Jay-Z Blocks Beanie Sigel From Signing Deal With 50 Cent’s G-Unit Records
Beanie Sigel’s latest MP3, “What You Talkin Bout (I Ain’t Your Average Cat),” addresses Jay-Z the businessman. One of the allegations Sigel makes throughout the song was recently confirmed by G-Unit General, 50 Cent. According to 50 Cent, he made Beanie Sigel an offer to bring him from Roc-A-Fella to G-Unit. The deal was reportedly worth $800,000. However, Jay-Z did not want to see Sigel leave the Roc-A-Fella label and join up with the competition. This whole story is ironic considering Jay-Z’s declared that “nobody is afraid of 50 Cent.” Also, notice how the Beanie Sigel vs Jay-Z controversy is occuring during the lead-up to 50 Cent’s album release for Before I Self Destruct? Suddenly 50 Cent, hip hop’s favorite bad guy, is the good-guy in the situation based on the now-public details of how well 50 Cent treats his G-Unit family.
“I love the way 50 [Cent] did with his dawgs,” he said. “If you look at it, them dudes got more money and more bread than anybody in State Property ’cause 50 made sure of that. 50 went on tour and paid them, not [telling] them ‘it was a good look for them to be on the tour’ and things like that. True story, I’m sitting on house arrest and the Young Gunz call my phone ’cause Jay-Z is only paying them $1200 a show and they had to split it.” ©Beanie Sigel [Source: MTV]
50 Cent confirmed Sigel’s allegations on “Average Cat” that he almost signed the Philadelphia-bred rapper to his G-Unit Records, which at one point, was to jointly market a project by former Roc-A-Fella artist Freeway. “He [Beanie Sigel] would have got at least $800,000 at that point to come over,” 50 Cent told Miss Jones. “Jay was telling him that he didn’t want to lose him. I think Jay and Puffy had these feelings toward me at one point I believe.” During an interview with Charlamagne Tha God, Beanie Sigel revealed that he was close to signing a deal with G-Unit, but the deal was blocked by Jay-Z. 50 Cent confirmed this and also stated that he ran into the same issues when he attempted to bring estranged Bad Boy artist Mase into the G-Unit fold. “They didn’t want to lose anything to me, while their energy was going on. Puff didn’t want to sign the Mase deal and Jay didn’t want to do that,” 50 Cent told Miss Jones today (November 3). [Source: AllHipHop]
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