Method Man

Label delays and an exploding Hollywood career meant it took Method Man six years to bust a counterpart to Tical 2000: Judgment Day. But it was worth the wait. The Hitmen's production makes this one a smoky, inspired comeback with mad lyrical wit, cameos galore, and looped organic beats.

Method Man's extended tenure as hip-hop's Cheech to Redman's Chong has turned him into
a leering grotesque of his former menacing self. Tical 0 finds the thirty-four-year-old still
stuck spinning doughnuts in a cul-de-sac of blunts. "We Some Dogs," featuring Redman and
Snoop, is a funky sure shot surrounded by excessively similar juvenilia. The killer swarm of
1994's Tical and Tical 2000's astro-black ambition aren't anywhere to be seen. Bl... More >