Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man won’t be charged in alleged Staten Island gym fight

Legendary rapper and entertainer Method Man of the famed Wu-Tang Clan volition not beryllium charged aft reports a antheral accused the hip-hop icon of assaulting him astatine a Crunch Fitness connected Staten Island, the NYPD said Friday.

No constabulary study has been filed for an battle successful the incidental and nary apprehension was made, according to a constabulary source.

A 28-year-old antheral accused the rapper, 53, whose existent sanction is Clifford Smith, of punching him successful the look aft the 2 ran into each different astatine the Staten Island gym connected Thursday, according to a constabulary source. But the Wu-Tang Clan co-founder and “Protect Ya Neck” rapper said that’s not however things went down.

“Mr. Smith categorically denies the allegations arsenic reported and has not been the taxable of an apprehension by immoderate instrumentality enforcement agency,” a typical for Smith wrote successful an email to the Daily News.

A root confirmed to th News determination was “no probable cause,” to apprehension Smith.

The purported accuser was reportedly successful a narration with Smith’s girl Cheyenne Smith, 28, much than a decennary ago, erstwhile they were some astir 18.

Last twelvemonth the celebrated rapper’s daughter, who goes by “Chey,” launched her ain euphony career, dropping a video for the azygous “Boujee & Ghetto,” successful which she raps successful a luxury car driving to her family’s location connected Staten Island.

Smith, who was calved successful Hempstead, N.Y., made a sanction for himself arsenic an histrion arsenic good arsenic a rapper, playing gangster Melvin “Cheese” Wagstaff successful the HBO bid “The Wire.”