Beanie Sigel Disputes Memphis Bleek Comments

Despite rapper Memphis Bleek's claims in a recent interview that he had reached out to his former Roc-A-Fella Records labelmate Beanie Sigel, Beans is claiming that he hasn't heard from Bleek at all. Sigel is preparing to enter prison for the next eighteen months, and says that Bleek has not uttered a word to him.

"Memphis Bleek ain't never reach out to me or try to reach out to me," Sigel told XXL. "I brought Memphis Bleek to my neighborhood. Memphis Bleek been to my mother's house. He ate from my mother's food. So, if he wanted to reach out to me, I ain't a hard person to find. I ain't a hard person to find at all. But, I don't have no gripe with Bleek. There's no gripe with Bleek. That's like my brother. We came into the game together. We grew up together in the music business. I don't have no gripe with him."

Beanie Sigel Discusses Prison, Jay-Z

In a few weeks, rapper Beanie Sigel will begin a two-year prison sentence for failure to pay his taxes. Talking to XXL, Beanie discussed his state of mind heading back into jail and how he plans on changing his life once he's released in 2014.

"I’m done [with prison]. It’s over!" he said. "In that environment, this outside world…you gotta hang all that up. When I go in there, I won’t be Beanie Sigel. I’ll be 57613-066. That’s who I’ll be. I won’t be Beanie Sigel. I’m not gonna sit in my cell and write rhymes everyday. That’s a real thing inside. There’s people inside who ain’t ever coming out of those buildings. I would talk to them and do my best to be a window for some of ’em who are never gonna make it outta there. We all have the same commissary, we all have the same amount of money on our books, we all gonna eat the same food and nobody cell gonna look different. I’m gonna be a number like everybody else."

He also downplayed any chance of a reconciliation with Jay-Z; but revealed that he holds no animosity towards his former mentor.

"There’s no need for that conversation anymore [with Jay-Z]...it’s been too long," he said. "That’s all I ever wanted. Jay-Z don’t owe me a dime. What me and Jay had or what I thought we had was a brothership that was beyond music and business. A brothership that I trusted and that I’d put my life in harm’s way for ‘this thing of ours, this La Familia.’ I thought it was bigger than music, I thought it was bigger than business, but as I got older and thought about it…that’s all it was, it was business. So, the conversation is for what? I kind of understand…Jay was growing, he’s in a different space, he was rubbing shoulders with different people and when you get around certain people and you get into a certain bracket, sometimes you got to disassociate yourselves with the hoodlums...at one point, I thought this rap sh*t ruined me. I got in more trouble being Beanie Sigel than when I was just Mac."

Scarface & Beanie Sigel Discuss Album

Beanie Sigel and Scarface shared the details of their upcoming joint project Mac & Brad during an interview with Statik Selektah of Shade 45's "Showoff Radio." The news broke earlier this week that the two would be releasing the album and they spoke at-length about why they wanted to do it.

“I can’t wait for this sh*t. Me and Beans doing some easy sh*t right now," Face said. "You know, separate solo acts but eventually we gonna double back and do that sh*t. I just wanted to break that news on XM man, Shade 45. I’m f**king with it.”

“That’s real rap cause that’s like my brother, my big brother,” said Sigel. “From my first album The Truth…my A&R they asked me ‘Yo, who you wanna work with?’ And I was like ‘Scarface.’ Like from the rip. I was set, like if I never did another record being able to do a record with Face I was cool with that man. My mission was complete.”

Beanie Sigel Signs New Deal

Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel has signed a new distribution deal with EMI. According to AllHipHop, the deal was spearheaded by industry executive Chris Schwartz and Sigel shared the specifics surrounding the new deal and how it will affect his music going forward.

“That’s what kind of pushed me to really do this album. I was sought out by Chris Schwartz. He had a situation at EMI and was looking for an artist,” Sigel explained. “I had just recorded a couple songs in the studio. Somebody heard a record and was like, ‘You should check out Beanie; he hasn’t been doing anything.’

“The first conversation was kind of generic – it was like, ‘Uhh yeah.’ I had deals on the table; I’ve been approached by everybody from everywhere – from E1, well to Koch first, to E1 to Asylum," he added. "For me to sign to a major, it’s like, ‘For what?’ I’m too far advanced in my career to go to a 360 deal. I’ve learned too much of the business to put myself in that position now.”

Beanie Sigel Is A Drake Fan?

While some hardcore hip hoppers have dismissed Young Money superstar Drake for his singsongy musical approach and 'Sensitive Guy' persona, Philly's Beanie Sigel voiced his appreciation for the Toronto-born rapper.

"You can't front on him. Drake's gonna be around for a long time. His talent is going to outrun whatever you say about him," Sigel says. "His lane is so crazy. I got Drake's album. I bought his album like three times. Like, he got everything. Like, it's everything on there you can rock to. You can rock to everything -- he go R&B, he go hip-hop, he go lyrics."

Beanie Sigel Supports Rick Ross

Beanie Sigel has voiced his support for Rick Ross and downplayed the rapper's past as a corrections officer. When it was revealed years ago that Ross had a history in law enforcement, several denounced the Miami-based superstar; due to the fact that much of his lyrics focus on lavish drug kingpin tales. But to Sigel, its not a big deal.

"I just don't think he should have lied about it," Sigel said in an interview. "He should have just kept it real. He had a j-o-b. He was gigging. He probably took that job to be in a position where as though he had people in there that he could look out for. My mom was a correctional officer. When I went to jail, there was n*ggas who had the will. Life. Never coming home..."

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Beanie Sigel Explains His Absence

Beanie Sigel knows that he's been away for awhile. Despite making constant waves with his apologies and non-apologies to former friend Jay-Z, Sigel hasn't released any music lately. But the Broad Street Bully explained his hiatus recently.

He just wanted to spend time with family.

"I think it's all timing with me. I just had to go back," Sigel said in an interview. "For me, running constantly since I was first came on the business, I never had a chance to sit still. I got kids and everything. I had a couple issues in my life that made me have to sit down, unwillingly, and when I came home, I had a little paper trail. So just that time for me to be with my kids, I was missing out on a lot of things. I just enjoyed that and got comfortable in that zone."

Beanie Sigel Clarifies Jay-Z 'Apology'

Beanie Sigel is denying reports from earlier this month that he 'apologized' to his former friend Jay-Z for their longstanding feud. According to Sigel, he was just putting the situation behind him--but he never apologized. Beanie says he has nothing to apologize for.

“I never made a public apology, I talked to somebody from a magazine, and they brought that issue up," Beans said of the miscommunication. "You never hear me say ‘apology.’ What I said was, to stop that interviewer from asking me those questions, and everybody else who asked those questions,” he said. “I felt how I felt and I still feel how I feel. But, just letting it go for everybody else. Hustler’s number one rule is never lose your cool. I broke one of the hustler’s rules. Gangstas f*ck up, but at the end of the day, I still feel how the f*ck I feel.”

Beanie Sigel Apologizes To Jay-Z

Beanie Sigel has issued a public apology to mentor-turned-rival Jay-Z, following almost two years of feuding. The Philly rapper has had a change of heart regarding the man who helped launch his career, but who Sigel subsequently accused of turning his back on him.

"What Mike Epps say? 'Gangstas f**k up too,'" Beanie Sigel told XXLMag. "Whatever I felt this dude Jay did wrong to me, it can't outweigh the one thing he did do for me - he gave me an opportunity. Dude gave me an opportunity."

Beans also said he regretted releasing diss tracks aimed at Jay.

"I got caught in the moment and put my feelings out there, Beanie SigeI said. "I should have never done that."