Beanie Sigel: Bad Guy Gone Good?
I couldn’t believe it when I saw this today: Beanie Sigel, alongside Philadelphia activist and social critic Bill Cosby, marching in North Philly to raise awareness of the city’s ridiculous and surreal crime rate. If anyone can talk to these kids’ areas like this, where the rate of gun crime stands out in comparison to other parts in the city, it’s Beans. But if you look at the “character” that Sigel was — well, it’s hard not to call someone a hypocrite when you see one.
Come on, have you seen State Property? Released in 2002, it starred Sigel as the leader of the ABM, a group destined to take over the streets of Philly. It’s easy to forget the overused storyline, but the movie stands out for how violent it was: Someone was shot every five minutes, Sigel’s girl was kidnapped, and all the while he tries to balance a family life and a street life. It’s not Menace II Society violent, but it’s pretty damn close.
I couldn’t believe it when I saw this today: Beanie Sigel, alongside Philadelphia activist and social critic Bill Cosby, marching in North Philly to raise awareness of the city’s ridiculous and surreal crime rate. If anyone can talk to these kids’ areas like this, where the rate of gun crime stands out in comparison to other parts in the city, it’s Beans. But if you look at the “character” that Sigel was — well, it’s hard not to call someone a hypocrite when you see one.
Come on, have you seen State Property? Released in 2002, it starred Sigel as the leader of the ABM, a group destined to take over the streets of Philly. It’s easy to forget the overused storyline, but the movie stands out for how violent it was: Someone was shot every five minutes, Sigel’s girl was kidnapped, and all the while he tries to balance a family life and a street life. It’s not Menace II Society violent, but it’s pretty damn close.
