What’s a hip-hop occurrence without two cents from 50 Cent? Earlier this morning (November 3), Fiddy stopped by the Miss Jones’ Morning Show on Philadelphia’s Power 99FM to offer some insight on the current public quarrel between former labelmates Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel.
G-Unit’s head-honcho wasted no time in picking apart the debate and even solidifying some of Sigel’s claims that Beans was preparing to switch teams and become a G-Unit solider, a move that Jay-Z would not allow. “He [Beanie Sigel] would have got at least $800,000 at that point to come over,” 50 Cent revealed to Miss Jones. He continued, “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.”
50 says that Diddy even halted signing papers when rapper turned pastor, Mase commenced his short stint with the G-Unit establishment a couple years ago. “They didn’t want to lose anything to me, while their energy was going on,” explained Fif. “Puff didn’t want to sign the Mase deal and Jay didn’t want to [let Beans go]."
As previously reported, Beanie Sigel released a scathing open letter to Jay-Z entitled, “(Not Your) Average Cat," airing out an array of issues ranging from financial mismanagement to lack of promotion during his stretch on Roc-A-Fella Records.
Beans offered more insight to the aforementioned during an extensive interview with radio personality, Charlemagne Tha God last Friday (October 30) explaining the track wasn’t in fact a diss record, but rather a “real record." And since sitting down with Jay-Z face to face seems to be a lost cause for Beans, publicly speaking to him was his only option.
During a later interview after a club performance this past weekend, Sigel assured the hip-hop community that if President Carter fires back on wax before any other type of response, he will be forced to release more records aimed at Jay.