Method Man

 Clifford Smith Jr. was born on March 2nd, 1971. 2 He is more popularly known as Method Man. He is an American rapper and songwriter. He is known as a member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He is also half of the hip hop duo Method Man & Redman. The stage name of his group was in reference to the 1979 film Method Man. In 1996, Smith won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, for "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Have to Get By" with American R&B artist Mary J. Blige, whom he currently stars with in Power Book II: Ghost, a spin-off of its original show Power.Smith has been in films including 187 (1997), Belly (1998), How High (2001), Garden State (2004), The Wackness (2008), Venom (2005), Red Tails (2012), Keanu (2016), and The Cobbler (2014). He co-starred with Redman, a frequent collaborator who hails from the East Coast, on the Fox sitcom Method & Red. Method Man has also appeared in regular roles in three HBO series, as Tug Daniels on Oz, Melvin "Cheese" Wagstaff in The Wire, and Rodney in The Deuce. 4. Method Man is also featured in The Last O.G., which is a TBS comedy.