HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Beanie Sigel is shooting down widespread claims that he's dissing Jay-Z in his new song, "What You Talkin Bout (I Ain't Your Average Cat)."
On Friday, the former Roc-A-Fella star told Philadelphia radio station 100.3 that the fiery lyrics in the track aren't necessarily directed toward his former partner, even though he felt Jay-Z certainly tossed some shots at him on his latest record.
"I'm not really dissing Jay," said Sigel, who added that he hasn't spoken with the music mogul in two years. "It's certain parts in there where my emotions. ... It's an emotional record for me. When I listened to [Jay-Z's] The Blueprint 3, I heard a lot of shots directed towards people."
"I feel he gave out a lot of pairs of shoes on that album," he added. "I felt my feet was meant for a couple of them."
On the track, Sigel raps: "How it feel to get exposed? Don't you feel naked?/ I was a fly on the wall, sh-- I witnessed/ I can say sh-- that will make B look at you different."
"I understand Jay, you at a certain place in your career where everyone can't go," Sigel explained to 103's Charlamagne Tha God. "You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that 'this crazy dude might do anything.' ... We taint his image, State Property and the place that he's at."
The Philadelphia rapper also complained that neither Jay-Z nor Dame Dash were fair when it came to paying State Property during their time on Roc-A-Fella Records.
"I love the way 50 [Cent] did with his dawgs," said Sigel. "If you look at it, them dudes got more money and more bread than anybody in State Property 'cause 50 made sure of that. 50 went on tour and paid them, not [telling] them 'it was a good look for them to be on the tour' and things like that. True story, I'm sitting on house arrest and the Young Gunz call my phone 'cause Jay-Z is only paying them $1200 a show and they had to split it."
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