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The much-anticipated Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon collaboration album initially slated for release this December has reportedly been pushed back into next year. Read the full story

Rapper and actor Clifford Smith, better known to fans as Method Man, was arrested Monday and faces charges of failing to pay taxes, the district attorney in Richmond County, New York, said. Read the full story

In true HHLO.net fashion, we’re bringing this to you! As Hip-Hop heads around the world…Bar for Bar, 32 bars each in a studio, like Budden’s talking about, who would kill it? Method Man or Joe Budden?

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Listen to the radio interviews with both Method Man and Joe Budden that got this all started.

Method Man responded to Joe Budden’s comments on Ed Lover’s radio show about the Ghostwriting accusations  and more.

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Redman and Method Man’s Blackout LP came out in 1999. To get a sense of how long ago that was, peep “Where We At” from that album and let Redman welcome you to Side Two of a cassette. Remember those? Since then, the dynamic duo have been mostly hit and miss, sometimes dragging their good name through the mud with singles like “Dirty”. Now that Blackout 2 (BO2) is on the way and fans anticipate their return to greatness, DJ Green Lantern provides the streets with the pre-album the Lights Out mixtape.

Dj Green Lantern’s Lights Out is a collection of fan favorites from Red and Meth juxtaposed with a few new cuts from BO 2. However, without prior knowledge of their work, you could not tell the difference. The first two tracks, “Dangerous MCs” and “Big Dogs” sound like tracks from the same album, even though they were recorded a decade apart. Normally, this would mean they haven’t grown as artists. However, when you compare their old hits to their more recent projects, a little reverse-progress Benjamin Button action is not a bad look.

The blunt aficionados know how to please their fans. On the small window of what’s to come on BO2, they grab Pete Rock for production and go to UGK and Wu-members Raekwon & Ghostface for features. Lyrically, they bring that raw and off the wall style, with Red spitting lines like “cold, my heart built with a snowball, and i fuck old women like Zohan”, and Meth talking about “another mic, another night in the day’s inn, another heist another kite in the state pen, my state been the shit, ya’ll dudes just break wind”.

Picks from their older catalogue were also solid choices. They avoided putting all the obvious singles and went with lesser known gems. This should bring long time supporters back while encouraging newly acquainted fans to go back and discover Red and Meth. The only real complaint is for Green Lantern leaving out the intro for “The Rockwilder”. It’s a minor detail but that opening is too classic. Ohhmygod…

Get the mixtape. Get familiar (or nostalgic). Then, go get the album.

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Tracklisting

1. Lights Out Intro (Ridin High)
2. Dangerous Mc’s
3. Big Dogs
4. A Yo
5. Well All Rite Cha
6. How High
7. City Lights feat UGK
8. The Rockwilder
9. Tear it Off
10. 4 Minutes to Lock Down feat. Reakwon and Ghostface