@@rjm789The Wire, Boardwalk Empire and Banshee are my top three of all time. On a side note, WeeBay and Method Man sound a lot alike! Legendary show, best ever ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sharp Objects, Mare Of Easttown and Tokyo Vice are also very good. HBO always delivers!
You should try "Barry" the 3rd season just finished. It's amazingly well written, directed and it has a quality cast. You could probably binge watch the series in like 5 hours!
Never expected him to choose those two characters to have played instead of cheese lol! I actually forgot about the kid who jacks the cars. The Wire is brilliant.
Method Man was great as Cheese.. Really excellent. Kinda dislikable but deeply authentic and you could see him as a player with a flawed strategy to the "game". e.g. all about short-term gain with longer term strategy lacking. Great, great character.
I was just talking with my son's about the Wire. That and Sopranos ushered in a new Era of television. That's when HBO showed that a non network channel could make seriously entertaining content. Free of the confines of broadcast TV they were able to mesh the best of R rated movies and TV series into some of the best shows ever made.
I remember there being lots of talk about HBO back in the early aughts. I'm in the UK so we have a different TV situation, everyone used to get 5 channels and anything else was satellite TV, just like cable in the US. We didn't grow up with these standalone channels like HBO and Encore. So when people started talking about these TV shows in reverential terms, pilot episodes that cost $10million, we started to take note. Lost was the first hyper hyped TV show I remember being excited about, it was TV-as-event, when what's on makes the evening news. Then it went off the boil a little, Lost introduced me to the concept of the mid-season break which was coincidentally where I lost interest in Lost. Just finished The Wire, now I've just started Sopranos for my first proper watch thru
for me it started with Oz. GoT had the same promise. But indeed, without it, I don't think there would be a breaking bad, a better call saul, or boardwalk empire to enjoy. Band of Brothers was epic too.
Most UNDERRATED TV SERIES of all time! It's finally getting its flowers now, so to speak. But I was on it when it was running back in the day, and not alot of people was on it. Amazing writers and characters were PERFECT for ever part.
I know Im a little late but 5th season was ok, in fact season 5 is more of a season 2 than season 2 was, meaning it was the real downgrade especially coming out of season 4. Season 4 ends and they give you the feeling that the gang is gonna get back together and get Marlo. Then season 5 starts and its budget reductions, journalist and a made up serial killer investigation 😩🤦🏻♂️
@@hisholiness4537 sopranos is my personal favorite of the hbo trinity (Oz, sopranos, the wire) but the wire was better written in the way it showed real people in Baltimore to the extent that laws are in place in Baltimore becuase of the the wire spotlighting certain issues.. Sopranos was many great things but it's not like Tony or his family was the everyguy as much as they would like to think so
Before the final season of GOT, there was no argue about wich has been the greatest show of all time; GOT was way ahead of everyone. But at the end they crashed.
Game of Thrones actually was considered one of the best shows until after season 4 when the shitheads who ran the show ran out of book material to adapt. It's just the fact that it's been awhile since it was a good show that we all just... Oh I don't know "Kinda forgot"?
He really is a top quality actor. The Wire had indisputably the best cast of all time, and he definitely earned his place amongst them. He was funny, charismatic and utterly despicable all at the same time. I have never been so happy to see a character get his brains blown out.
There is a lot to like to about this clip, but the two things I like best is how Clifford developed and how down to earth he is midway through a career like that. Liked when I was 13, liked him now that I am 40. #2 his answer on the legacy of the Wire from his perspective. Like how it adds a perspective to the community, an option that people in the community typically do not perceive.
His growth as an actor is amazing, he’s fantastic as Davis McLean in power book 2, the cross examination scene with the teacher in season 2 I believe was perfect, it’s like he was made for that role.
The real goat of TV series. Sopranos, BB & Better Call Saul is also up there. But The Wire is really just modern Shakespeare. Just incredibly nuanced. The one thing I will say though, where BB has over both TW AND The Soprano’s was how it stuck the landing. TW didn’t flub the ending completely, it was just a bit rushed. The Sopranos ending was a big let down. I understand it more now that I’m older but that doesn’t change that leaving it so ambiguous like that hurt the overall series IMO but BB was a perfect bow on the entire series. Also I think Boardwalk Empire is also deserving of an honorable mention.
