Video: Jay-Z Responds To Beans In Montreal Canada

Jay-Z answers Beanie Sigel from la rue du hiphop on Vimeo.

Well, as I expected the response was swift, but very tempered. You can tell even though Beans has thrown some major dirt Jay's way, Jigga still respects him a great deal. That said, he did a good job of pointing out to that journalist just how much he did open the door for Beans to make moves...

Accountability can be a bitch sometimes. When things fall apart and they always do, I feel like we, as humans, absolutely need to be able to have something or someone to blame.

At the end of the day Sigel had his shot, his run, his whatever you wanna call it and really, musically I'd say he did a hell of a job. Hands down, one of the best from the city of brotherly love to ever drop science on a mic, no question. Considering that puts him in the company of people like Black Thought, Steady B, The Last Emperor, Mr. Pinkett and Bahamadia you'd think his career (which isn't over by a long shot BTW) would be enough for him to hang his hat on. I mean he didn't exactly go broke doing any of this. Beans was always holdin a lil' somethin' monetarily and yeah, he lived that dream; was all up on the TV screen, made movies, went on tours, partook in the groupies and fine weed, all that and it still wasn't enough?? Oh, and wasn't that Jay there supporting a certain defendant during his attempted murder trial all the way up to the acquittal?

Alas, another huge portion of the human condition is ego. It makes us all hold on past our primes, act out foolishly and yes, even sometimes turn our back on people we love. Beanie, by no means is wrong for expressing some regrets about maybe not having certain things go down for him in his career, but the reason for those things not happenin' ain't cause' of Sean Carter.

The man in the mirror Beans, the man in the mirror....

-BIG D O