Hova/Beans Beef Boils Over

According to fellow Philly native, former lightweight and middleweight boxing champion Bernard Hopkins, the reports that Jay-Z had Beanie Sigel removed from a concert have been confirmed by the pugilist, whose plans to fight Roy Jones are still in the works.

Hopkins stated that, Jay-Z had dozens of cops and dogs on hand to harrass Sigel and remove Sigel from an October Powerhouse concert in Philadelphia. Hopkins went on to say, “He had K9’s smelling, they said everybody had to move to the side to escort Beans out,” Onlookers were shocked that Sigel was escorted out of the show, and the performance shut down.

DJ Eric B. of "Eric B. & Rakim" fame came to Jay's defense saying that it was his management team that shut the entire thing down. The managament shut it down, and overreacted to Sigel's appearance.

Hopkins says that it's much deeper than just them removing Sigel. It seemed to him that they were focusing on one person, and that person just happened to be Sigel. He went on to say that what Beans is saying on the radio has been taken out of contect, because he is just speaking on people not keeping it real with him.

Do we have to continue to see stuff like this in Hip Hop spiral out of control because of a misunderstanding, or another young artist being signed to a major label early in his career, and not taking care of his/her business?

Sigel has lashed out with several diss songs over the past month: “Average Cat,” “How I Could Kill Jigga Man,” and “Think Big”, in response to what he feels were shots from Jay-Z's Blueprint 3.

Jay-Z’s kind of touched on the entire situation at the American Music Awards with his slanted “Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t” phrase. that some think may be a
covert reference to 50 Cent’s rumored subpar 1st week numbers for Before I Self-Destruct.


I think both need to sit down without all the antagonizers and work this out before it jumps to something else, blown out of control by the media.