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RS: 2.5of 5 Stars Average User Rating: 5of 5 Stars

2001

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Beanie Sigel may be a Jay-Z protege, but as he proved on his powerful, plain-spoken 1999 debut, The Truth, he's no B-team megastar stepchild. On such tracks as The Truth's "What Your Life Like," the Philly MC showed the grim consequences of the criminal life, a rarity in the increasingly conscience-free world of mainstream hip-hop. Unfortunately, on The Reason, Sigel wholeheartedly embraces the trappings of the gangster life. The album is a relentlessly dull breakdown of the G-Code: All the usual fodder is here, from smoking pot ("I Don't Do Much") to baiting women and dealing coke ("Beanie [Mack B****]") to bullying enemies ("Think It's a Game"). Only the album's opener, "Nothing Like It," where Sigel admits he fears the kind of world his son will inherit, has the humanity and the up-from-the-streets passion of his debut. But for the most part, on The Reason, Sigel's more interested in a false gangster's paradise than the truth.

ETHAN BROWN
(RS 873 - July 19, 2001)



(Posted: Jun 25, 2001)

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