Today, Method Man hits the road to kick off the Smokers Club tour in Philadelphia alongside the likes of Curren$y, Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA, and more. The tour will run into late November and have the crew hitting up over 30 cities across the United States and Canada (be sure to check Complex for giveaways, recaps, and more from the tour). Although we’re excited to see all of the acts do their thing, there is something special about seeing the M.E.T.H.O.D. Man tear up a stage.
In case you’ve never witnessed it, trust us when we say that the Shaolin representer puts on a good show. Besides being one of the most energetic performers in hip-hop, Tical’s trademark move in recent years has become to jump into the crowd and stand on the hands of fans. Before heading off on tour, we got on the horn with the Sour Patch Kids spokesman and he told us about the mistakes a lot of young rappers make on stage, the reaction he gets when he gets high (on the hands of his fans), and the time he bought weed with Snoop Dogg and Tha Dogg Pound.
Interview by Insanul Ahmed (@Incilin)
Putting on a good show & mistakes young rappers make
“We put on a good ass fucking show. I would pay to see us. I don’t know what people expect from a show because maybe they don’t get quality shows like that, so they don’t know [how good it can be]. Maybe some of their favorite artists don’t actually know how to perform, so they stand there and wait for a nigga to slip or fall or some shit like that to get a rise out of them. I don’t know.
On standing on the hands of fans
”[Standing on the hands of fans is] some original shit. Nobody has done unless you at a fucking cheerleading competition. Now I got something that I can claim as just mine. People actually wait for me to do that now. It’s crazy.
On the time he bought weed with Snoop Dogg
“Anytime Snoop and [The Dogg Pound] would come to the New York, I used to fuck with Snoop and we would get trees and smoke. That’s why I couldn’t understand what all that fucking East Coast/West Coast shit was that niggas was trying to drum up. And when them niggas came with that ‘New York, New York’ record, I didn’t understand that either but whatever.
