After last weeks reports that Method Mans 2008 Lincoln Navigator was seized because he hadnt paid his taxes, the rapper has announced it wasnt because he couldnt afford it, but because he was high.

Speaking to the New York Daily News, Method Man revealed that the Department of Taxation visited his Long Island home in the early hours of the morning with "four NYPD cops and the repo team. [I] knew why they were there. It wasnt like Oh my God ! Noo !! Dont take it ! like it is on that TV show ["Operation Repo"]. I was half-dressed, and it was so early that I just said, Okay, youre taking the truck. ... Aight."

"Myself, Im a pothead," Meth added. "Its no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else. Sure, [the tax department] sent letters to my house saying, We need this money. They started sending them in 2002. ... Here it is, 2009, and I never paid this sh** because I dont think like that !"

Despite the current state of the economy, Method Man claims the money itself has never been a problem.

"I could have easily just written them a check for whatever amount, but no I waited until they knocked on this door and were like, We got your truck and we outta here, " said the rapper.

"Ive found checks from 2005 that have never been opened yet," he explained. "And were talking a significant amount of money ! But I never opened [the tax departments] letters ... so this is how the tax man came to Meths house and took his truck. Not because I was broke ! I got plenty of money !"