On Cam’ron’s 2002 track Dead Or Alive, Cam raps, “The way I been treated in this industry? Not nicely / Little faggot motherfucker like Mike Lighty.”
Though on the official version of the song has Lighty’s name censored, the track refers to an altercation Cam and his Diplomat crew had with Mike Lighty, the brother of now-deceased A&R Chris Lighty. Chris Lighty co-founded Violator, a record label and management company which represented, among others, 50 Cent, who would later beef with Cam’ron.
In a recent interview with VladTV, Dipset’s Freekey Zekey spoke about the altercation with Mike Lighty.
“We goin’ to do this show,” said Zekey. “I think we in Boston, Massachusetts. It’s me, Cam, Jim, and Juelz, and my boy British. British is about 4’9″, we call him Buddy Lee…”
“So we go to this show, see Mike Lighty, Mike Lighty said, ‘Y’all niggas is next,'” he said.
Things ramped up at the show when Dipset learned that other acts had gotten paid to attend. “N.O.R.E. come off the stage,” he said. “We like, ‘N.O.R.E., whaddup?’ He like, ‘Where the fuck Mike Lighty, he supposed to pay me! Where my payment?’ We like, ‘Pay you? This ain’t a promo?’ He like, ‘Shit, it might be for y’all! Y’all niggas is suckas, ha!’ So we like, what? Oh, fuck that nigga, ‘Fuck you, Mike Lighty! We’ll slap the shit out of you!’ We thought we was gangsta. We got hands on him, in Mike Lighty’s face like, ‘You gonna pay us, we ain’t gettin’ on no fuckin’ stage [until] you pay us our fuckin’ money!'”
Things took a turn for Dipset, however. “Mike Lighty go inside, come out with some niggas 6’5″, and 17 niggas. We like, ‘Oh, shit.’ They all run over, and they grab Cam. Mike Lighty’s like, ‘Take his chain! Take his chain!'”
Fortunately for Zekey and his crew, they had backup. “When we get to the van, British come out with the hammer! They all sliding like, ‘No!’ And British took the kid Mike Lighty chain. And after that, we drove off, and we went to the studio, and made a song about Mike Lighty.”
Watch the interview below:
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Gangsta!
what a great story to tell the grand kids one day
lol @ black people – for real. All they do is bitch about “geting payed”, steal chains and shoes and rob people.
LOL @ WHITE PEOPLE THEY USED TO BE THE EDUCATED ONES THAT COULD SPELL WORDS NOW THEY CAN’T EVEN SPELL “PAID”…
LOL! C failed.
lol they think they some tough guys
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666
666 devils
hey u mother bitching crazy at ya
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man fuck these old heads always talkin bout what they did decades ago “yahh nikka we was robbin in 74 yahh nikka i shot that bitch nikka in 93 ohhh yeaaaaa” like who gives a fuck what these 40 yr old nikkas doin now? freeky zeeky been shot and stabbed more times then every living person in harlem. why not talk bout that? tired of these lames stories that aint got shit to do with whats happening now foh
right. Some old niggroe robs some irrelevant niggroe. Great story
WELL, THE NEW RAPPERS AIN’T DONE SHIT THEY ALL PUSSY MADE SO ALL WE GOT IS OLD TIME STORIES!
stop bitchin and respect your elders lil boy
that is true.. you Young cats talking about NOW NOW NOW… but yah not making no history…. You cant even remember that rapper name you rooted for 3 years ago while Ill Matic Ready to Die and DoggyStyle all albums that are 20 years old this year IS STILL RELEVANT in music and in lyrics TODAY…..
You Young niggaz dont even have a childhood or music that you can go back to an say yeah I was there when this joint dropped yah so worried about Now and aint NOTHING HAPPENING NOW…
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Pretty sure even ONE of those 17, 6 foot 6 niggas would’ve popped that poppa smurf looking nigga in his leg.
We just washed him up in the bx lol he no bum ass nigga
Dat nigga no good