Tical, produced by the RZA and put out by Def Jam in 1994, was a phenomenal album, and 1998's Tical 2000: Judgment Day was only marginally less so. He made Blackout! with frequent artistic and commercial collaborator—and fellow deodorant shiller—Redman, an album that was a lot looser and bonged-out than his previous work. Wu-Tang as a unit is self-consciously dark and serious, and Method Man seems to be pretty confrontational, clashing with and complaining about a litany of entertainment-industry types—so getting to cut up a bit with Redman (and also in movies such as How High and Soul Plane) is probably good for dad's heart.