Cam was apparently hanging out in the Koch offices with the label’s general manager, and the two of them decided decided to call the station to argue with 50. I’m pretty sure Cam has never actually released a record on Koch and never will, but a few of the Diplomats have. A week or two, 50 was on Hot 97 talking to Angie Martinez, and he made some sort of offhand comment about how Koch Records is a graveyard and he can shut down any Koch project.
Of course, the issue started in a pretty ridiculous way. Maybe the internet has ruined rap beef forever. Nobody needs to hear 120 songs’ worth of Cam’ron and 50 Cent sniping at each other.
Cam told Kay Slay the other day that this beef might last 120 rounds, but it used to be that rappers would save all their best material and then end everything in a round or two. That’s certainly industrious, but it also means we end up hearing whatever loose rhymes Cam had bouncing around in his head rather than any sort of vicious, planned-out response. That means Cam had to hear the song and watch its video, write his response, run to the studio, record it, post it on the internet, and send it to radio stations, all in about the same amount of time it took me to load up my rental car. Cam’ron released his response to “Funeral Music” on the same day the video hit the internet. You know things are weird when rappers are responding to this stuff faster than bloggers. I was off the internet for less than four days, and when I came back, the gossip surrounding this beef had already pretty much played itself out. Last Thursday, my hard drive crashed, and on Friday morning I left to spend a weekend out of town. The only thing about it that’s really surprising is the speed with which it came into being. The chances that this thing will produce another “Ether” are exactly zero. You’re welcome.Īs far as the beef itself goes, it’s all pretty silly: yet another example of sensationalist attention-grabbing that has more to do with 50 Cent and Cam’s desire to keep their names on people’s mouths than to any genuine hostility between the two men. In any case, for anyone who was wondering, this is Status Ain’t Hood’s biggest and probably only contribution to rap. Maybe he should break Grant off something I have no idea how this stuff works. 50 didn’t quote my review in his lyrics or anything, so he certainly doesn’t owe me any royalties. Grant and I exchanged completely bemused e-mails yesterday, which is the sort of thing you do when the drawing your friend did for your blog ends up in a music video made by the biggest rap star in the world. But just as all this is ending, the video fades out on Grant’s drawing, now with an epitaph for Cam’s career etched underneath it.
There’s also a short and mean-spirited cartoon of Cam’s Lamborghini getting shot up in DC and a clip from Killa Season where Cam offers to snitch on some people, which proves that someone in 50’s camp also had to sit through all two and a half hours of Killa Season. The video is mostly standard-issue post- Uncut Youtube rap video stuff: guys with bandannas on their faces standing on top of ATVs, girls in lingerie fondling diamond-studded guns, 50 looking smug. When I saw the quickie video for 50’s “Funeral Music,” the Cam dis he sent out into the world this past Friday, my jaw just about scraped the ground. Grant knew I hated the movie, so he did a completely awesome photorealistic pencil drawing of Cam with a gun to his head, the implication I guess being that Cam had totally shot himself in the head by putting out this piece of shit.
#Camron diss jay z video movie#
Last year, I went to see Cam’ron’s movie Killa Season in its extremely limited theatrical engagement, and I asked Grant to do a drawing of Cam for the entry I wrote about it. For a while, my friend Grant Siedlecki has been contributing occasional drawings to this blog. But at least to me, the most interesting thing about the still-gestating Cam’ron/50 Cent beef is the irrefutable evidence that someone in 50 Cent’s camp has looked at Status Ain’t Hood at least once. I’m going to go ahead and say that 50 Cent almost certainly does not read Status Ain’t Hood I’d be utterly flabbergasted and completely amped if he did.
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