Legendary rapper and entertainer Method Man of the famed Wu-Tang Clan will not be charged after reports a man accused the hip-hop icon of assaulting him at a Crunch Fitness on Staten Island, the NYPD said Friday.
No police report has been filed for an assault in the incident and no arrest was made, according to a police source.
A 28-year-old man accused the rapper, 53, whose real name is Clifford Smith, of punching him in the face after the two ran into each other at the Staten Island gym on Thursday, according to a police source. But the Wu-Tang Clan co-founder and “Protect Ya Neck” rapper said that’s not how things went down.
“Mr. Smith categorically denies the allegations as reported and has not been the subject of an arrest by any law enforcement agency,” a representative for Smith wrote in an email to the Daily News.
A source confirmed to th News there was “no probable cause,” to arrest Smith.
The purported accuser was reportedly in a relationship with Smith’s daughter Cheyenne Smith, 28, more than a decade ago, when they were both around 18.
Last year the famous rapper’s daughter, who goes by “Chey,” launched her own music career, dropping a video for the single “Boujee & Ghetto,” in which she raps in a luxury car driving to her family’s home on Staten Island.
Smith, who was born in Hempstead, N.Y., made a name for himself as an actor as well as a rapper, playing gangster Melvin “Cheese” Wagstaff in the HBO series “The Wire.”
