Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Cam'ron
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.
Just growing up in Harlem, it didn't matter what you had to do to get fresh - you would do it.
I roll with the punches.
Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music.
You can get away with black sweatpants for a day or two, but pink is something you wear for one day: the day before you go to the washer or cleaners. When people wear pink t-shirts for three straight days, it disturbs me. It aggravates me.
I'm a caterer, interior decorator - a lot of hobbies people don't know I do.
Maybe I beef with people, but it was never random. Anybody you name, I could give you the reason why it happened or whatever led to the beef.
I'm Mr. Romance.
That's what I love about the Internet - instead of having to wait on radio to play your song or TV to play your video, I can use the Internet as a tool to get my music out earlier.
If you rocking Steve Madden, we won't go anywhere.
I don't care if I am doing music: my son comes with me every weekend. If I'm on the West Coast, he'll come fly and be with me. If I'm on the East Coast, I get my son every weekend. It doesn't matter where I'm at - show, no show, whatever. Break or no break. I have my son every summer and every weekend while he's in school.
If you just freestyle, everybody is gonna go, 'Freestyle.'
I'm looking into making toilet paper. It's not an option unless you a bum and gotta use newspaper. It's not an option. Like, it's an option if you wanna drive a car. It's an option if you wanna use a straw. It's an option if you wanna wear a pair of Nikes or Reeboks.
Dipset is Dipset, but it's over.
People are foolish if they think I'm going to lose my head and give up anything to anyone just because someone threatens me.
Everything is a catwalk for me. I walk to the store, and that's a catwalk.
It doesn't matter where I'm at - if I'm somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head... It's just kinda instilled in me.
Seeing Jay Z's just a great example of somebody who comes from a ghetto to rise to where he's at. I think... he done a great job.
I've never really dissed Ma$e - I just tell you the truth, and if you think he's a sucker for that, it ain't my fault.
Go to school and get your education and follow your dreams.
I've never started beef with anybody that didn't start with me first.
I'm just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.
Where I come from, once word gets out that you've cooperated with the police, that only makes you a bigger target of criminal violence. That is a dark reality in so many neighborhoods like mine across America. I'm not saying its right, but it's reality.
When I did pink, I did it so I wouldn't be dressing like everybody else.
When I first started wearing pink, it wasn't nothing I planned on doing or strategized. But people showed me so much love for the pink mink I wore, I had to go out to Pantone and create my own color, which is called Killa Pink.
To be honest, the real money is in merchandising and performances.
To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.
It's hard to find good business partners and people who do good business the right way.
To me, any publicity is good publicity.
I just do hip-hop because I love to do it.
If somebody says or does something to me first, then I'll respond, and I go overboard with it, and it seems like I'm the one that has beef with somebody.
There's nothing really to talk about with the police. I mean, for what?
You got people that come in, one album, two albums, and they're gone. A lot of people couldn't take the break I took and come back into the game, and people be checking for them.
Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.
I just think that rap takes way more slack than the video games and the movies. We don't make guns. Smith and Wesson makes guns. Like, white people make guns and bullets, and all we're doing is rhyming and putting words together.
I won't talk to the D.C. police.
I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes.
I love having my son in my life. That's why it's more fathers in the hip-hop community, because they probably went through a fatherless childhood like I did.
I always grow, every album.
You always gotta take advantage when you can spend time with your kids.
I'm from the building where the wave was invented. Downstairs, under me. Ask Bigavel. Y'all call him Bigavel, Max B. I know him as Charlie Rambo. I'm from the building where the wave was invented, and it was invented after I was born.
I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me to do that.
There is nothing that will be bigger than a Michael Jordan tribute.
I sell bikinis. I sell comforters. I sell Cam'ron pillows. I sell a bunch of things off my likeness, and it all came from music, so it's definitely a blessing.
Me, I don't really have time to do nothing with Mase.
You can't be going through life expecting everything. You gotta have discipline.
I won't just give up anything to anybody because they're waving a gun around.
When you constantly working, working, you don't really get to appreciate the fans and people loving your stuff.
When we did Diplomats music, it was all genuine, and I think that's why people love it so much, because they seen a group of kids from Harlem that had almost nothing come up to be platinum-selling artists, and people rode that wave with us.
It just feels good when I give people sneakers.
I'm happy to see somebody from the urban community that could go out and make a half-a-billion dollars.
I work with any producer that brings me a hot beat, but you don't always know if it's a sample.
You want to stay grounded, but you need to keep the music growing.
No record company in the world would say, 'We're not promoting if you keep calling somebody a snitch.' They know what makes money. A record company would never be that stupid. Ever.
I'm not gonna sit back and listen to somebody who listens to 3LW all day.
I'm the gorgeous gangster.
Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times.
They didn't know what to do with rap music. You walk into Epic, and they're wearing straight-leg khakis with creases, Prada shoes with tassels. They couldn't comprehend where I was coming from.
When I was young, I wanted to be like the rappers. I remember being in junior high and wanting a fisherman hat and a link because EPMD had one. I wanted to wear Adidas because Run-DMC wore Adidas. As I came into my own, I just wanted to do me.
It takes more than a botched carjacking to keep me down.
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