Tommy Lee had an exclusive interview with Loudwire , where he was asked about his nu metal project Methods Of Mayhem
He said:
“I got so much f*cking bull**it in 2000,”
“I needed to do all the s*it I had inside of me. It had to come out, like coming out of the closet or something. I had all these ideas and I was just doing Motley and I had to break away from that to go do this. Creatively, I was dying.”
“I took so much flak for that [self-titled] record. ‘What the f*ck? Tommy Lee’s a rapper now?’ No, you f*cking morons, it has nothing to do with that. I’m a drummer, first of all, everything I do, I do with rhythm. Just because you’re singing a track or screaming a track that feels like it’s rap… No, I never claimed to be a rapper.”
“I took a heap of f**king bull**it for that and I was like, ‘You know what? Whatever. I know what it is; it’s me being rhythmic and this is some brand new s*it. You’re gonna take flak any time you push like that from your fans, because they’re used to seeing you do one thing. Anytime you go outside that thing, they’re like, ‘What the f*ck is this bulls**t?’ I listen to that record now and that record was way ahead of its time.”