N.O.R.E. and Beanie Sigel were some of the best MCs in the late-90s and early 2000s. Their ironclad bars and unwavering grit helped defined an era in Hip Hop that’s still felt to this day, and they may be turning back the clock to capture those vibes again.
On Tuesday (June 30), N.O.R.E. called The Breakfast Club to discuss going head-to-head with Beanie Sigel in a potential Verzuz matchup. Although N.O.R.E. gave Beans his credit, the Queens rapper doesn’t think the Broad Street Bully could hold his own in a battle.
“I know what Beans is thinking, he thinking he’s the better lyricist, and guess what Beans, I tip my hat off to you every day,” N.O.R.E. said on the call. “But this isn’t about lyricism. This is about hit for hits. If we go in the club, I have never had a show with Beanie Sigel where I opened up. Beanie Sigel has always been my opener.”
The Breakfast Club crew were shocked to hear N.O.R.E.’s bold statement to the point Charlamagne told him he was disrespectful towards the Philly legend. But N.O.R.E. continued to flex his lyrical prowess explaining how he demolished Beanie’s Roc-A-Fella labelmate, Memphis Bleek, back in the day too.
“Dame Dash and Memphis Bleek had the biggest argument in the world on a private plane coming from London because I washed Memphis Bleek on stage,” N.O.R.E. added.
The “Super Thug” rapper made it a point to say he’s joking with his peer but reiterated that there’s no competition between the two. He also said he has to give Beans a lesson for dissing JAY-Z in the mid-2000s.
“If you want to compare us on paper, it’s no match,” N.O.R.E. said. “Let me just be clear, everything I’ve said about Beanie Sigel, I’m joking about Beanie Sigel. I’m trying to be funny, but at the end of the day, I want to teach him a lesson that loyalty is better than anything. A lot of people still don’t forgive Beans for dissing the god of Hip Hop, let’s just be clear.”
N.O.R.E. got this conversation started when he shared an Instagram photo capturing him and Hov laughing on a FaceTime call. According to N.O.R.E., JAY-Z is on his side if the Verzuz goes down, which drew a response from Beanie Sigel in the post’s comment section saying he’s down for a battle.
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He even had some fun at N.O.R.E.’s expense by reposting the Queens rapper’s FaceTime with JAY-Z. Instead of siding with N.O.R.E., Beans said Hov is telling him he’s walking into a fight he doesn’t want.
“Is it me or do it look like Jay telling @therealnoreaga. ‘You know you done fucked up right?’,” Sigel wrote in the caption. “You said you brought the beer …. You know you done fucked up right!!!!”
Lay off the stuff Nore, it’s turning your brain to mush
Try reading the article.
I did. That “it’s no match” line is bullshit. If you believe that, you’re on coke too.
“Everything I said about Beanie is jokes…” as in he was just bullshitting around.
The weed and liquor is getting to your head NORE…
Hard to pick a more mediocre OG than NORE
Nore…..stop it
Can’t even think of 20 NORE songs, let alone hits… remember that CNN – “Y’all Don’t Wanna” banger though!!
Superthug comes to mind.
I know Nore is a og and everything but he always been lyrically weak to me. Beanies catalog shits all over most of anything Nore ever done. No disrespect either, I’m a CNN fan
Some of y’all must be REAL young. Of course Beans is levels above NORE lyrically. He admits that. But actual hits that move the crowd when they come on? Nore is right. Beans will have to rely a lot on his Jay-Z and Roc-a-Fella clique collaborations. He don’t got no solo joints that really move the crowd like that. Beans got a WHOLE LOT of lyrical masterpieces. Not to many recognizable hits in a Verzuz situation.
That’s what they said about Kiss vs Fab before their versus. But when it actually happened, Kiss murdered him. It’s a combination of things. NORE got more hits, but Beans is just overall better.
This has to be a joke nore would get washed easily Foh clown
Beans all day.. Beans is one of the illest Philly MCs ever. Nore has him longevity. But Beans was higher on everybody list in his prime. Compared to Beans you whack. Beans was closer at time to The Nas, Jay Z and DMXs then Nore ever was.
How was NORE one of the best emcees?? In what fuckin parallel universe does the editor live in? Seriously, i never knew he was considered like a real mc at all tbh
I can feel it in the air!
Here is the hook to one of nores songs: what, what, what, what, what, what, what. What, what, what, what, what, what, what. what, what, what, what, what, what, what. What, what, what, what, what, what, what.
Nore, gtfo here with that bull shit
Poor NORE, he is going to get destroyed
Beans had the bars, but NORE had the hits. Aside from his features, not many brand songs received radio play, but make no mistake, beans is ill
Facts on facts
But when is Beanie Siegel going to respond to Steven Siegel’s Verzuz challenge?
Beans should’ve been on some ” u ain’t on my level…give me a Scarface or somebody” N.O.R.E. always been my dude but ofcourse u gonna have more “hits” u went POP after ur 1st solo joint…LOL…hits vs real shit
(Why Beans??? Why not Cam????)
Loyalty?? All the times nore split from capone and dissed him and tragedy? Foh
Beans would wash NORE lyrically and is the better lyricist…in a Verzuz battle NORE absolutely kills Beans and its not even close yall need to stay on topic and stop suckin the man’s four-nine-three-eleven