After his highly disappointing third LP, Method Man is coming back for number 4
with a big chip on his shoulder. One listen to the vicious new cut Say and you know what I mean. It isn’t
gonna be like the last one, “I had a lot
on my mind at the time and the second thing was,” Meth said. “I decided to
really talk about something and I had a lot to draw from and when the pen hit
the paper it was like damn, remember this? And by the time I was done it was
like shit, let’s go.”
John 4:21: The Day
After will feature production from The
RZA, Erick Sermon, Scott Storch, K1 and Havoc. E Double, who
produced the aforementioned, Lauryn Hill-assisted
Say, also contributed two other
songs. “With Eric, we did three songs in
three days,” Meth said. “He just comes in with ideas of top. And with
RZA, shit, I’ve watched him build tracks from scratch, so all I really have to
do is put the pen to the paper”.
That song, just like the title of the album, has a story
behind it. “I’ve been venting about all
this for years and my manager was like, ‘Write about it, Eric has the perfect
joint.’ And, Lauryn Hill herself, she just had the raw emotion, the small
things she said on the song was enough for me to push my pen and let myself be
vulnerable.” Meth says his personal
single. The theme runs throughout the album actually, “the national weed smoking day is 4/20, so I named my album 4/21 the day
after. Because after that day, you have this moment of clarity when you’re not
high and you see things clearly. You
feel like you’re not in on the joke, and everyone’s laughing at you. I felt
like no one was taking me seriously. I got real angry and I just starting
writing.” The album drops on August 22 on Def Jam.
