitive than simply using dead shooting victims to showcase your rhyming abilities. Here’s a peace prize!
So you gonna hang around here all day with a rebuttal for every positive comment made in Shady’s defense? What’s hurting your asshole more? Eminem constantly bucking your favorite wrapper or that he actually elevated to a higher level because he has more skill in his left but than 90% of the wrap game? And … you type like a ‘Cohen’ so stop acting like a hiphop hall monitor and get sum ass …
@ Joe,…..”U sounds a little naive in them articles that I read”….
Lol you are readin into that way too hard to the point I can’t tell if you’re white because you mad he bashed Trump and you tryin to as legitimately as possible discredit Eminem, or if you are black, and just feel like Eminem does not deserve the respect and energy he has poured into this craft for years, just because he’s white.
So you must be light skinned
No, Eminem is not white MLK jr. Also, Eminem is funny as fuck, who literally did parodies of people and situations early on. Here’s a pro tip: it was before 2005, I assume you were brought into this world then?
-Eminem fan since ’99
Wow, that’s evidence you haven’t really listened to his music. You’re a clown. Stay in the basement.
I totally agree. I’ve been saying this for years, that if Eminem is a great rapper, that he would assist the black community with the black communities problems along with other black rappers.
It’s sad that a lot of us don’t realize it’s a slap in the face in addition to our own people not uplifting us. There’s nothing in Eminem is up doing to uplift us with the genre that we created.
Once he does that. I will be a fan. Once other rappers have some positive content in their music that’s uplifting. I will be a fan of them as well if he’s putting the situation to make a difference why is the black community not demanding more from their own as well as him?
The hip Hop culture was created to give the black community a voice of upliftment not craziness however, the record companies got involved and a lot of artists said the hell with the message, they wanted to get the money so that’s what is the main focus. And that main focus is on demise.
You obviously weren’t around during 1999-2005 Eminem or were at least very young at the time. Eminem made D12 famous. He basically started 50 Cents’ career.
Eminem was such a different rapper back then. He did do a lot for the black hip hop scene. For example before Eminem was famous he was a part of a rap group called “D12”. It was made up of his friends from before he was famous and living in the hood and where African Americans. When Eminem became famous he brought them all along with them, got them signed and even gave up a year of his solo career to tour exclusively with them.
Read my other comment to Joe. You’ll see how you’re wrong. You’re only aware of the Eminem of recent years (completely different from his 1999-2005 prime).
You don’t know
Joe you can tell that you basically know absolutely nothing about pre-2005 Eminem. He was a completely different rapper then and gave so much love and respect to so many black rappers especially those who inspired him. This was all 1999-2006. Eminem was a part of a rap group (D12) that were made up with his friends from when he lived in the hood. He’d been a part of D12 before he was famous. When he became famous he brought his friends with him (D12), got them signed onto a record deal and gave up a year of his solo career in his prime to exclusively tour with them as part of he group.
They were African Americans and the one Eminem was closest to was named Proof. His best friend from his early teens way before the fame. When Proof was killed it devasted Eminem to the point he disappeared and spent every day in his place grieving and taking pills all day. No one knew where Eminem was or doing for a long time.
He only came back to Rap after almost dying from an OD and started the second half of his career (starting in 2009). It’s only the Eminem of the last few years that you know anything about.
So many of Eminem’s songs back then in 1999-2005 had soul and meaning such as Mockingbird (about his love for is daughter) “Rock Bottom” (which is about living in poverty and was written he was poor before the fame).
Listen to “Difficult”, a leaked song Em done days after Proof was killed. A song about his death. It was a tribute and you could tell he was absolutely heartbroken by his voice.
Eminem was a changed person after he recovered from his mourning Proof, got clean from drugs and got back into rap. His last greatly received album was in 2013. Had he quit then, his legacy and career would be almost have been perfect. He kept on though and changed even more. He is so completely different than his prime which was (1999-2005). He’s even very different as a rapper than (2013) Eminem.
He can’t take criticism now and has nothing left to say that’s meaningful. All he has now is his brilliant technical lyricism.
Ps when he said “we” he obviously meant all Americans.
This article title is so click baity its not even funny.
em not in my top 50 but hes around there
I’m a Wu-Tang STAN 100%…but I gotta call a spade a spade. What Joe Budden said about Meth that got him punched in the eye was very similar to this, so why couldn’t Meth handle that?
Right message, wrong messenger. Method Man is just as thin skinned and sensitive as Eminem. Look how hurt he got when Joe Buddens said he was better, or the Wendy Williams situation, or even the old video of him arguing with Ghostface and U-God. There is a long history of Method Man crying over BS. Meth is in the top 5 most sensitive alive ALONG WITH Eminem who can’t take any kind of criticism at all.
He also got his face cut when the Juggalos threw glass at him while he was performing at their Gathering festival and said he wouldn’t leave the stage because his heart doesn’t pump Kool Aid. ’99 Eminem (the cool one) was jumping into the audience and fighting people, but post Recovery Eminem would cry backstage and call Haley for moral support.
So… Eminem going to diss Meth too for saying this right?
Eminem ain’t gonna diss the Wu-Tang! Dre not gonna safe him then!
Snoop is tripping. Ketch’s first album and the Enter the… by Wu are classics. He has had a few decent tracks since then and doesn’t appear to take rapping seriously since then. He’s said so himself. If it really comes down to it, Em would destroy them both on the mic. Seriously. Pick a DJ, have him throw on random instrumentals and give them each 2 minutes to spit. Black Thought is one of the only people who comes to mind that I think would have a chance against Em in the purest form of MCIng. Written he would DESTROY both Snoop and Meth now in diss tracks. Not even close. It is what it is. I’m not even a huge Eminem fan. I liked all of his old shit with Dre, and a random track off of an album or two since way back when. It bothers rappers and for some reason white kids pretending to be black on hip hop forums that he is so technically on point and talented. I don’t honestly see a regular black person who isn’t in his feelings having a problem with a white guy rapping. That starts a whole ridiculous conversation about people of different races doing shit invented by another race, which leads to people shutting up real quick. It’s 2021. No one owns a culture that is commercialized for profit. We live in a free market. Get over it.
Em can’t be Mad bcuz a World known Rapper like Snoop didn’t put him in his top 5 when asked..Em can spit..but he’s not l n everybody’s top 5 is all I’m saying..That’s why u must have Thick skin like Meth said…
Not true no matter how known he is his opinion should mean nothing especially how garbage dude is since his first CD foh
True, no one is in everyone’s top 5 except maybe Pac and Big. Em always defensive.
Lmao Em is dodo
You make a strong argument lol
P.S. I think you meant “doo-doo”.
Meth is on point
I think Meth was on meth when he spoke on this sh!t
Eminem is soft. The rap game has been over since 2005 and nowadays everybody wants to be a victim. Grow up slim and get your life in perspective.
Hey buddy. I think u need to find some perspective.
Soft lol lol lol he’s out sold everyone in rap an ruined careers artist of the decade lol get a life
This Joe person seems like he’s outta his depth. I dont think he knows how to even appreciate real bars
I hope everyone appreciates the irony of saying “Eminem stans overestimate his contribution to the culture” when he literally invented the word “Stan”