Beanie Sigel has revealed that he’s forgiven the man who shot and nearly killed him a decade ago.
In 2014, the Philadelphia rapper was shot twice in the back and as a result was left in a coma.
Reflecting on the shooting during an interview on Sway In the Morning, Beanie was asked if he could forgive his shooter.
He replied: “You have to. When you understand, you have to. How can you not forgive if you want forgiveness? ‘Cause there’s gonna be a time where everybody gon’ need forgiveness.
“When you cross all the way over and you ain’t here no more, you gon’ need forgiveness from [God] or can’t nobody gon’ forgive you.”
When asked if forgiving his shooter brings him a sense of freedom and peace, Beans answered: “I’m not gonna say that feeling goes away, but it just makes you more conscious of certain decisions.
“For me, what it did was, it lifted the burden off of me from knowing things that I’ve done in my life. It lifted a little bit of that off of me.”
Watch his comments at the 49:00 mark below.
Nobody was ever arrested for the drive-by shooting of Sigel, though it is not believed the rapper was the intended victim as he had just taken his children to school.
The incident came shortly after Beanie was released from prison after he served time for tax and drug charges.
The former Roc-A-Fella signee previously detailed the shooting and what it did to his body in graphic detail.
“I got shot in my back,” he said in an interview with VladTV last year. “I got shot twice in my back. It came out my stomach.
“My vocals came out of — I was in a coma. So when I was coming out of it — I had a breathing tube down my throat. So when I first woke up out the coma, I didn’t know where I was at.
“And I pulled the breathing tube out. So it tore up shit in my throat. And I had staples in my stomach. So when I was yanking — I couldn’t get it out. It made me gag and I bust all the staples in my stomach. It just opened up.”
Beanie also clarified that the long-standing rumor about him losing a lung in the shooting was false. “It collapsed,” he said, while pointing out that he “lost a piece” of his lung.
At the time, officers investigating put the shooting down to an argument between two different parties.
Pleasantville Police Chief Jose Ruiz said: “Apparently, there was a struggle of some type, which led to Mr. Grant [Beanie Sigel] being shot and that is all we have at this point.”
