Method Man Closes Wu-Tang’s Rock Hall Speech: “You Can Kiss My Inducted Ass”
RZA led the speech. Method Man ended it — and he only needed two lines to own the night.
The Wu-Tang Clan was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday night (November 14) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, presented by Chris Rock, with all 10 current members on stage for the acceptance.
After RZA’s remarks, Method Man stepped to the podium, paid tribute to the group’s fallen brother — “Rest in peace to ODB” — and summed up the whole 33-year run in one breath.
“We went from being banned on the radio to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” he said, to resounding cheers from the room.
Then he turned to everybody who ever doubted the Clan: “You can kiss my inducted ass.”
The line landed as the last word on a night that also saw the Clan run a jazz-backed medley of “C.R.E.A.M.” and ODB’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya,” and Queen Latifah and MC Lyte receive Early Influence honors.
Thirty-three years after Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the group radio once would not touch is in the Hall — on its first nomination. An edited broadcast of the ceremony airs this December.
Reporting: AFP coverage of the 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony (November 14, 2026). Video from inside the Peacock Theater: Jessica Golich (@jessicagolich). Cover photo: Method Man with the Clan at the podium (frame from Golich’s footage).
