This article originally appeared in the December 1998 issue of SPIN.
When Method Man hung out with Nas and DMX this fall, the three rap stars drank Hennessy, smoked blunts, and shot a whole bunch of cops. This was all in the service of making a music video for director Hype Williams’s feature-film debut, Belly—a movie in which all three star—but it hardly felt like work. The vibe on the video set was hip-hop Rat Pack—think Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Peter Lawford mugging their way through Ocean’s Eleven, but with a much higher body count.
“Oh, Hype, why you kill me like that?” Method Man asked the director
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