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Still Ill after more than 10 years of not blowing up as much as his mentor Jay-Z his career has definitely been a process smh.

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Beanie Sigel Talks Current Relationship With Memphis Bleek

Beanie Sigel sat down with The Source for their January/February issue to talk the obvious (Jay-Z, Dame Dash, 50 Cent and everything in between). Here’s an excerpt in regards to his relationship with the “lil homie” (Memphis Bleek).

“I mean to me right now, that’s Jay young boy, that’s his lil’ man. Me, honestly, I think Bleek is happy how things are right now. Because now he really gets to be Jay’s lil’ man and it’s evident, you can see it. It’s like he’s the last one who survived. He weathered the storm but the storm didn’t start with the breakup, the storm started when Beanie Sigel got signed to the Roc. He was coming of age when I came. [Laughs.] He’s still coming of age.

Memphis Bleek Explains Not Signing To Roc Nation

Jay’s right hand man, explains why he chose not to sign to his Roc Nation label. In this case, money isn’t a major issue.

“I coulda went to Roc Nation, but then what am I getting out of that?Another $150,000 check advance, then I come out [and] sell 300,000 probably, somebody makes two or three million, and I gotta mess with the fact that they gon’ say yo you bricked out? Like that’s the industry. And that’s [with a label run by] my homie. Now if [it's] somebody else, [they] might not even get a 150 [thousand dollar] advance, they probably go get 30. And plus I’d rather be on my own, fam. I been in the game, like you said a decade now, I know what to do; I know what not to do. It’s time for me to have my own record [label]. I got a lot of niggas behind me that’s ready to get they shot. And me being behind Jay, they ain’t gonna never get they shot.”