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!
