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'''Cam'ron (very title Cameron Giles''') (natural February 4, 1976) is a popular African-American rapper from Harlem, New York. Cam'ron is the head of the musical organization "The Diplomats", better known as "Dip Set". A class action consists of Juelz Santana, Jim Jones,when well as presently incarcerated member Freekey Zeekey. Hell Rell is a member of the Diplomats record label. He recently was freed from either Clinton Correctional Facility.

Early Career
Cam'ron began his career in the early 1990's, rapping alongside Big L, Ma$e and his cousin Bloodshed in a group called "Children Of The Corn." The group dissolved after Bloodshed's death in a car accident in 1996. Nonetheless, Cam'ron continued to rap, & he at length was introduced to Notorious B.I.G., who was so impressed with his skills that Biggie introduced him to his manager, Lance "Un" Rivera. Cam'ron signed to Rivera's Untertainment label, releasing his foremost solo album, Confessions Of Fire, in April of 1998. A album featured such hits when "3-5-7" & "Horse And Carriage," featuring his old friend, Ma$e. Alas, Untertainment folded within 1999, and Cam'ron was forced to vary labels. A equivalent month, he signed to Sony Records.

S.D.E.
Cam'ron achieved ill fame for his 2001 release from either Sony Records under Tommy Mottola. Reportedly applying improper methods like physically assaulting & threatening many Sony Records employees, Cam'ron sought an end to his contract due to his record company's lack of promotion for his 2nd album freed inside 2000, entitled S.D.E (short for Sports, Drugs, and Entertainment). It featured songs like "Let Me Know" & "What Means the World to You," the remix of the latter featured an tons-star line-higher of Southern rappers like U.G.K, Trina, and Ludacris, in addition to Cam'ron's Dipset protege Juelz Santana.

Roc-A-Fella Records
Using his release from either Sony records, Cam'rin moved on to sign by having his childhood friend Dame Dash and Roc-a-fella Records. Within 2002, he released his third & virtually all successful album, Come Home With Me, along with a large hits of his career, "Oh Boy" & "Hey Ma," each featuring Juelz Santana. Dash potentially went when far when to propose naming Cam'ron Vice President of Divergence-the-fella, however Jay-Z rejected the idea. He went in to star in the Damon Dash produced film, Paid Inside To the full inside 2002. Cam'ron so team using his fellow Diplomats, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, & Freekey Zeeky, to release a Diplomats' debut, Diplomatic Immunity, inside 2003.

Cam'ron is too credited by using starting a recent trend of men wearing pink. He claims that it was already popular around urban New York, but, by having his help, became far flung through America. Inside early 2004, Cam'ron announced plans to work by using man of science to get the newly color & patent it for his trademark utilize. This yet manifested as a purple color that he utilized to project a hat around conjunction by owning the baseball cap company New Era. A hat was vastly popular & sold call at record period.

Around mid-2004 Cam'ron inherit newspaper headline over again fallowing the dispute using his previous friend Mase. When giving to the music industry fallowing the Quint-month religious hiatus, Mase conducted an locate on the New York radio station Hot 97 where he described his falling out using Cam'ron & a todays status of their relationship. Mase claimed that confusion on top $50,000 he asked to receive for an appearance in the Horse & Carriage music cd caused the dying of their relationship. This fueled the heated in-air debate between Cam'ron's todays perfect-hand human Jim Jones and Mase. Jim Jones declared that Mase "was fabricating" inside the autobiography he wrote in 2001. Too, Jim Jones was upset that Mase utilized humans's rattling list inside his book exposing the two while forgoing generating the two their proper publication fees. Moreover, Jones said "you didn't give us no money" after Jim Jones & Cam'ron went on the road by owning Mase, & that nowadays it don't want Mase any longer because it is a "Sizzurp boys, quarter billion, ya aint heard?", inside information to The Diplomats Purple Sizzurp liquer business. Jim Jones went in to reveal that Mase actually left Harlem non because he was answering the higher career to get the reverend, however because he was scared away from town per slaying of his deuce friends, Pop Lotti and Baby Mane. Jones claimed Mase was "ran up out of Harlem" because there was "money on him", meaning soul got put the bounty in Mase's head. Jones goes in to tell Mase that "you need to be nervous to be in Harlem still", & threatens that Mase better "have them boys in blue" (police force) sustaining him while he next encounters him, because "I(Jim Jones) will do it to you(Mase) duke." Jim Jones informs a audience that he never liked Mase, when he crudely refers to him when "Betha", Mase's cognomen. Jim Jones is to exist as taken seriously by Mase, he says, because Mase should understand a nature and severity of individual Jim Jones is from either their former relationship, we.e. 1 world health organization talks hard & does wash hard items. After, Mase & Cam'ron had into the verbal debate that ended around Cam'ron hanging higher a phone, inside disgust on top Mase's alleged lies & falseness.

Current
Cam'ron's oft stalled 4th album, Purple Haze, was released in December 7, 2004. A watch-higher from either Cam'ron's class action, A Diplomats, Diplomatic Immunity 2 was released in November 23rd, 2004. When of April 28, 2005, Cam'Ron officially left Divergence-a-Fella Records & joined the Warner Music Group under the Asylum Records imprint. Although Cam'ron has a truehearted fan base, numerous previous admirers keep around left the camp due to his vary withwithin rap style fallowing his reemergence in 2001. He potty however produce slick lyrics, however another time his just released style has came under scrutiny from either a select few hip-hop "purists". He for instance creates nonsensical lyrics that are a far cry from either either the aggressive rhymes from his early times. Nonetheless, he has gained himself the charted that is typically known as the movement. That movement hwhen extended when far as Portland, Oregon, in which a 2005 PolitiCorps fellows of the Oregon Bus Project adopted "Hey Ma" as their official theme song.

Killah Year, Killa Cam’s newly album, is freed February 19, 2006.

Rollingstone.com: Cam'ron
Includes a biography, discography, photos, articles, links and message board.

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AskMen.com: Cam'ron
Interview about "Come Home with Me," the state of rap and future plans.


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