Cam’ron has recalled the time Suge Knight confronted him for sampling 2Pac on his debut album Come Home With Me.
On “Live My Life (Leave Me Alone),” the Dipset rapper made extensive use of ‘Pac’s classic song “Ambitionz Az a Ridah,” leading to a tense run-in with the Death Row Records co-founder shortly after his album’s release in 2002.
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Speaking on his YouTube show Talk With Flee, Killa Cam said: “To me, the Suge Knight conversation wasn’t a tough situation, it was more of a conversation that got a little aggressive and then it wasn’t aggressive.”
“We were outside the Sentry Club in L.A., if I’m not mistaken,” he continued. “[Suge] came over to us with probably about six, seven people and he was like, ‘Yo, you owe me money.’
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“I was like, ‘Owe you money? For what?’ He was like, ‘You used one of my beats.’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t know what beat you’re talking about.’ He was talking about 2Pac’s beat. Daz [Dillinger] had actually done the beat and Daz played it over for me in the studio.
“[Suge] was like, ”Ambitionz Az a Ridah,’ the 2Pac record.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, Daz came and played that over for me. I don’t owe you anything.’ He started laughing and said, ‘Daz can’t control shit, Daz don’t own nothing. I own it.'”
Cam’ron then claimed that Knight threatened him by saying: “I don’t give a fuck ’cause I fucked so-and-so up,” referring to “somebody he thought was in our camp or I was affiliated with or doing business with.”
After Cam stood his ground, he said Suge suddenly backed down and told him: “You know what? Don’t even worry about it, little homie. We good, it’s all good.”
“That was the beginning, middle and end of that whole situation. And he walked off,” he concluded.
The Harlem native previously reflected on the situation on his 2019 song “Fast Lane,” rapping: “Walked up out of [the club], got approached by Suge Knight / He said I owed him money, started screwin’ / I said, ‘No, I don’t, homie, now tell me what we doin’?’ / He said, ‘How you figure?’ I said, ‘I said so’ / Tito flicked his knife, he was ready to go to death row / I’m talkin’ kamikaze, but we resolved it calmly / Everything I say is truth, I put that on my mommy.”
