In 2009 Beanie Sigel leaves Roc-A-Fella again and returns to being an independent artist, continuing to struggle with the law and releasing his fifth album with Siccness Records, who labels it a sort of mixtape and distributes it for free. There are no production credits and guests come from State Property, Freeway, Omillio Sparks and Young Chris, as well as Murda Mill. The project is made with discarded tracks from sessions for other albums. Beans rap doesn't work on these cheap beats and he sounds flat in these forty minutes, reciting braggadocio, funny, light-hearted texts and close to street, violence and gangster themes. The tracks are generic and they're saying nothing, everything is normal, the record doesn't sound well, "All for It" steals from The Queen but nobody seems to really care. The product retains some pleasant choices in the final section, coinciding with the arrival of the only production credits. "You Over Did" has a nice demi-mafia mood that is watered down as the seconds go by in a still pleasant jazz noir production, while the last track of this dirty dozen, "The Ghetto", it's also the finest, a rare solo by Beanie Sigel over a dark claustrophobic jazzy boom bap beat, nice carpet carved by Buckwild. The product also has a remarkable sales result for being hardly legitimate, entering the top ten of the independent records chart and reaching the fifth place among the rap releases. It doesn't express the true talent of the artist, fans can avoid that and focus on the emcee's previous releases, like "The B. Coming".
Rating: 5.5/10.
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