Beanie Sigel has supported Dame Dash‘s claim that JAY-Z secretly wrote some of Memphis Bleek‘s lyrics.
Speaking to The Art of Dialogue, the former Roc-A-Fella rapper added credence to Dash’s recent claim that Hov used to lend his pen to his former protégé.
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After being played a clip of Dame’s comments, Beans replied: “Did he write for Bleek? Yeah, man, of course. To help Bleek out on a lot of shit. I mean, you can hear it.”
He then recited Bleek’s verse from the Dynasty: Roc La Familia track “You, Me, Him and Her” and said: “Just pay attention. He always cheated for Bleek. He had to cheat for Bleek, especially if us three was on a record together.
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“Because if I ain’t there with Jay or too far behind him… come on, man. Bleek wouldn’t have stood a chance. That’s my brother. Bleek know.”
The Broad Street Bully went on to correct Dame’s claim and clarify that JAY-Z didn’t write all of Bleek’s rhymes.
“That’s a lie. He ain’t write all of Bleek’s shit,” Sigel added. “He wrote enough, though. Especially with records where it was me, Jay and Bleek. He had to keep up. Did I actually witness it? No. But you knew. I knew.”
Dame Dash dropped the bombshell during his own interview with The Art of Dialogue in December.
“I don’t think Bleek wanted to take over [Roc-A-Fella]. I don’t think he had the ability to,” he said. “Jay was writing a lot of his rhymes. So if Jay retired, that meant he was out of business as well.”
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He added: “Ask Bleek about it. I can understand Bleek’s loyalty to Jay because he had Jay as a ghostwriter.”
The Harlem-bred mogul later said: “I probably shouldn’t have said that but he’s been talking about me lately. I didn’t think it was a secret. I thought everybody knew.”
Bleek caught wind of Dash’s comments and fired back on X (formerly Twitter), writing: “He wilding right now bro [crying face emojis].”
Directly addressing his former label boss’ ghostwriting claim, the Brooklyn rapper said: “I wish maybe I [would] still be lit [fire emoji].”
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He further denied the allegation by saying: “And people said I was whack [thinking face emoji] so if Jay wrote for me he whack [too] [crying face emojis].”
JAY-Z himself has yet to comment on the controversy.
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Dash later claimed that he and Bleek had hashed out their issues, saying: “N.O.R.E. put Bleek on the phone and something happened that I really liked. We talked like brothers. At the end of the day we worked it out.”
However, Bleek cast doubt on this by replying with a number of thinking face emojis on social media.