Beanie Sigel Q+A

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Have you ever decided not to go with a song or line in a verse because it was too personal?
NEVER too personal. I never take no personal stuff off. That’s music to me, man. That’s what music is supposed to be. You expressing yourself. That’s the best music to me, when it come from here? From the heart? Then it’s natural, it’s something you can relate to. Everybody gotta go through the same trials and tribulations all over so if you got something that’s coming from your heart, there’s somebody somewhere that knows what you're talking about. That’s music to me. That’s relevant. Right now? Ain’t no substance to the music. It’s basically a beat and somebody goin in the booth, just playing around. And ain’t real music where you can sit down and vibe off it, or say “I been through that,” or quote something out of it.

If it was up to me I would make records like “Feel It In The Air,” “Bravery,” “Nothing Like It,” I would make them records all day. But everybody ain’t gonna get it, so I gotta make the “Roc Tha Mic”s and the “Mac Bitches” to draw ’em in. And then when they get the album they can catch them real songs. Because them other songs? They be cool but there ain’t no relevance to them for real for real. For real! Most people won’t even say that! “Roc Tha Mic” was a big record, but where’s the relevance to it? Where’s the substance? There ain’t no relevance to it but going in the club and partying. I got other records that I want you to catch, and if I gotta use that as bait to bring you in so that you hear some real music, then I gotta do that. Yeah.
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