Blackout! is the debut studio album by American
hip hop duo
Method Man & Redman. It is the first full-length release by
Method Man and
Redman after many collaborations. The album continued a string of highly successful Def Jam releases in the late 1990s. The album debuted at #3 on the
Billboard 200 with first week sales of 254,000 copies and served as a bit of a precursor to the 2001 major studio film
How High. Both rappers enjoyed perhaps the height of their popularity as a tandem after the success of the album and its three charted singles. The singles were also popular videos which were mainstays on MTV and BET. The sequel to the album,
Blackout! 2, was released on May 19, 2009.