Memphis Bleek & Beanie Sigel Were Supposed To Make A Joint Album

Memphis Bleek has revealed that he and Beanie Sigel were once supposed to make a joint album but instead blew the budget.

Speaking on his new show ROC Solid, Bleek detailed how he and his Roc-A-Fella cohort were flown down to Miami to record the project.

He said: “Me and Beans were supposed to do an album. They flew us to Miami — me, I didn’t bring none of my artists with me, but Beans said, ‘I’m bringin’ Freeway with me.’ Because Free didn’t have a budget, he didn’t have nothing.

“We bullshittin’ in the studio, we get back to New York, Jay like, ‘Yo, what did ya do?’ So, me and Beans lookin like, ‘We ain’t got nothin’.’ So, he like, ‘Yo, ya blew $300,000 just in the studio? What ya do?’ [Young] Guru was like, ‘But Freeway got some records.’ And my n-gga, Free, you came with the two monster records, bro.”

Bleek was recently forced to defend claims from Dame Dash that JAY-Z worked as a ghostwriter for him.

Speaking to The Art of Dialogue, Dash criticized Bleek’s work ethic and alleged that Hov had to step up and pen some tracks for him.

“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.”

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].”

Addressing his former label boss’ ghostwriting claim, the Brooklyn rapper said: “I wish maybe I [would] still be lit [fire emoji].”

He added: “And people said I was whack [thinking face emoji] so if Jay wrote for me he whack [too] [crying face emojis].”