Robbed hit of the week 8/26/19 - Method Man's "Bring The Pain"...
from the album Tical (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #45
This week's "robbed hit" comes from rapper Method Man, who originally as Clifford Smith Jr. came from the streets of Staten Island, New York, to join one of the most influential groups of the time, the Wu-Tang Clan. The group released their landmark debut album Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), in 1993. Their first success was actually with the track "Method Man", which went to #40 on the R&B chart and #69 on the pop Hot 100 in Billboard magazine. Pretty much a solo track featuring the rapper, "Method Man" also appeared on his own debut solo album Tical, which was released the following year. The first single released from that first album, though, was "Bring The Pain", which was produced by Wu-Tang bandmate RZA. The record took off and it almost made Casey Kasem's countdown...
While "Bring The Pain" climbed to #30 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, the song stopped short of the pop top-40, spending three weeks at #45 in December of 1994. On the Rap Singles chart, the single made it to #4. But by the summer of the following year, the rapper would find himself in the top-3 with some help from a woman named Mary J. Blige.
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And here's Method performing the song live in 1994...
and at the 1995 Source Awards, Method Man pulled the whole Wu-Tang Clan to perform it...
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