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Beanie Sigel - The Solution
| Billboard | | This Philadelphia-based MC, one of several Jay-Z protégés who have yet to attain that level of fame, describes in more detail than most rappers the criminal demimonde that gangsta rap alternately glorifies and laments. And Beanie Sigel knows what he's talking about: In addition to three previous studio discs, his résumé reflects several run-ins with the law, including a recent one-year prison sentence on a federal gun charge. Sigel's familiarity with the dark side unquestionably gives "The Solution" the air of realism gangsta rap fans prize....full text |
| | Nytimes | | When the Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel first emerged in the late 1990s some listeners might have mistaken him for a run-of-the-mill goon, one more tough-talking member of Jay-Z’s motley Roc-A-Fella crew. But beneath that surly exterior lurked a hard-core formalist, and also, maybe more surprising, a sensitive soul. His 2000 debut album, “The Truth,” included “Die,” a mesmerizing song in which he turned his vivid death threats against himself. As he reeled off a series of morbid visions — “Die on a death mission, two Tecs spittin’/No vest, section from my chest missin’” — he was careful to enunciate every echoing syllable....full text |
| | Pitchforkmedia | | The Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel recorded his last album, 2004's The B.Coming, in the weeks between being sentenced to a federal prison on a gun charge and the beginning of his term. That album was like a rap version of Spike Lee's The 25th Hour, the sound of someone who knew he was headed for hard times. In the almost four years since The B.Coming saw release, Beanie served 10 months in federal prison and was acquitted of an attempted murder charge that would've sent him away for a whole lot longer....full text |
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