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The Philadelphia native Dwight E. Grant’s earliest hip-hop excursions came in 1994 when the rapper made appearances on a number of DJ Clue!’s mixtapes. Able to nurture an image and rising career for himself, Grant subsequently appeared on Jay-Z’s “Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life” and signed with Roc-a-Fella Records. Named after a street in South Philadelphia where Grant called home, Sigel’s debut album, “The Truth”, was released in 2000. Introducing Beanie Sigel’s smart, gritty, and hard-hitting rap delivery to a national audience, the record peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and featured the likes of Jay-Z, Eve, Memphis Bleek, and Kanye West on production. Earning a host of critical acclaim the album spawned the singles “Anything”, “Remember Them Days”, and “The Truth” and catapulted Sigel to rap notoriety.
A year later the rapper released his sophomore album “The Reason” this time with guest appearances from Daz Fillinger, Freeway, and Young Chris. Whilst not earning as favourable reviews as its predecessor the record peaked once again at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, after which Sigel starred in the Dame Dash-produced movie “State Property”. The film paved the way for the group State Property to form, who produced the film’s soundtrack in 2002 and subsequently “The Chain Gang Vol. 2” in 2003.
Despite the splintering of Damon Dash and Kareem Burke away from Roc-a-Fella, Sigel’s third full-length “The B. Coming”, released on Dame Dash Music Group, still featured a host of artists from the Roc-A-Fella roster including The Neptunes and Just Blaze. The record spawned the hit single “I Feel it in the Air” and generated a spread of rave reviews. Following a year’s prison sentence for a drugs and weapons possession charge, Sigel signed with Roc-A-Fella Record again and issued his fourth studio album “The Solution” in May 2007. Featuring guest appearances from Jay-Z, Ozzy Osbourne, R. Kelly and Ghostface Killah, the record was led by the single “All the Above” and charted at No. 37 on the Billboard 200.
Two years later the full-length “The Broad Street Bully” arrived marking Sigel's first independently released album. In 2010 he released the State Property collaborative album, “The Roc Boys”, alongside rapper Freeway, which hosts features from Wale, Young Chris and the Young Gunz. The rapper subsequently issued his sixth studio album “This Time” in 2012, following which he returned to prison for a two year sentence for tax evasion.
Dwight E. Grant better known by Beanie Sigel was a former member of Dame Dash Music Group and Roc-A-Fella Records where he met rap icons such as Jay-Z and Freeway which would go onto influence both his future sound and performance style. He is one of the most self-assured artists on the circuit and despite not performing excessively, he still manages to sell out every time he rolls into town.
After selling two million albums worldwide since his career began back in the mid-90s, he has a global appeal yet stays true to his homeland by playing the majority of his shows there. Although there are no all-star collaboration appearances such as Eve or Snoop Dogg tonight, he is joined by vocalists and artists to perform collaborative tracks such as 'Think It's A Game' and 'All The Above'. The whole room goes absolutely wild for a final performance of 'Anytime' and ends the night in an aptly cool manner.
The show was horrible. The show was supposed to start at 7p, but didn't start till 8p. Freeway was nice, but then we had to wait over an hour for the next act that was Ludacris. After Luda we waited for at least another half hour for Busta to come on. He ripped the show! Then Trina came on for one freaking song and left. They were probably waiting on her to show up. We left during DMX when he was talking about loving the ppl that he hates. I was very disappointed with he show. Bring back the old school hip hop show!!!!!!!!!!