{"id":893215,"date":"2026-09-15T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893215\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T19:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:46:15","slug":"method-man-joins-cbs-show-cupertino-as-rapper-suing-ai-music-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893215\/","title":{"rendered":"Method Man Joins CBS Show ‘Cupertino’ as Rapper Suing AI Music Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCliff Smith may be known to most as Method Man<\/a>, but in \u201cCupertino<\/a>,\u201d he is Yungwood.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Wu-Tang Clan member and actor will guest star in the CBS drama series as a rapper who picks a legal fight against an AI music studio that is negatively impacting his streaming revenue.<\/p>\n

\n\tPremiering Oct. 8 and airing Thursdays on CBS, \u201cCupertino\u201d is a David vs. Goliath legal drama. It follows a lawyer (played by Mike Colter) who is being cheated out of his stock options by his former employer, a tech startup.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRefusing to back down, he joins forces with another recently fired attorney (Rachel Keller) to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite and help them fight back in a high-stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley,\u201d according to the logline. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCupertino\u201d also stars Ella Stiller, Busy Philipps, Ren\u00e9e Elise Goldsberry and Nik Dodani. The series hails from producing power couple Robert and Michelle King, who also created \u201cThe Good Wife,\u201d \u201cThe Good Fight,\u201d \u201cEvil\u201d and \u201cElsbeth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSmith starred as attorney David MacLean opposite Mary J. Blige in all four seasons of Starz\u2019s \u201cPower Book II: Ghost,\u201d a role for which he won four consecutive NAACP Image Awards. Earlier this year, he starred alongside Kelly Rowland in Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 rom-com \u201cRelationship Goals.\u201d His acting credits also include \u201cHow High,\u201d \u201cGarden State,\u201d \u201cSoul Plane\u201d and \u201cMethod & Red,\u201d a short-lived Fox sitcom in which Method Man and Redman played fictionalized versions of themselves.<\/p>\n

\n\tSmith is represented by Shauna Garr, CAA and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.<\/p>\n

\n\tView first-look photos of Smith in \u201cCupertino\u201d below.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tCliff \u201cMethod Man\u201d Smith as Yungwood and Mike Colter as Michael Price in \u201cCupertino\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tElizabeth Fisher\/CBS<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJoe Morton as Bayard Diamond and Cliff \u201cMethod Man\u201d Smith as Yungwood in \u201cCupertino\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tElizabeth Fisher\/CBS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cliff Smith may be known to most as Method Man, but in \u201cCupertino,\u201d he is Yungwood. The Wu-Tang…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,139342,134,187324,136],"class_list":["post-893215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cupertino","tag-entertainment","tag-method-man","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}