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JAY-Z SLAMMED BY EX-ROC-A-FELLA RAPPER FOR BETRAYING BEANIE SIGEL IN ATTEMPTED MURDER CASE

By WILL SCHUBE
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JAY-Z has been criticized by former Roc-A-Fella rapper Oschino for turning his back on Beanie Sigel in his attempted murder case in the mid 2000s.

In an interview with Say Cheese, the State Property alum aired his grievances with his former label boss for refusing to vouch for Beans during the trial.

“I came to court for Beanie when he allegedly shot somebody,” Oschino recalled. “JAY-Z got on the stand and they said, ‘Are you gonna be responsible for him if we let him go?’ JAY-Z said, ‘No.’ I was there. This ain’t hearsay; this was me in the courtroom.”

He added: “I was just thinking, ‘What did he come to court for then?’ If I got a homie and all I gotta say is, ‘I’m responsible for him for him to get out,’ I’m saying it every time […] The judge was trying to give him an out. He said, ‘No.’

“And nobody didn’t say nothing, nobody flinched. Mind you, I’m a jail n-gga so I’m looking around like, ‘Nobody not saying nothing?!’ Like it was normal […] Maybe I’m too street in my thinking and maybe he was being more responsible, but I was thinking, ‘Man, these boys is different.'”

Watch his comments at the 13:15 mark below.

Beanie Sigel was charged with attempted murder in July 2003 for allegedly firing six shots at a man during an argument outside of a Philadelphia bar. One of the bullets struck the victim in the foot and another in the stomach.

The first trial ended in a mistrial after the jury were deadlocked after five days of deliberating. It was during this trial that JAY-Z appeared on the witness stand.

The “Feel it in the Air” rapper was retried in 2005 and walked free after being acquitted of all charges.

“I think the jury flat-out didn’t believe the victim and the eyewitness,” Sigel’s lawyer Fortunato N. Perri Jr. said of the verdict. “They thought they were lying, that they put a story together, to ultimately end up in a payday for themselves.”

Beans himself addressed Hov’s actions during the trial on Drink Champs in 2021, admitting it fractured their relationship and left him feeling hurt.

“I’ve never been crushed like that ever in my life,” he said. “‘Cause I’m like, ‘Damn, this is my man’ […] That fucked me up. That took away a lot of shit that I thought we had. Like, that’s big bro.”

He also acknowledged that, in hindsight, Hov had his reasons: “I believe at that time, Jay was thinking that I was unpredictable. I was bugging. I know I was out of pocket. I was uncontrollable.”

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Will Melt Your Heart With His Acoustic Taylor Swift ‘Lover’ Cover in Honor of Wife’s Birthday

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By Gil Kaufman
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt knows that sometimes a card just won’t do. Which is why the Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F star and music lover took a moment during his visit to The Tonight Show on Wednesday night (June 19) to pull out an acoustic guitar and offer his absent wife a very special tribute.

“Today is actually my wife’s birthday,” the actor told Jimmy Fallon. “I’m so sad because she’s not here in New York with me. I’m here working and she’s back home. I feel so terrible. I texted Jimmy and I said, ‘Can I give her a special birthday present on the show?’” The host then obliged by pulling an instrument out from behind his desk.

“We’re here to make dreams come true,” Fallon said in granting Levitt’s wish to give a musical shout-out to wife Tasha McCauley. “This is a song by a singer-songwriter she really, really loves that you all might know,” Gordon-Levitt said, before adding, “Babe, you’re the most luminous soul I’ve ever met. I’m so grateful you were born and I’m coming home soon. Love you.”

Levitt then performed a sweet unplugged cover of Taylor Swift‘s “Lover,” with Fallon joining in on the chorus and drumming on his desk as JGL strummed his heart out with a giant smile on his face. Gordon-Levitt and McCauley were married in December 2014 and have two sons.

Gordon-Levitt, 43, of course, also talked about what a joy it is to appear in the new reboot of one of his most beloved childhood franchises, telling Fallon he has long made playlists for each of his movie characters to get into their headspace. For his latest, though, the only song on that list was, of course, Harold Faltermeyer’s iconic 1984 instrumental theme, “Axel F,” which the Roots played as Gordon-Levitt’s entrance music and reprised later in the interview as the star jumped up to dance to the synth classic.

Watch Gordon-Levitt on the Tonight Show below.

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