Meth & Red get cut

FOX confirmed that it has officially pulled the plug on "Method & Red," the sitcom that starred Method Man and Redman as two fish-out-of-water rappers trying to make it in upper-class suburbia. The network had placed the show on hiatus, but it was long rumored that it would not be back for the 2005 season.

Almost as soon as the sitcom debuted on FOX in the spring, stories appeared in the press about strife on the set. "I'm not complaining about money, I'm not complaining about promotions," says Meth. "I'm complaining about 'Where are they trying to go with these storylines?' I'm a grown-ass man, I shouldn't be at a kid's birthday party [on TV]. Me and Redman, what we didn't realize when we came into this and tried to do this television show, [is that] we already had a audience. We was bringing an audience to FOX. They had us feeling like we was going to broaden our audience. See, the audience we brought to FOX, they alienated them off top if you ask me."

"I'm not badmouthing the show, 'cause for real, if me and Redman wasn't on that show, it would be great," he added. "The writing was not bad, it just wasn't for me and Redman. If Keenan and Kel was on there, it would've been funny. But me and Redman, based on [our past, our fans] already see us as hardcore, stoners or whatever - then they look at the show and they us speeding stuff up, using sound effects like 'boiiiing.' They look at this like, 'What in the hell?' I'm looking at it the same way. ... I appreciate FOX for giving us the opportunity to do it, it just wasn't a good marriage. We had to divorce."