The story is about the Wu-Tang clans,

and the

Wu-Tang clans,

and the Wu-Tang clans,

on April 29, 1994, and that was the day that Ernest Sayon, known to Method Man as Case,

was choked death by cops on Staten Island, a senseless tragedy that had a major ripple effect

on Wu-Tang's community and home base. On this episode, dice games, drug games,

stolen product dodged bullets, a death on Staten Island, and Wu-Tang clans, Method Man.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is The Screece Land.

From up on the roof, you can see everything. The sidewalk and the street, the cars coming

and people going, Staten Island hummed with activity. Clifford Smith, the teenage kid

the world would later know as Method Man, wanted to make sure that all that activity

down below wasn't following him. The young math, aka Cliff, he surveyed the scene

from his rooftop perch. No one was looking for him. No one was after him. Good.

He pulled the water cash from the pocket of his dirty jeans. He counted it, then he counted it again.

$800. He could hardly believe it was real, but it was real. It was surreal.

Not only the fact that he Clifford Smith had $800 in his hand, but that he had won it

on a $5 bet. An aspect, no less. He didn't make a habit of aspetting, but desperate times

and all that. An aspect is definitely desperate, if not stupid and cocky too.

That's when you make a bet on a dice game, but actually have no money to back it up

if that bet you made loses. Cliff didn't see any other choice. He needed the cash and was

willing to take a chance in order to get it. For a while he had a job, a good job,

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