‘Feel It in the Air’ Beanie Sigel (2005) “Feel It in the Air” dropped January 18, 2005, as the third single off Beanie Sigel’s third studio album The B. Coming on Roc-A-Fella Records. Produced by the late Heavy D, the track flips a haunting saxophone sample from Raphael Ravenscroft’s “Whole Lotta Something Goin’ On” into one of the most cinematic beats in early 2000s East Coast hip hop history. Lyrically, Sigel delivers one of the most introspective rap verses of his career — bars about impending jail time, paranoia, and street life that hit different when you know the context behind them. Singer MJ Songstress adds a soulful, gospel-tinged vocal layer that pushes this beyond a typical rap record and into classic R&B rap crossover territory. Decades later the beat is still being freestyled over by artists like Lil Yachty, YTB Fatt, and Finesse2tymes, proving that timeless underground hip hop production never dies. Beanie Sigel remains one of the most slept on lyricists out of Philadel...