“I’m glad so many of the nominees were hip-hop, but they should have my man Rick Ross up in there,” says Redman of the rapper, whose “Teflon Don” was shut out of the hip-hop categories. He loves the fact that so many rappers were honored with 2011 Grammy nominations last week, although he says that there was one glaring omission.
With “Reggie” out and two more albums on the way, Redman says he’s hungry to contribute a unique perspective to the hip-hop community. Redman adds that the new film project will be “marijuana-related, but it’s gotta make sense.
“I’m like, ‘If you’re not gonna do it, why not just do the damn movie then and stop playing!'” In June 2013, Redman announced that his next studio album Muddy Waters 2 would be released in late 2013 via Entertainment One and he would release a mixtape to. “Universal is not giving up the names and characters,” he explains. Redman is also writing a screenplay for a new movie starring Method Man and himself, but he says that “How High 2,” the rumored follow-up to the rappers’ 2001 stoner comedy, will probably never get made due to “rights and paper work. The rapper also plans to release “Blackout! 3,” his third collaborative effort with Method Man, sometime next year. He was also established as a member of the EPMD-led Def Squad (initially known as the Hit Squad).
As for his other musical projects, Redman says that he has “five songs” ready for “Muddy Waters 2,” and that the album will be “another classic” when it is released in 2011. Each of Redman's successive releases during the '90s, including Dare Iz a Darkside (1994), Muddy Waters (1996), and Doc's da Name (1999), went gold in the U.S.