After news that Method Man is dropping a new album on August 21, the hip-hop vet releases "The Meth Lab" featuring Streetlife and Hanz On. From the streets of Shaolin, Meth drops gritty bars over the Cee The Architek-produced record. "Welcome to the meth lab, listen, It’s time to cook/Not confessions of a video vixen, we by the book/Start the fire, I can tell what you thinking, just by a look/I’m a crook, like some fish in a barrel, I got em hooked," raps the How High MC in the beginning of his verse. Streetlife and Hanz take over the next verses. "The Meth Lab" is the lead single off the full-length album by the same name. Method Man talked about his Staten Island focus on the new album.

"I wanted this one to be a platform for more Staten Island artists to be heard that aren’t getting heard, because you know if it isn’t Wu Tang–I mean, we never blocked anyone from trying to get a record deal," he said to Nerdist. "I mean the way the record industry works is, if something’s not broke, don’t fix it. Bottom line is there’s a lot more talent to be heard from Staten Island outside of Wu Tang artists, and these kids are dope. I wanted to just give them a platform to be heard."

Watch the animated "Breaking Bad"-themed album trailer below and bump the single above.

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