After being both shot in 2006, as well as previously arrested on assault charges, South Philadelphia’s Beanie Sigel has proven himself to be no stranger to crime or violence. However, the same rapper who says he’s reformed over the last few years in this month’s The Source magazine, is doing his part to minimize crime and violence in his own backyard.
With Philadelphia reaching a staggering 375 murders so far
this year, Beans is making moves to
urge the youth to “exercise their mind, not their trigger finger” in a new public service announcement he has done with local Philadelphia TV station, Fox 29.
“There’s a black cloud
over our city,” Beanie begins in the anti-violence PSA; in which he talks
to Fox 29 about. “It’s just a message
that’s directed towards the youth and for the youth. It gotta come from somebody
that they not only respect but they know that been through what they going
through.”
Why should the youth listen to someone who has had such a
violent past as Beanie Sigel has?
“I got the scars, you know what I mean. I got
the wounds. I know. Why should they listen to me? Who else they gon’ listen to?”
Sigel answers. “I’ve been on both sides
of the fence and the road that they traveling to is gonna come to an end. You’ll
lose your life in two ways, by death or just in jail.”
Beanie Sigel wraps up the interview by simply stating “The message is simple, just make smart
choices. Better choices.”
The 32 year old rapper released his fourth solo album The Solution almost two weeks ago.
