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Beanie Sigel Talks T.I., Hip Hop & Jay-Z

November 25th, 2007 | Author: Shake

As T.I. awaits trial in a federal weapons case and while his attorneys file motions to suppress evidence and statements made during the arrest; the hip hop community is still left with questions. “Why on earth does he need all that?”, “Who is he going to war with?” etc.

But while the artists in Hip Hop take the politically correct route stating they don’t know enough to make a full comment and just offer their support to TIP, Philly rapper Beanie Sigel holds nothing back.

“I rap about what I know and what I see … The problem that I got with rappers is that if you’re not part of that lifestyle and that’s not what you do, then don’t talk about it. I give you the pros and cons, I give you both sides of it. If you really listening to my music, I tell a story. It’s not just me going out there and killing everybody,” Beans says on his Hip Hop vs America blog submission via BET.com. “I got a problem with certain rappers who don’t live that lifestyle who never did. They do it because they think that’s what’s selling records. They don’t know both sides.”

“Things like that make it hard. But T.I. was trippin.’ C’mon boss, who you going to war with? If you didn’t try it then, why would you try it now?” Beans continues. “People wait until a certain age to get those attributes attached to their name. Gangsters aren’t sworn in, they’re born in. You’re what you were in junior high.”

Sigel then suggests that its rappers [lack of] intelligence that makes them act the way they do.

“If you look at this generation, this generation is illiterate. These young rappers are making up their own language. It’s a lack of education … These young people don’t know how to express themselves. ‘What’s up homie? What the fuck,’ that’s all they know.”

Aside T.I. and the “dumb rappers who need teachin“ © Biggie; Beanie Sigel speaks on how hip hop is more than just music and how “they” don’t want “them” to make it.

“We’re making a lot of money in this music business from this thing of ours, this music, this hip hop thing,” Beanie says. “You got people like Jay-Z, Nelly who are crossing over into the corporate world and they don’t want us there … Jay-Z is predicted to be a billionaire from hip hop and making music with no college degree. You’ve got people who’ve been in school all of their lives and he’s about to be a billionaire and have fun on his way to doing that.”

“What we do is no worse than what people do in Hollywood, but it’s worse there because it’s a visual … The same thing they are doing to hip hop, they should be doing to Hollywood. They’ve been doing it forever. We’ve got a little two-minute video with a girl in a bikini, but they’re showing everything. They have parental discretion advised, so do we,” Beans says of the double standard between Hip Hop and Hollywood.

“I think they don’t like people next door to them in big mansions with big chains having parties. They don’t want us as their neighbors … “When I ride down the street in my Bentley, they look at me like I’m not even supposed to have that car. What I got to say to that is ‘stop hatin!’”

Beanie Sigel's much anticipated album, The Solution, hits stores December 11th. Check out the brand new song featuring Jay-Z, Gutted, by clicking here!

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