Near the end of the 2010s, the rapper alternately known as Killa Cam celebrated the 15th anniversary of Purple Haze with Purple Haze 2 (2019), his first true solo album in a decade. Since then, his profile has been considerably lower, and he has used his clout to support younger talent such as Vado, with whom he has recorded as the U.N. Amid the rise of his busy Diplomats crew, co-founded with Jim Jones, Cam'ron went even farther out with Purple Haze (2004), and had his deliberately unorthodox, over-the-top effort rewarded with another gold disc. After operating with the likes of Big L and the pre-fame Mase, and earning the support of the Notorious B.I.G., the rapper scored a Top Ten, gold-certified hit with his debut album, Confessions of Fire (1998), and within four years threatened to crown the Billboard Hot 100 with the Grammy-nominated Just Blaze production "Oh Boy" and more pop-oriented "Hey Ma," singles off the platinum Come Home with Me (2002). ![]() "Dead or Alive" (featuring Jim Jones) 4:07ġ3.Cam'ron's increasingly outlandish yet unmistakably East Coast gangsta rap was one of the most unlikely mainstream infiltrations of the late '90s and 2000s. "I Just Wanna" (featuring Juelz Santana) 4:09ġ2. "Stop Calling" (featuring Freekey Zekey & McGruff) 6:06ġ1. "On Fire Tonight" (featuring Freekey Zekey) 5:40ġ0. "Hey Ma" (featuring DJ Kay Slay, Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey & Toya) 3:40ĩ. "Welcome to New York City" (featuring Jay-Z & Juelz Santana) 5:09Ĩ. "Come Home With Me" (featuring Jim Jones & Juelz Santana) 5:01ħ. "Daydreaming" (featuring Tiffany Carlin) 6:29Ħ. "Live My Life (Leave Me Alone)" (featuring Daz Dillinger) 3:11ĥ. "Oh Boy" (featuring Juelz Santana) 3:24Ĥ. I’ll always remember that they owned 20 And that’s good enough.Ģ. For Cam, Dipset, and Come Home With Me, it’s better to quantify their impact through their amazeballs outfits, timeless songs, and ability to make music that sounded like a bunch of friends free-styling for fun in a basement. Sometimes, the albums and rappers who are too “of a time” to equate across eras, a la Cam’ron, are the ones you look back on most fondly, since they represent a moment that seems too archaic to express in words. Although relatively successful, both albums were unable to generate commercial and critical acclaim. After releasing his debut album in 1998, Cam dropped his follow-up, S.D.E., in 2000. As Big L and Ma$e’ understudy, Cam was introduced to Biggie, which led to a deal with Epic Records. "Daydreaming" was a later single released in 2003 but failed to duplicate the success from his earlier singles.Īlthough Cam’s third album introduced him to mainstream rap fans, the rapper had spent the previous decade perfecting his craft alongside Big L, Ma$e, and his cousin, Bloodshed, in the Harlem-based group, Children of the Corn. The second hit was "Hey Ma", which reached number three on the Hot 100 and number eight on the UK Singles Chart, becoming his biggest hit. ![]() ![]() "Oh Boy" held the number one spot on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles for five straight weeks, the number one spot on the Hot Rap Tracks and peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Its two singles were "Oh Boy" (featuring Juelz Santana) and "Hey Ma" (featuring Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey, and DJ Kay Slay). After demanding his release from Epic, Giles signed to Roc-A-Fella Records in 2001 and released his third studio album Come Home with Me the following year it achieved Platinum status by the RIAA, and also contained Cam'ron's highest-charting singles to date. (Sports Drugs & Entertainment) in 19 respectively the former achieved Gold status by the RIAA. Beginning his career in the mid-1990s as Killa Cam, Giles signed to Lance "Un" Rivera's Untertainment under the aegis of Epic and released his first two studio albums Confessions of Fire and S.D.E. To date, it is his most commercially successful album, it peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 226,000 copies and eventually sold over one million copies in the United States, being certified Platinum by the RIAA.Ĭameron Ezike Giles (born February 4, 1976), better known by his stage name Cam'ron, is an American rapper, record executive, and actor from Harlem, New York. There are featured guest appearances from The Diplomats, DJ Kay Slay, Daz Dillinger, Tiffany, Jay-Z, McGruff, Memphis Bleek, and Beanie Sigel. It served as an introduction of the Cam'ron-fronted rap group, The Diplomats, to the general public. The album was released on May 14, 2002, by Roc-A-Fella Records, Diplomat Records and Def Jam Recordings. Come Home with Me is the third studio album by Harlem rapper Cam'ron and it is also his debut under Roc-A-Fella Records.
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