The B. Coming Turns 20

Beanie Sigel approached every bar like a 400-pound deadlift, but he never let you forget how easy it came to him. “I gotta laugh ‘cause y’all work hard at this shit/ Think about it yo, I just started this shit/ Imagine if I put my heart in this shit,” he boomed on 1999’s “Pop 4 Roc,” the latest in a series of Jay-Z album tracks where he murdered his boss on his own shit. I’ve long suspected that “compared to Beans, you wack” hit harder than the Eminem line from “Ether,�...

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