Cam’ron and Ma$e have shared a heartfelt message for OJ Simpson, who passed away at the age of 76 this week.
On Thursday (April 11), soon after the news of the former football player and convicted felon’s death became public, the two rappers shared a montage of clips from his appearances on their sports talk show, It Is What It Is.
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“1st OF ALL WE WANT TO SEND OUR HEART FELT CONDOLENCES OUT TO THE FAMILY OF #OJSIMPSON,” the caption read. “2nd OF ALL WE JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU ‘UNCLE O’ FOR GRACING US WITH YOUR PRESENCE, YOU WERE DEFINITELY ONE OF A KIND, YOU BECAME ‘UNCLE O’ TO US CAUSE IT WAS LIKE HAVING A REAL UNCLE AROUND.
“YOU WERE FUNNY & VERY DOWN TO EARTH… WHEN WE SIGNED OUR DEAL THE FIRST CO-HOST WE THOUGHT ABOUT HAVING WAS ‘UNCLE O’ WE SAID OH WE GONE BREAK THE INTERNET WITH #OJ & THAT WE DID, YOU HELPED MAKE OUR SHOW 10x’s BETTER & EVERYONE LOVED YOU…”
The note concluded: “WE WILL CHERISH THESE LAST MEMORIES WE WERE ABLE TO SHARE WITH YOU… YOU WILL FOREVER BE APART OF THE #ITISWHATITISTALK FAMILY [dove emoji] WE LOVE YOU ‘UNCLE O’…. #LLTHEJUICE.”
Check out the full tribute below.
The embattled NFL Hall of Famer joined the show the aforementioned talk show in September last year to discuss professional football over a 17-minute appearance on video call.
During the chat, he expressed his support for running backs (the position he played for the Buffalo Bills) like New York Giants’ Saquon Barkley and Las Vegas Raiders’ Josh Jacobs, who have been in contractual disputes with their teams as organizations have been reluctant to sign people of their positon to long-term deals.
“Eliminate the franchise tag for the running backs,” he said. “You can’t make them subject to the franchise tag. We have the Constitution, the greatest piece of legislation ever written, but we have amendments… They got to do something to rectify this inequity.”
As far as his favorite running backs at the time, he named listed Saquon Barkley, Nick Chubb, Derrick Henry, Dalvin Cook and Christian McCaffrey.
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“Saquon, I often tell people … you put us in the same situation, the only guys I’d be competing with are Barry Sanders, Gale Sayers and maybe Eric Dickerson,” the Heisman Trophy-winner said. “I would certainly throw Barkley into that argument.”
On Thursday, O.J. Simpson’s family took to X (formerly Twitter) to reveal that the controversial sports and pop culture figured had died on Wednesday (April 10) following a previously undisclosed battle with cancer.
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While they did not offer any details about the type of cancer, nor when he was first diagnosed, they did share that Simpson was “surrounded by his children and grandchildren” at the time of his passing and issued a request that the public “respect their wishes for privacy and grace.”
HipHopDX extends its condolences to the friends and family of O.J. Simpson.
