Before there was Method Man, Tical, Johnny Blaze and the rest of his aliases, there was just Clifford Smith. Born on April 1, 1971 in Long Island, NY, Clifford was raised along with two sisters in both Long Island with his mother and Staten Island with his father.
The soon to be Method Man was taught by his father to play the drums and learn poems that began early rap, which had a huge influence on him. That was not the only influence on the soon to be Method Man; he was also a comic book fanatic, imagining himself as characters such as Ghost...
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