What a coincidence! I just finished The Wire and I have watched all those shows and am currently waiting for the latter half of season 6 of BCS. In the meantime, I am watching Boardwalk Empire.
@@satyris410 I understood what was going on when i was watching it. I watch it in real time as well as watching it some year back however that just my young self talking
Nighttime mid-90s, three of us plus the instructor pile into the car to take our final driver's test get our license's... as we pull away from the curb somebody turns the radio on and what do I hear for the first time? "Cash Rules Everything Around Me, C.R.E.A.M. Dolla-Dolla Bill Y'all..." Method Man has been kicking knowledge to the youth since back in the day.
Wow what a really humble and intelligent guy! He already became successful as a rap star before the Show, so he had a very unique perspectives of the more successful black goal or ghetto escape goal, so he really got to see the real game from the other side since rap relies upon glorifying the hood culture. This was an awesome video! Im really surprised i thought he was gonna be like his character in real life but the villians are always the nicest people lol this guy is smart!
I think the show was very popular cause you can ask a cop, you can ask someone from the street, someone from law, someone from a school district. They will all tell you how accurate the Wire was. It was too real for most.
Check out The Wire Dictionary here: ruclips.net/video/CLKme0idLYs/видео.html
It’s up there top 5-10. Breaking bad is the GOAT!
@@harrymanjanyou no it’s not, episodes storyline are great but it’s too slow, where there’s too much boring
@@cmaplefreak to each their own dude! whats your number 1? (and dont say GOT)
Succession, The Wire and Sopranos are the top shows of all time
@@rjm789The Wire, Boardwalk Empire and Banshee are my top three of all time. On a side note, WeeBay and Method Man sound a lot alike! Legendary show, best ever ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sharp Objects, Mare Of Easttown and Tokyo Vice are also very good. HBO always delivers!
Glad to see this show is still getting loved 20 years later.
Also, the price of the brick going up...
I should’ve known that line would show up sooner or later. 😆
Terrific interview. Method clearly a brilliant, good dude
Just started watching it and I'm on season 3 haha good stuff
😭😭😭
@@XxTheGoOfYxX enjoy! you just started your first viewing.... prepare for at least 1 rewatch a year 😂😂
There will never be a show like The Wire. The greatest show of all time.
Yessssssss
Easily
But there was a show exactly like The Wire. It was called The Wire
Game of thrones.
Breaking Bad and several other shows are better. That 5th season keeps The Wire from being in the GOAT convo
The Wire and The Sopranos. HBO hit it out the park with these 2 series. I have not seen anything come close to these shows in 20 yrs.
It's only 2 seasons, but if you have the chance watch HBO's ROME.
You should try "Barry" the 3rd season just finished. It's amazingly well written, directed and it has a quality cast. You could probably binge watch the series in like 5 hours!
Don't forget about Boardwalk Empire.
holla at Atlanta
Deadwood is also up there on the top 3. me personally I'd rank 1-The Wire. 2-Deadwood, 3- The sopranos.
That dog scene was so funny because Daniels thought Cheese was snitching 😂
😂 “One of those have your cake and eat it too days”.
“Looks like we broke him” 😭😭😭
"Animal cruelty, if you wanna run wild with it..."
"He had much love for me, even then"
@@JMR_2028 animal cruelty, if you wanna run wild with it
the way Dukie turned out is one of the saddest endings in all of cinema
Happens everyday in real life 🤷♂️
@@entertainme7523 that's factz
Dukie turned in to Pookie
@@atob2056 *Bubbles
He lied to his teacher I didn't like that
Never expected him to choose those two characters to have played instead of cheese lol! I actually forgot about the kid who jacks the cars. The Wire is brilliant.
How could you Forget Donut?
Did you see him all grown up in “We own this city”
@@Wideout4 that was a trip, it was fun spotting some of the old actors like Slim Charles
Method Man did a great job portraying Cheese. He was really good in this role.
