Beanie Sigel

Holding down The Roc and repping hard for Philadelphia, Beanie Sigel is known for his rugged but smart crime rhymes and frequent run-ins with the law. The Reason is a solid follow-up to his debut LP, The Truth, as Beans spits felony flows atop thick production from Just Blaze and No I.D. among others. Jay-Z appears on "Think It's A Game" and "Still Got Love For You."

Beanie Sigel may be a Jay-Z protege, but as he proved on his powerful, plain-spoken 1999
debut, The Truth, he's no B-team megastar stepchild. On such tracks as The Truth's "What
Your Life Like," the Philly MC showed the grim consequences of the criminal life, a rarity in
the increasingly conscience-free world of mainstream hip-hop. Unfortunately, on The
Reason, Sigel wholeheartedly embraces the trappings of the gangster life. The al... More >