In 2000, Cam'ron was working with music executive Tommy Mottola and released his second album S.D.E. The album achieved gold status and made the Top 10 of both the pop and R&B charts.
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His debut album, Confessions of Fire, was released a year later in July 1998 and included singles such as “3-5-7” (which was also featured in the movie Woo), and “Horse and Carriage” featuring Mase which reached the R&B Top Ten and just missed out on reaching the pop Top 40. Biggie was so impressed by Cam'ron that he introduced him to his partner Lance “Un” Rivera who signed Cam'ron to his Untertainment label, distributed by Epic Records. by Mase who was signed to Bad Boy Records at the time.
Two years before Big L’s murder in 1999, Cam'ron was introduced to The Notorious B.I.G.
After Bloodshed’s death in a car accident on March 2, 1997, the group disbanded and the remaining members continued solo careers.ġ998–2002: Confessions of Fire, S.D.E. and Come Home with Me He began his musical career in the mid 1990s, rapping alongside Big L, Mase, and his cousin Bloodshed, in a group called Children Of The Corn. Instead, he enrolled in a college in Texas, without even graduating from high school, but soon dropped out and returned to Harlem where he began selling drugs before starting his rap career. He was a promising basketball player alongside Mase, however, he was unable to take advantage of scholarship offers due to his poor academic standing. He went to school at Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, where he met his longtime friends Mase and Jim Jones. Biographyġ976–97: Early life and career beginningsĬameron Giles was born and raised in Harlem. In 2009, after taking a hiatus due to his mother’s health, Cam'ron returned to music and released his sixth studio album Crime Pays. It reached #3 on the Billboard 200.Ĭam'ron is currently working on his seventh studio album entitled Purple Haze 2, which he has stated will be his final album, however in June 2016 in an interview with DJ Whoo Kid he stated that his album had been renamed to “Killa Season 2: The Pink Edition” with an approximate release date of November 2016 with no mention of the project being his final album, the first single from the album “Oh Yeah” was released on and featured Juelz Santana. In 2006 Cam'ron released his fifth studio album, Killa Season. The album also contained a movie of the same name, in which Cam'ron made his director/screenwriter debut and starred as the main character. In 2005 after disbanding his record label, Diplomat Records, from Roc-A-Fella Records due to business disagreements, Cam'ron signed the label to a distribution deal with Asylum Records. In 2004 Cam'ron released his fourth studio album Purple Haze to critical acclaim reaching Gold status by the RIAA. In 2002 Cam'ron starred in the Roc-A-Fella films Paper Soldiers and Paid in Full. In 2001 Cam'ron signed a new label deal with Roc-A-Fella Records and released his critically acclaimed, third studio album Come Home with Me. it achieved Platinum status by the RIAA, and also contained Cam'ron’s highest charting Billboard single to date, “Oh Boy,” featuring his artist at the time Juelz Santana. In 2000 Cam'ron released his second album S.D.E. In 1998 Cam'ron released his debut album Confessions of Fire on Epic, the album would achieve Gold status by the RIAA. Cam'ron was also a part of the group Children of the Corn before they disbanded in 1997.
He is the de facto leader of East Coast hip hop groups The Diplomats (also known as Dipset), and U.N. Cameron Ezike Giles (born February 4, 1976), better known by his stage name Cam'ron (formerly Killa Cam), is an American rapper, actor and entrepreneur from Harlem, New York.
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