Donut, who steals the cars, appeares also in We Own This City, as a local musician/artist. Dookie appears too as a policeman.
Did not catch that my first watch. Guess it means I have to rewatch it!
Method Man was great as Cheese.. Really excellent. Kinda dislikable but deeply authentic and you could see him as a player with a flawed strategy to the "game". e.g. all about short-term gain with longer term strategy lacking. Great, great character.
His character was supposed to be dislikable and he did a great job portraying it. I loved hating Cheese.
Kinda dislikable? It's a testament to his great acting that when I think of Cheese I feel instantly irritated.
@@richarddunne9802"my nephew...? Boy was always a disappointment.'.
Cheese was a SNAKE ... and that's all he would ever be. Slim Charles knew this, which is why he left Cheese where he was.
"That's for Prop Joe."
The wire might be the only show that I've watched numerous times , find something new in each episode every time and wish I was on even as an extra.
Looking at it I could actually see Method Man as Wee-Bey and Hassan Johnson as Cheese. But I’m glad it turned out the way it did.
The wire hands down the best series to touch our screens
The Sopranos would like a word.
@@ramonozorio84 sopranos is mid my guy
@@ramonozorio84 the wire was way better
@@ramonozorio84 na...it's on the list but def not number 1.
@@ramonozorio84 Second best. The Wire is just deeper, more real, sadder. It's beautiful.
I was just talking with my son's about the Wire. That and Sopranos ushered in a new Era of television. That's when HBO showed that a non network channel could make seriously entertaining content. Free of the confines of broadcast TV they were able to mesh the best of R rated movies and TV series into some of the best shows ever made.
I remember there being lots of talk about HBO back in the early aughts. I'm in the UK so we have a different TV situation, everyone used to get 5 channels and anything else was satellite TV, just like cable in the US. We didn't grow up with these standalone channels like HBO and Encore. So when people started talking about these TV shows in reverential terms, pilot episodes that cost $10million, we started to take note. Lost was the first hyper hyped TV show I remember being excited about, it was TV-as-event, when what's on makes the evening news. Then it went off the boil a little, Lost introduced me to the concept of the mid-season break which was coincidentally where I lost interest in Lost. Just finished The Wire, now I've just started Sopranos for my first proper watch thru
for me it started with Oz. GoT had the same promise. But indeed, without it, I don't think there would be a breaking bad, a better call saul, or boardwalk empire to enjoy. Band of Brothers was epic too.
You my dawg to Bunk has to be the funniest moment of The Wire.
Most UNDERRATED TV SERIES of all time! It's finally getting its flowers now, so to speak. But I was on it when it was running back in the day, and not alot of people was on it. Amazing writers and characters were PERFECT for ever part.
It's definitely NOT underrated. It's highly rated and on many top lists. Stop overusing underrated.
@@yugurtz it's true. I'm am and was one of the biggest fans. During it's run nobody hardly talked about The Wire hardly.
Underated haaaaa
Every Season of this show was amazing 😩
Exactly! Such a rare thing!
Thank you so many people sleep on Season 2
I know Im a little late but 5th season was ok, in fact season 5 is more of a season 2 than season 2 was, meaning it was the real downgrade especially coming out of season 4. Season 4 ends and they give you the feeling that the gang is gonna get back together and get Marlo. Then season 5 starts and its budget reductions, journalist and a made up serial killer investigation 😩🤦🏻♂️
The wire is OBJECTIVELY the best show ever written.. No contest
Sopranos.
@@hisholiness4537 sopranos is my personal favorite of the hbo trinity (Oz, sopranos, the wire) but the wire was better written in the way it showed real people in Baltimore to the extent that laws are in place in Baltimore becuase of the the wire spotlighting certain issues.. Sopranos was many great things but it's not like Tony or his family was the everyguy as much as they would like to think so
False they got a whole season you can literally skip
@@bradpitt1263 Which one?
@@bradpitt1263 Season 5? It was very good but not great.
