Wu-Tang Clan’s MC does not think that Snoop meant any offence to Eminem but also admits that this is not how rappers should talk about each other on public platforms.
When asked on “My Expert Opinion” about his thoughts on the situation between Eminem and Snoop Dogg, Method Man declared that he is not interested in what does not impact his life:
I don’t give a fuck. Because I look at it like this: does it affect me in any way? Does it affect any of my family members or anybody I know? No.
Still, he provided an interesting perspective, noticing that rappers are not really concerned with hurting each other feelings and can be very open and harsh when talking to each other. However, emphasised the veteran rapper, what is alright between friends looks very different when taken into the public space:
In a room where we just in it — we’re boys, we say that kind of shit to each other. You know, “I don’t fuck with your shit, our shit was wack”, and it’s not taken in any way. But when it’s put in a public forum, it takes whole different lights. For example, I could sit here and tell my best friend: “Shut the fuck up!”. But when it’s just me and him in a room, he won’t take it no kind of way. But when we are in the room full of motherfuckers, and I say that then it takes whole different lights. It’s like “Damn, you gonna tell me that in front of them?”
So, I think Em should’ve looked at it as “boys being boys” kind of thing. It’s like, “So what? You don’t fuck with my music? So what the fuck?” He ain’t said he don’t fuck with you. He’s just saying “I don’t play that shit”.
But that was not a “locker room banter” or a private conversation, reminded Math Hoffa, that was said on a public platform and amplified by media. And Method Man agrees:
That’s why it hits a little different. So for Eminem who is revered not just by white kids but, you know, blacks people alike because we know he respects the genre. If people want to start drawing lines in the sand, that line was already there, period. There are some motherfuckers that are so big; they are such Eminem stans! That nigga can say the whackiest bar in the world, and they’d be like “Oh my god, dude, did you hear what the fuck Eminem said?!” The dude said “marbles and balls”! I’ve never heard it… I’ve heard it before, but I’ve never heard anyone saying it like that!” And the same thing with Snoop. I’m pretty sure Em has heard verses from Snoop, and he was like “That shit was garbage”. He could tell Snoop that, but Em is a type of person that only tells Snoop that in a safe space, in a safe environment, knowing ramifications of that being a public thing. Snoop, on the other hand, Snoop ain’t even a rapper no more, this nigga is a public persona. Snoop is beyond superstar. Mogul! Everything Snoop does it’s a public forum. You gotta take this shit with a grain of salt. One time I said Snoop was the worst rapper-actor I’ve ever seen. Next time I see Snoop, “What’s good, nephew?”. Nothing! He could not have two fucks ‘cause he got the check already. And plus, I didn’t mean it that way anyway; I was just saying rappers as actors and shit, we don’t do the homework or whatever.
We all know Eminem does not have thick skin. You can tell that by his records that he doesn’t have thick skin and if anybody said anything sideways about him, he went ape-shit and went in on them to the point where he ruined careers. But we loved that shit cause that’s where the culture came from. Especially battle rappers. They love that shit. And I think everybody Eminem ever dissed on a record he hated their asses, but he don’t have that energy with Snoop, so it hurt him as opposed to igniting him.
That was quite a take on a complicated situation between two hip hop legends and, to be fair, on the entire hip hop culture in general.
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