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Beanie Sigel Rips Pharrell and Kanye West
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 By: Michael Ivey
Roc-A-Fella Records emcee Beanie Sigel in a segment ofQuincy Jones III's new documentary Beef IV derides producer/rappers Pharrell Williams and Kanye West for promoting what Sigel views as implicitly homosexual imagery.
"Look who everybody wanna be like Kanye and Pharrell,"Sigel complains. "Them dudes is not cool; that's not cool to be in the hood. They whole image, who would wanna be that? You wearing Lui Vuitton driving shoes, who dresses like that?"
The Philadelphia native, whose first single for Roc-A-Fella ('The Truth, (2000)') was produced by West, pinpoints West's attire for the 2006 Grammy Awards, where he won three, as the most egregious offense.
"Who does that-silk shirts with the buttons,with the chest hairs out and all that. Who does that? [It's] like they trying too hard,that's not cool to be." Sigel goes on to imply that someone walking through his native South Philadelphia neighborhood dressed in such a manner might be attacked; "you liable to get something happen to you-yeah. You might as well come all the way out the closet homeboy."
Sigel, also known as "The Broad Street Bully," has made the news more for alleged and actual violence than music in recent years. He was in 2005 acquitted of attempted murder but convicted of misdemeanor simple assault in early 2006. Last Spring Sigel was shot and robbed in his native South Philadelphia. However, Philadelphia police were skeptical of Sigel's account of the events because there were no shell casings found at the scene and no witnesses were identified. Sigel's stepfather Sam Derry was murdered in Philadelphia a month after his 2005 acquittal.
The emcee recently reunited with Roc-A-Fella Records after months of taking a neutral stance in the Jay-Z/Dame Dash dispute, which resulted in Dash and Kareem "Biggs" Burke leaving the company they helped found.
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