The radio personality who interviewed Beanie Sigel hours after he released his controversial “diss” record aimed at Jay-Z has been fired.

Charlamagne tha God, the morning show host of 100.3FM The Beat in Philadelphia has been relieved of his duties, according to an announcement Charlemagne made on his Twitter on Monday.

“Don’t believe the hype. This is not a publicity stunt. They fired me this(Monday) morning,” Charlamagne tweeted.

Many Hip-Hop insiders believe the firing was a direct result of Charlamagne giving Beanie Sigel an audience to discuss his Jay-Z diss record “Average Cats.”

Charlamagne said the firing is just “the nature of the business.“

One of Jay-Z’s former Roc-A-Fella artists lets loose on his feelings about the demise of a musical dynasty.

Beanie Sigel (Dwight Grant) released “Average Cats” early Friday morning (Oct 30) in which he accuses Jay-Z of calling the police on him during the premier concert of Blueprint 3.

He also accuses Jay-Z of keeping him tied to the label when Sigel had an opportunity to go elsewhere.

AllHipHop.com

According to Sigel, Jay offered him a financial incentive to remain on the struggling label’s roster. “I told you I ain’t want your money,” he said addressing Jay-Z directly.

“But you was in a position to let me get my own money, and you couldn’t do that,” Sigel claimed.

Whatever issues remain between the two artists, who have always appeared to be very close, Sigel has made it clear that they can be resolved.

The diss record was released hours after Jay-Z and Alicia Keys performed at Yankee Stadium.

Jay-Z has yet to respond.

It looks like “America’s Pastime” will share the same stage with America’s favorite rapper.

Jay’z and Alicia Keys will perform their hit single “Empire State of Mind” at Yankee Stadium in New York this Wednesday to kick off the 2009 World Series.

The song has been adopted by the New York Yankees who will play defending World Series champions, the Philadelphia Phillies in the best four out of seven series.

“Thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee,” Jay-Z said in an interview Monday.

I wonder if Will Smith will perform when the series goes to Philadelphia??????

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A quick visit to Roc4Life.com Jigga’s online base for all things Roc-a, won’t immediately lead you to the candy, but I’ve got your direct link here to the D.O.A. video tricked out with a lot of Klickable action. This experiment seems to indicate that a more in depth strategy is on the horizon for the Roc4Life site. Read the rest of this entry »

Rapper “hit the roof” over Rihanna assault. The musical mentor to singer Rihanna has called singer Chris Brown “a walking dead man,” according to US Weekly. “He messed with the wrong crew,” Jay-Z is reported to have said after word on Brown’s alleged violence against Rihanna this week. If a Facebook entry is authentic, Brown may have added fuel to the fire: Brown’s Facebook quote read, “You’ll begin to see her true colors. Believe it!” But questions were raised Friday about whether Brown actually wrote the words. California authorities may charge the star, who turned himself in, with one or more felonies after Rihanna was reportedly given “horrific” injuries to her face on Sunday. Jay-Z discovered the sexy 20-year-old award-winner when she was a teenager. Actor Terrence Howard apologized after telling Hollywood TV that Rihanna knows Brown “loves her.” “When they asked me about Chris Brown the other day,” read a statement from Howard, “I was in no way aware of what he had been accused of. Had I known, I would have never said something so insensitive.”

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