Kanye West’s appearance on Drink Champs is still a topic of conversation weeks later. Aside from addressing his beef with Drake, impending divorce from Kim Kardashian and a bevy of other topics, he gave Beanie Sigel credit for coining the name “Yeezy” and admitted he’d been trying to pay Sigel for his contribution to the Yeezy brand.
Sigel later revealed Kanye once promised him $50 million for coming up with the nickname, saying, “I got a phone call from the muthafucka the other day. He said Sig gon’ get $50 million and a five percent stock in Yeezy. And I don’t know if n-ggas know, Yeezy’s did $1.7 billion last year.”
Now, it looks like Kanye West might’ve finally paid up. On Monday (November 29), photos of Beanie Sigel and Freeway spreading a large stack of $100 bills on their arms hit the internet. Just days earlier, Sigel jokingly said he’s available for “nickname consultation” for a cool $100,000.
Despite Beanie Sigel’s blatant display of wealth, he told TMZ last week he didn’t care about the money.
“I did name him that but as far as his business mind and where he took it, Kanye worked hard for this,” he said. “Kanye don’t owe me nothing. I don’t know if I would take a number. Because you give somebody a fish today, he gon’ eat for the day. If you teach somebody how to fish, he’s gon’ eat forever. He’s gon’ teach his family how to fish.
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“I’m not even thinking about a number, but I would love to do some business where I can earn some money ’cause I’m an earner. I never was the type to take just for a handout. My mind is sorta like Kanye’s mind … I think outside the box. I’ve got a lot of business ventures that I think if me and Kanye were to sit down and I had that opportunity to present it to him, it’s some money on the table that I can earn.”
JAY-Z was initially credited with shortening “Kanyeezy” to “Yeezy” in an intro to a 2003 song. Kanye then used the name on the 2007 album Graduation. He eventually named his adidas collaboration Yeezy in 2015.
I dont know how business savvy Beans is but as far as rap goes. Dude is one of the greats. Definetly got a bunch of classics (yes, classics) songs, verses etc. to his name. And he found Freeway.
Classics? Bwahahahahaha. You must live in what ever shitty ass hid this wash up is from. Rock the mic right? Bwahahahahaha. Hilarious. This is a very obscure big for stand up that you’re working on.
The B. Coming is very close to a classic. His most complete and versatile album, it’s HEAVILY slept on…
Yeah. The B. Coming is a great piece of work. I still listen to that album every now and then.
To name some. Feel it in the Air, Change and Look At Me Now are classics. And thats just off one of his albums. His verses on Where Have You Been and This Cant Be Life are classics. Even his bullshit album The Solution which is not a classic by any means, not even close, but its still better than 90% of the shits out these days.
U a wack 12 year old jelly ass listening to garbage ass playboi carti fruit cake….
You stupid?? Beanie Sigel was really considered a top tier rapper. You obviously don’t know anything about this rap shit. And the washed up hole he’s from is Philadelphia you clown! You’re trying to make fun of what dude said but you really showed how little you know. Wow, you’re lost for real.
Kanye seems to be turning the corner from the wack shit he was doing. Props to him for paying dues. Respect
IM very hurt you own me 900.9 trillion its real
Looks like beans is going to make smart decisions with that money
Beanie Sigel is not smart. All the wolves will be on him for that money! I hope he’s not broke again in a few years.
I bet Kanye ain’t give him a dime
just gave him a dime and a bunch of nickles don’t lie and slander you now own me 900.9 trillion usd
This motherfucker is almost 50 years old and has already been shot a couple times. Stop flexing money on socials dumb dumb.
As usual wack ass internet bitches watching somebody else pockets! Y’all LAME AS FUQ!!!