The Sopranos, The wire, GOT(Till the 6th season). These were some of the best shows ever HBO really needs to make another classic like these
GOT in top 3? You need to watch better stuff
GoT is a terrible show altogether, it was just lucky that it was adapted from one of the greatest fantasy book series ever (so far).
Before the final season of GOT, there was no argue about wich has been the greatest show of all time; GOT was way ahead of everyone. But at the end they crashed.
game of thrones is chronic
Game of Thrones actually was considered one of the best shows until after season 4 when the shitheads who ran the show ran out of book material to adapt. It's just the fact that it's been awhile since it was a good show that we all just... Oh I don't know "Kinda forgot"?
He really is a top quality actor. The Wire had indisputably the best cast of all time, and he definitely earned his place amongst them. He was funny, charismatic and utterly despicable all at the same time. I have never been so happy to see a character get his brains blown out.
He was always my favorite in Wu-Tang. He was the one that did the best job branching out and reinventing himself.
They couldn’t have picked a better person to do this than Iron Lung, 20 years later The Wire is still the Goat 🐐
When Cheese first comes across Brother Mouzone for the first time 😂 10/10 all and everyday.
Method man chosing Dookie and the car stealing kid shows he's a real one. Not a day goes by when I don't miss this series
"We Own This City" is like this decades the wire, a lot of folks from here are there
Cheese was perfectly cast. Method Man did awesome in that role.
Just rewatched it for the third time. It’s like their were no small roles. They did a great job developing characters. Omar was one of the best.
The last names wagstaff, Barksdale,Stanfield these names sound like a bunch of English professors at hogwarts.
The origin of some first names too is french like Tyrell and Andre
I can't believe Wee Bey is an actor. Dude was so real, you believed it.
There is a lot to like to about this clip, but the two things I like best is how Clifford developed and how down to earth he is midway through a career like that. Liked when I was 13, liked him now that I am 40. #2 his answer on the legacy of the Wire from his perspective. Like how it adds a perspective to the community, an option that people in the community typically do not perceive.
One of the illest series of ALL-TIMES. Hands down no arguments. 🏆🏆
Method Man answer all your questions about the wire ? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit
That role turned method man from hip hop legend to also be tv legend.
Donut! Was the chronic car thief 😂🤣
His growth as an actor is amazing, he’s fantastic as Davis McLean in power book 2, the cross examination scene with the teacher in season 2 I believe was perfect, it’s like he was made for that role.
M-E-T-H-O-D MAN!💯
The real goat of TV series. Sopranos, BB & Better Call Saul is also up there. But The Wire is really just modern Shakespeare. Just incredibly nuanced. The one thing I will say though, where BB has over both TW AND The Soprano’s was how it stuck the landing. TW didn’t flub the ending completely, it was just a bit rushed. The Sopranos ending was a big let down. I understand it more now that I’m older but that doesn’t change that leaving it so ambiguous like that hurt the overall series IMO but BB was a perfect bow on the entire series. Also I think Boardwalk Empire is also deserving of an honorable mention.
What a coincidence! I just finished The Wire and I have watched all those shows and am currently waiting for the latter half of season 6 of BCS. In the meantime, I am watching Boardwalk Empire.
One my all-time favorite series I literally grew up on this I was a preteen when it initially came out. Love this show
Think you were probably a bit young, tho thats my grown-up self talking.
@@satyris410 I understood what was going on when i was watching it. I watch it in real time as well as watching it some year back however that just my young self talking
My absolute favorite show of all time!! Have the whole series on dvd!!
Great show, great character, great actor,
The cheese stands alone
Yo this was one of his best roles he played cheese like a Total G!
*Best lawyer ever. If you know you know.*
You know 😂😂👀
He never mentioned whether Cheese or Drac was the Father of Randy.
HBO we need 4K Physical Releases for The Wire, Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood, and more.
Can’t believe 20 years already wow!
Ive rewatched this show at least 4 times
3:06 Glad to see you learned your lesson from Oz. 🤣🤣
20th anniversary, wow. Still watching and enjoying the YT clips like it's the first time.
