Method Man has provided some clarity regarding his previous remarks about his experience at this year’s Summer Jam Festival.
When TMZ caught up with the Wu-Tang Clan rapper and on Saturday (June 8), he revealed that he doesn’t hold the younger audience responsible for how they felt about his performance with Redman. He added that his primary objective was to go and show support for both Mister Cee and New York.
“I wasn’t mad at the crowd,” he said. “It was just a generation gap. I showed grace.”
He did, however, suggest that some of the pushback he received was nothing if not unwarranted. “I don’t think it’s fair. I would never point my finger at the crowd for not liking my music…I was there for Mister Cee and it was New York. I figured, I’m in New York, I’m in my backyard. [People] know who I am.”
As previously reported, the Wu-Tang Clan spitter took to social media following his performance at the annual festival over the weekend to say the crowd just wasn’t for him.
“Not our crowd at all,” he wrote in the comments section of an Instagram post of his performance. “Thanks again, New York and the whole tri-state (that showed up to the event) plus Pete[er Rosenberg] and Ebro [Darden] I got love for you guys, but never again.. at this point the generation gap is just too wide for me.. #nevercomingback”
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On Tuesday (June 4), TMZ caught up with Soulja Boy in Los Angeles, where they asked him about the situation.
“I don’t think he mean that. He probably just in his feelings,” he said. “He probably gon’ perform at a future event, you know what I’m saying? But shout out to him. People got different … I don’t know. That’s New York, though. Everybody supposed to know who he is.”
He concluded: “It don’t matter. That’s crazy. I didn’t know that. There probably was a lot of young people in the audience. Shout out to him. He’s definitely a legend, for sure. He entitled to respond however he feel like. It’s gon’ be all good.”
