Some artists may find it difficult to release one project a year, but Cam’ron says he plans on releasing one every month, a strategy the emcee recently discussed when addressing the landscape of the music industry.
“Music has changed and it’s always fun, but I like to make money while I’m making music, so I just had to figure out a new strategy,” Cam’ron says in the cover story of Mass Appeal’s issue #54. “Things are changing and if you don’t change with the times, you gon’ get stuck in the past. I’ve been working on this thing called ‘The First of the Month.’ I’m putting out an EP every month with a 30-minute episode so you’re not waiting a year or more for the next album… [The 30-minute episode is] kinda like a show version of Killa Season. Instead of spending money on one movie, every month you have something new to look forward to.
“That’s just one thing that’s next,” Cam’ron adds. “Me and Dame have been working. I got back with Dame and it’s a pleasure. That’s my big brother. We just put out the Diplomat clothing line which has been great. We got a project called Federal Reserve with A-Trak that he put together. He’s working with Smoke DZA and I’m helping him out with that. We’re going to do a project eventually. We got a fur line coming. We got a lot of stuff going on.”
A project many Cam’ron fans have been asking for is another Dipset effort. Despite years of on and off turmoil within the group, Cam’ron says the crew’s members are currently in a better place.
“We all cool,” he says. “The thing about Dipset, it ain’t just music. It’s a lifestyle. Do what we want, when we want, that’s what diplomats do, so that’s why we named it Diplomats. We all in a good space. We mad cool. Juelz [Santana] was over the other day for his birthday. I spoke to Jim [Jones] yesterday. It’s just that we all busy, and for us to do music, we have to chill and be in the same room cause it would be fake if we didn’t. I could send this person a song if we wanted it to be like microwave rap, then cool. We’d rather have our shit sit in the oven and get cooked for the two, three hours the way it should be. But everybody’s in a good space.”
In March, Dipset announced DIPSET USA clothing on Karma Loop. “Basically when we formed Dipset,” Cam’ron said at the time, “it was more like, me and Jim [Jones] was like, we was always fly, we always got girls, we always was getting a couple dollars—in our eyes we thought that was money but it really wasn’t. We formed the Diplomats and then people in the streets started dapping to it. Then it became music. Then when we did music, people started feeling the music because of what we was doing in the streets. So, that’s why we got such a good vibe with it. But, like, you know, everybody started doing their solo stuff, we all branched into other businesses. At the end of the day, we made investments, we’re our own bosses, and all the profit comes back to us. So, we definitely gon’ be around, we ain’t going nowhere. Besides that, there’s a whole new generation of Dipset coming up beneath us. So, we’ll be around for a minute.”
Cam’ron’s Mass Appeal cover is below.
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Another has been trying to hang on.
HANG ON WITH A CAPE.
no but in all seriousness, the man has been able to at least remain in headlines based on a ton of things. none of those things happens to really be music. so, in many ways, you’re right. still, gotta give him props for remaining in headlines in 2014. killa!
How much did your last album sell, Cameron?
Killa good mc sometimes but he too much of a flashy harlem nigga I wouldn’t buy his music the capes shit gotta go no motherfucker is gon be walkin thru the project hallways in a fuckin cape cam. He spends to much time talking shit tellin you how rich he is n everyone else is broke so guess he don’t need anyone to buy his album then ?
He be lying bout what he done in the streets we know cam jim n juelz aint been bout the streets like that Freeky Zeeky is a different breed tho that nigga crazy
After seeing niggas in dresses, capes should be the least of your worries.
yea young homo thug in the 8 year old girls dress was the worst thing ever in rap
i been waitin on killa season 2 for the last 8 years…smh
rick ross, meek mill and wale are worth more money than cam, jim and juelz/freekey put together…..
and they say harlem niggas kno how make money…
Bitch please wale too busy gettin Ethered by old white sport commentators and Meek mill has to sue his own city to reach a mill.
R.I.P. Tina Turner.
she’s not dead.
Its over for dipset !
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Saturday, April 19th 2014 (10PM To Midnight) Pete Rock Production Spotlight
Pete Rock And C.L. Smooth – Go With The Flow
Public Enemy – Shut Em Down (Pe-te Rock Mixx Instrumental)
House Of Pain – Jump Around ( Pete Rock Remix)
Pete Rock And C.L. Smooth – The Creator (Surfboard Mix)
Brand Nubian – Slow Down (Pete Rock’s Newromix)
Run-D.M.C. Feat. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – Down With The King
Pete Rock And C.L. Smooth – They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) (Vibes Mix)
Nas – The World Is Yours
Jeru The Damaja – You Can’t Stop The Prophet (Pete Rock Remix)
Das Efx – Jussumen (Remix)
Das Efx – Real Hip Hop (Pete Rock Remix)
Naughty By Nature – Hip Hop Hooray (Pete Rock Remix)
Lords Of The Underground – Flow On (Pete Rock Remix)
Jamal – Fades Em All (Pete Rock Mix)
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – Searching (Remix)
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – Take You There (Remix)
Large Professor & Pete Rock – The Rap World
Pete Rock And The Lost Boyz – The Yearn
The Psycho Realm – The Stone Garden (Pete Rock Remix)
Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star – Respiration (Flying High Main Mix)
Scritti Politti – Tinseltown To The Boogiedown (Pete Rock Variation)
InI – The Life I Live
Pete Rock Feat. MC Eiht – One Life To Live
Pete Rock – Take Your Time (Instrumental)
Rakim – The Saga Begins
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Saturday, April 19th 2014 (2PM To 4PM) Dipset Special 4 The Capital!
Mariah Carey Feat. Cam’Rom – Boy (I Need You)
Cam’Ron Feat. Juelz Santana – Oh Boy
Cam’Ron – Horse & Carriage (Instrumental)
Cam’Ron Feat. Mase – Horse & Carriage
Julez Santana – Down
Jim Jones – J.I.M.M.Y
Cam’Ron Feat. lil Wayne -Touch It Or Not
Jim Jones Feat. Cam’Ron & Bezel – Certified Gangsta
The Diplomats Feat. Cam’Ron & Jim Jones – I Really Mean It
The Diplomats Feat. Cam’Ron & Juelz Santana – Dipset Anthem
Julez Santana Feat. Cam’Ron & Sizzla – Shottas
Dipset Feat. Julez Santana, Jim Jones, Wayne Marshall And Vybz Kartel – Straight Off The Top
Jim Jones Feat. P. Diddy, Paul Wall & Jha-Jha – What You Been Drinking On?
Byrd Gang Feat. Jim Jones, Max B, Stack Bundles & Mel Matrix – Life’s Like Movie
40 Cal. Feat. Jha-Jha – The Big Boys
Byrd Gang Feat. Max B – Make A Chick Go
Cam’Ron Feat. Skitzo And Byrd Lady – Cookies-N-Apple Juice
Jim Jones – We Fly High
Hell Rell – Show Off
Juelz Santana – Mic Check
Max B – Why You Do That
Freekey Zekey Feat. Tobb – Livin’ It Up
Cam’Ron Feat. Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey & Toya – Hey Ma
Cam’Ron Feat. Juelz Santana & Toya – Hey Ma (Remix)
Jim Jones Feat. Trey Songz – Summer Wit’ Miami
JR Writer Feat. Nicole Wray – Xtacy
Cam’Ron – What Means The World To You
Cam’Ron Feat. Jaheim – Lord You Know
Jaheim Feat. Cam’Ron & Juelz Santana – Fabulous (Diplomats Remix)
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