Excellent interview! 🌟
We need more of this!!
American artist. Glad I was able to be graced with your art.
“You want it to be one way”
“But it’s the other way!!”
The best of the best tv show ever. Thumbs up if you've re-run the whole 60 hours package at least 10 times!
Doing so riiitgght now
twice, but i will get there
So weird to see him here like this giving a Q&A. He looks so different, and it’s crazy to see him as talking about Cheese without being Cheese.
Yeah man its called….acting
This was awesome to see. Loved his character and The Wire will always be one of my favorites.
So excited that this is happening AND with Method Man!!
Method Man crushed his character Cheese to the point that I don’t trust him out of character😜
Welch's grape soda is straight up old school! Accept no substitutes..............."Yeah, his name rings out but so does mine...."
The kid that steals car is called Donut, if you search for donut supercut there's a bunch of great clips
Massive props to Method Man!
I love how the creators played to Method Mans strenghts and made Cheese kind of like a goofy character with funny lines
Amazing set to work on. I Loved it. I'll be revealing more about this soon. 👀 Peace to all!
The fact that we never got to see Avon and Marlo go head up is the biggest tragedy ever
Not realistic, they both have people under them for a reason.
Bring this show back.
Season 4 of The Wire is the greatest season of any TV show ever
Just finished binging watching the WIre ... Mezmorising !!
Hahahaha OMG, the chronic car thief!! I remember wishing that kid had more screen time!!!
Haha me too 😂
1:02 legendary
Rest In Peace Proposition Joe
How did they not ask him about Randy being his son?!
Nighttime mid-90s, three of us plus the instructor pile into the car to take our final driver's test get our license's... as we pull away from the curb somebody turns the radio on and what do I hear for the first time?
"Cash Rules Everything Around Me, C.R.E.A.M. Dolla-Dolla Bill Y'all..."
Method Man has been kicking knowledge to the youth since back in the day.
My favorite scene is his first one where he takes Ziggy's car. The whole wild west hood scene was crazy.
The legacy of the Wire is knowledge!
It was great to see some of the actors in the latest HBO series about Baltimore.
Nice shirt, looking like a whole slice of Kraft Cheese. Loved, loved, loved you on the greatest show to ever grace the tv.
Real cool brother, salute
Cheese Wagstaff is Randy Wagstaff’s father.
forreal?
@@ianauki yes. Confirmed by David Simon interview.
@@Cbart23 wow that's dope, wish they had a cameo together
A masterpiece of television.
I like the background music playing the whole time lol
The wire is the best tv show ever made.
This is still in my opinion the best TV series of all times!!!
Method did an excellent job with that character
Wow what a really humble and intelligent guy! He already became successful as a rap star before the Show, so he had a very unique perspectives of the more successful black goal or ghetto escape goal, so he really got to see the real game from the other side since rap relies upon glorifying the hood culture. This was an awesome video! Im really surprised i thought he was gonna be like his character in real life but the villians are always the nicest people lol this guy is smart!
I appreciate that he is wearing a shirt that reminds me of actual cheese in this interview. :)
The 4th season definitely was one of the best seasons.
Method Man is a good dude and it's not easy playing such hated characters like he did in Copland and Oz and especially the Wire.
Cheese is randy's dad
People dont' realize that Cheese is Randy's father. They have the same last name.
no way forreal?
@@ianauki yea for real. David Simon admitted it. Now go look at the Prop Joe prequel and you will see his nephew all in him
353 views lolol. the show is still incredibly underrated.
Best show of all time 🔥
Shout out to all of y'all wo been watching clips of the corner and the wire.
He had much love for me. even at the end
More of these please @HBO!!!
Prop Joe is one of my favourite tv characters ever
And?
I think the show was very popular cause you can ask a cop, you can ask someone from the street, someone from law, someone from a school district. They will all tell you how accurate the Wire was. It was too real for most.
So Randy was his kid right? I mean how common is Wagstaff lol
Dude crushed it
Wire is in the conversation for the GOAT!
Mr. Mef!!!!🔥💯💪🏾