Beanie Sigel’s voice changed because he suffered serious lung and throat injuries after being shot in 2014, which damaged his vocal cords and left him with a raspier, weaker tone. During his recovery, he was in a coma with a breathing tube, and he has explained that pulling the tube out on his own tore tissue in his throat, further affecting his voice.
Injury and vocal damage
In the 2014 incident, he was shot in the back and the bullets exited through his stomach, causing a collapsed lung and long-term breathing issues. The combination of the gunshot trauma and the damage from the breathing tube led to permanent changes in his vocal cords and made it hard for him to speak and project his voice for months.
Current approach with music
Because his “old” voice never fully returned, he has talked about using artificial intelligence to recreate the sound of his pre-injury voice on new music, feeding his current recordings into AI models trained on his classic vocals. He has stressed that the lyrics and creativity are still his, but the technology helps give fans the familiar Beanie Sigel tone from before the shooting.
