Cam’ron is confident that the 2005 shooting that resulted in him getting hit in both arms was the result of a line he said as Rico in the 2002 film, Paid In Full.
On October 23, 2005, the Dipset rapper was shot in Washington D.C. in a failed carjacking while waiting at a red light. Reportedly iced out in $200k worth of diamonds, a wounded Cam somehow managed to drive himself in his blue Lamborghini Gallardo to Howard University Hospital where he was treated and released.
On a new episode of his Talk With Flee show published on March 4, Killa put the blame on a line Dame Dash made him say during re-shoots of the film, which went something to the effect of, “I’ll give you some n-ggas from D.C. but not no Harlem n-ggas.”
Cam objected to the line because, as he put it, “N-ggas from D.C. already don’t like New York n-ggas.” And though he tried to push back, he ultimately lost the battle.
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“He told me I had to do it, so I did it – and four years later, n-ggas shot me in D.C.,” he concluded with a shrug.
The convo happens at the 38:30 mark below.
Cam’ron, Wood Harris and Mekhi Phifer’s characters were loosely based on the real lives of Harlem hustlers, Azie “AZ” Faison, Rich Porter and Alpo Martinez.
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Dame Dash was a producer on the film and is currently working on an official sequel and has previously told a similar story to Cam’s about the shooting.
“Cam went through a lot, you know? He got shot over that role in Washington,” he said on a 2022 episode of SHOWTIME Basketball’s All The Smoke. “Yeah, that was over that. He’s never told his story, but there was times I hadn’t really realized what happened and I was asking him to do another role once and he was like, ‘Yo bro, I got shot over that role.’
“There was a certain scene where he was like, ‘I don’t wanna do that scene.’ So when I found out, I felt a little responsible and I didn’t wanna put anybody in that position again. ‘Cause people take this story really serious. So it has to be really done completely correctly.”
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Dame has been discussing a sequel to the legendary film for many years, even announcing he was filming at one point, but nothing has come to fruition as of yet.
