Yesterday a video leaked of Beanie Sigel venting about Jay-Z and Roc-a-Fella records. Bean’s anger directed towards Jay-Z is beyond music, and centers on Sigel’s feelings that Jay let him down, dishonored their friendship. It’s out of my realm to comment on that. I’ve never been in legal problems to the extent of Sigel, nor had my freedom taken away. So, all the venom spewed in the video at Jay-Z may or may not be justified. What I reference in my title is just the fact that Beans only seems to be on any website, newspaper, magazine etc because of negativity. The recent viral videos has amassed over 60,000 views simply because a down and out emcee speaks ill against possibly the greatest rapper in Hip Hop right now and then attacks Hip Hop’s most promising star, Drake. The Drake diss comes out of nowhere, and again, will bring nothing positive to anybody. Sigel won’t see any boost in sales of his music because there are none. Drake’s not going to say s**t back because he’s too busy touring late night talk shows, and he’s smart enough to realize he has nothing to gain by going against the Broad Street Bully. But that’s what a bully does, and that’s why the bullys never win.
I enjoy some of Sigel’s music, and honestly hope things work out for him. But as the Beatles say “If you go around talking about minds that hate, you’re not going to make it with anyone anyway… But you know it’s going to be alright…” Let’s hope the last part works out for Sigel. See the video I’m talking about below.