Method Man (real name Clifford Smith) has broken his silence on his arrest on tax evasion charges earlier this week.
“You know, when you don’t file [your taxes], that’s what happens,” Method Man explained of his recent tax troubles in an interview with Big Tigger on Wednesday. “So that’s the lesson I learned. I think it was four years and after three years that’s when it’s a problem. It’s not a money thing because I paid it when they did that thing with the truck and contrary to everyone’s belief, the truck wasn’t repossessed. It’s different when the government comes and takes a truck, they want their money. I took the black people route. I took the ghetto route. [laughs] But you know, you can’t be waiting ’til the last minute and stuff like that. If it’s not right there in your face, then these things happen…It’s my fault totally. I just don’t like things to get blown outta portion and I’m glad that you gave me the option to speak my peace…The government is not playing, Uncle Sam pimp slapped me and it’s a lesson learned and I’m gonna take this and learn from it. Everybody [in jail] was cool, I live in Staten Island so it was nothing.”
Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man was taken into police custody in Staten Island, N.Y. early Monday on charges of tax-evasion, according to silive.com.
The 38-year-old is no stranger to troubles with the tax man. In March, Meth’s 2008 Lincoln Navigator was repossessed from outside his home by the Department of Taxation after he was reportedly $52,503 in arrears.
“Myself, I’m a pothead,” he told The NY Daily News at the time. “It’s no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else.”
He will be arraigned later today at Staten Island criminal court and could face four years in jail if convicted.
Method Man will shoot you, if you ask for his autograph. Too weed will do that to you. A Houston woman who is suing the Wu-Tang star, claiming he shot her with a pellet gun after she asked for autograph after a concert with Redman last November.
He says he was signing autographs out the back window of his tour bus when he suddenly pulled out the weapon unloaded into her chest multiple times.
“These aren’t life or death injuries. She’s alive. She’s not paralyzed. She’s moved on with her life as far as the injuries are concerned, but punitive damages are to punish the person who did the damage, and that’s the reason we’ve done this,” her attorney, Daniel Horowitz, tells ABC.
Method Man insists he’s not broke. In fact, he’s got a very interesting reason for why New York State tax collectors repoed his 2008 Lincoln Navigator from his Staten Island home last week–it’s because he is a weedhead. Read the rest of this entry »
Meth, whose real name is Clifford Smith, had his 2008 Lincoln Navigator seized by New York State Tax Collectors last week because he owes $52,503 in personal income taxes.
The vehicle was reportedly seized Wednesday from the Wu-Tang Clan member’s home in Staten Island, NY.
The NY Post writes: The vehicle was reportedly taken from his Staten Island home at 6 a.m. local time on Wednesday, March 18. The Wu Tang Clan rapper-turned-actor reportedly owes $52,503 in income taxes…..
Kanye West, Common, Method Man and Redman, and their respective Universal Music Group labels, were sued on Thursday by the daughter of Joe Farrell for sampling the late jazz musician’s work without a clearance.
