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I'm a little late on Cam'ron, I liked his verse on Kanye's Gone and I remember liking Hey Ma and Oh Boy when they were on the radio both of which featured Cam'ron's Dipset partner Juelz Santana. But over the last few weeks I've really become interested in Cam and his crew.
It started by watching a bunch of Nimrod style youtube clips clowning on Dipset click here to see what I mean.
And I was like, ha, that's kind of funny, but surely he dosn't really rap like that. So I started looking around for some of his songs and sure enough in some of them he will rap the same word over and over and over, with no sense of urgency whatsoever. Just kinda laid back slow.
Here are some of his lyrics from Get Em Girl.
I rock mostly dosey, I roll mostly dololy
I'll leave you wholy, holy, you'll say "Holy Moly"
Here come the coroner get 'em, play "Rolly Poley"
Some more classic Cam lyrics
me who? please boo. landin' in that G2,
same color as beef stew, favorite letters :GQ.
that's me, true. peace blue, hebrew
Ok, I haven't heard that second song, but despite the silly wordplay Get Em Girl is really hot. I've been downloading a lot of stuff from his album Purple Haze and most of that stuff is really fun with some great beats, and again the wordplay just kinda works for Cam.
I checked out some of his Diplomats partners, Jim Jones single We Fly High is kinda catchy, and Juelz Whistle song is really good. Juelz is a much better rapper than Jones.
His use of samples also gets me smiling. We Built This City on Rock n Roll, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Magnum PI Theme and The Hill Street Blues theme among others, and they all seem to work and are fun, where in a puff song they'd seem corny.
He also got a lot of attention for wearing pink which many in the rap scene considered feminine and many speculated that he was the "gay rapper" (as if there were only one gay rapper in the industry). Unfortunately this made Cam come up with the worst catchphrase ever, "No Homo". Basically he'd say something that could be interpreted by some rappers as "gay", and then to cancel it out he'd say "no homo" afterwards. Here's an example,
"Suck my dick. No homo." Now that whole thing is really weird, and homosexuality has always been kind of a touchy subject in mainstream rap, and I guess that in his mind this was of defending his street cred or something? But then the phrase caught on a lil bit, and some people took it to extremes, for example, "Hey, nice shoes. No homo.".
Here's Cam trying to explain the "No Homo" thing on Hot 97. He tries to explain that it isn't a negative thing about homosexuals, aw man, again too weird, just listen to this clip. This is the clip where he tries to explain
The guy is just kinda goofy. His latest thing is him taking the "Stop Snitching" thing to a new level on a recent 60 minutes interview with Andersen Cooper, where he explains that he wouldn't call the cops if he knew that a serial killer was his neighbor.
His hilarious 60 minutes appearance here.
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