Parenting & Family Quote by Method Man

It lands like a snapshot, but it’s really a résumé. Method Man frames the millennium rollover as a three-item inventory: money, celebration, family. The phrasing matters: “holding dough and champagne” is flashy on its face, the classic rap shorthand for having made it. Then he doubles back with “and holding my kids,” a pivot that quietly reroutes the flex into something sturdier. He doesn’t say he was surrounded by success; he says he was physically holding it. Possession becomes touch, status becomes responsibility.

The Year 2000 marker carries its own cultural noise: Y2K anxiety, end-times talk, New York’s Times Square spectacle. Against that backdrop, the line reads like a personal counter-programming. While the culture dramatized apocalypse or futurism, he’s emphasizing the tangible present. It’s not about the world ending or restarting; it’s about what you can keep in your hands when the countdown hits zero.

There’s subtextual tension, too. “Dough and champagne” signals the volatility of rap’s rewards: cash is liquid, champagne is literally fizz. Kids aren’t. Putting them in the same sentence highlights what’s fleeting versus what’s binding. Coming from a Wu-Tang figure whose mythos often leans gritty and street-credentialed, the domestic image also functions as a subtle rebrand: adulthood as triumph, not compromise. The bar flexes, but it also testifies.