Cam’ron has found himself in the hot seat after taking aim at Odell Beckham Jr. in a new episode of his hit sports show.
On Thursday (January 4), a snippet of a new episode of It Is What It Is made its rounds on social media. During the segment, Ma$e, along with his co-host Cam, can be heard criticizing Odell Beckham Jr. and calling him “zesty.”
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“It’s OBJ, ya know, people say he’s a little zesty sometimes. I’m not going to throw that on him,” said Cam who, when prodded for context from co-host Treasure Wilson, referenced an Instagram photo in which Odell can be seen getting a tattoo on his buttocks by two men.
“OBJ has a picture up and let’s go to the picture while I talk about it,” he added as the video panned to a photo shared by the footballer himself, in late 2017. “Getting tattoos on his ass with two men behind him, tattooing his ass,” he continued.
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“Gimme a close-up real quick. He like this Murda,” he added while mimicking OBJ’s larger-than-life smile. “With two n-ggas tattooing on his ass like this. And listen, I don’t have a problem with OBJ. I see OBJ. We say ‘What’s up?’ And, my thing is I don’t care what you doing,” he concluded.
Check out the video clip below:
The commentary was met with immediate backlash, with some viewers wondering where the industry vets find the time to reduce others.
“Why are these older generation men/old singers and rapper so obsessed with men younger than them and their sexuality? Seems a bit odd,” wrote one user.
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“How is he Zesty tho because it’s a lot or hard gangstas that’s zesty behind closed doors and homes,” a second user inquired.
“So when men are comfortable with themselves, and give others the benefit of the doubt…it makes them zesty. I guess you have to act tough all the time [laughing face emoji],” a third comment reads.
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Meanwhile, a fourth person proposed there are much bigger concerns to tackle, writing: “Can we focus on food insecurity, subpar schools, homelessness and violence in our communities?”
The controversy comes shortly after the Diplomats MC dropped a masterful freestyle over D’Angelo’s smooth “Cruisin” beat.
Throughout the three-minute freestyle, Cam name-drops the likes of JAY-Z, Method Man,Mobb Deep, Ma$e, Donald Trump, LeBron James and more.
“I did a lot of things to stay away from poverty/ Rolled Mobb Deep, causing Havoc, made me a Prodigy/ RIP Bandana P and my father Gene,” he raps.
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“From Andre hustler shit I used to borrow jeans, then Wu-Tang made that song all they call the ‘C.R.E.A.M.’/ Thanks Method Man that hook made my Beretta dance/ And no I never left no prints I had them leather hands.”
Cam continued: “Way before Moderna I gave fiends their medicine… We had the winters while Jay gave us the summers/ Bron still in high school dunking and hitting jumpers kept Mav and Rich with ’em/ Leon Rose like, ‘Why you dump us?’”
