Method Man recently made an appearance on Math Hoffa’s podcast and spoke about an incident that happened in 2001 involving Destiny’s Child. 

The rapper said the incident happened during Janet Jackson’s ‘MTV Icon’ special and that things went south because of the “low self-esteem” he had at the time. Method Man started by saying “I didn’t like myself, so I didn’t like anybody f**king else. So that meant anything that would have come in my circumference at that point in time was gonna get it. My family went through a lot with my ass during that era, man. And I can admit that I did take a lot of my fucking misery out on them, and they did not deserve it. And I took some of my misery out on people at Def Jam that did not fucking deserve it.”

Method Man went on to say he met Destiny’s Child in 1999 when they had different group members, and that the incident occurred when they had gotten a new member—Michelle Williams. Meth said he walked up to the group at the MTV special and tried to say hello, but they didn’t hear him. He perceived them not hearing him as a snub, which caused him to snub them back. 

Meth said, “Now, my a**, in my head, with my low self-esteem is like, ‘They just shitted on me.’ When in fact, they didn’t even hear me. It was so loud in that muthaf**ka. That’s the excuse that I’m giving right now – they didn’t even fucking hear me. Afterward, Rockwilder, he was gonna do the ‘Bootylicious’ song for them. He comes over, he’s talking to them, he’s like, ‘Oh, you know Red and Meth?’ And they put their hands out to shake, and I kept my hand here and was like, ‘Go ‘head with that Hollywood s**t.’”

He then apologized to the group, saying “To this day, that s**t hurt my heart because neither Kelly, Beyoncé or Michelle ever did any-f**king-thing to me.” He continued saying “But me being so miserable and in that fucking moment, I felt like they wasn’t treating me the way I should have been treated. Who am I to think that about these girls? They’re here to promote themselves and break records and things of that nature. And it was not about me, it was about Janet-fucking-Jackson. And to this day, man, I don’t think I’ve ever apologized for that.”