Wu-Tang star criticises modern hip-hop

Wu-Tang Clan's Method Man has said hip-hop music is not as good as it was in the '90s.

Method Man, real name Clifford Smith, told New York reporters: "The music was way more grounded than it is today. Today, you don't feel the movement. Back then, you felt the movement.

"I mean, the whole hip-hop movement. Like when Wu-Tang Clan came in, it was like regardless of where we went, people knew who we were.

"Or if we were in a new city, there was one person who knew who we was, and that would spread to ten more people, and so on and so forth, up until it was, 'Oh, you ain't up on that Wu-Tang stuff? Oh you ain't down homie!'"

He continued: "Same thing with Cash Money, No Limit, Death Row - it goes on and on, all these movements. You don't have that anymore."

The musician is currently promoting big screen comedy drama The Wackness.