Cam'Ron Quotes

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.

- Cam'ron

Doing, Guns, Smith, Rhyming

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.

- Cam'ron

Think, Tell, Fault, Sucker

People are foolish if they think I'm going to lose my head and give up anything to anyone just because someone threatens me.

- Cam'ron

Think, Give, Going, Foolish

There is nothing that will be bigger than a Michael Jordan tribute.

- Cam'ron

Michael Jordan, Michael, Jordan

I'm just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.

- Cam'ron

Dig, Rap, Persona, Dude

I work with any producer that brings me a hot beat, but you don't always know if it's a sample.

- Cam'ron

Work, Hot, Always, Sample

It's hard to find good business partners and people who do good business the right way.

- Cam'ron

Business Partners, Right Way

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.

- Cam'ron

Doing, Weekend, Show, East Coast

The movies that I've done in the past, everybody's been like, 'Cam always gets away in a movie playing Cam.' So, like, I'm trying to step outside the box a little bit just to show my range in acting.

- Cam'ron

Away, Been, Everybody, Cam

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.

- Cam'ron

Sell, Off, Likeness, Blessing

There was a time when only athletes had sneakers. Entertainers having sneakers, on any level, is a blessing.

- Cam'ron

Level, Entertainers, Having, Blessing

I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes.

- Cam'ron

Sometimes, Through, Album, Haze

To be honest, the real money is in merchandising and performances.

- Cam'ron

Money, Honest, Real, Real Money

They treat my stuff like wine. It just gets better with time.

- Cam'ron

Treat, Better, Like, Wine

If you rocking Steve Madden, we won't go anywhere.

- Cam'ron

Go, Rocking, Steve, Madden

You know what's dope about social media, the Internet, and stuff in general? It's that you never really realized before how much love you get, and now you can see people around the country wearing your stuff or wearing your face.

- Cam'ron

Love, Country, Before, Social Media

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.

- Cam'ron

Still, Popping, Rhymes, Instilled

Just growing up in Harlem, it didn't matter what you had to do to get fresh - you would do it.

- Cam'ron

Growing Up, Growing, Would, Fresh

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.

- Cam'ron

America, Out, Across, Criminal

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.

- Cam'ron

Love, I Think, Almost, Group

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.

- Cam'ron

Young, I Remember, Wanting, Fisherman

I just do hip-hop because I love to do it.

- Cam'ron

Love, Because, I Love, Hip-Hop

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.

- Cam'ron

Love, My Life, Through, Hip-Hop

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.

- Cam'ron

Good, Me, Had, Conversation

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.

- Cam'ron

Love, Song, Play, Tool

They've got a great tool in the Internet. If you've really got a good movement, you can see who likes you.

- Cam'ron

Good, Great, Got, Tool

I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me to do that.

- Cam'ron

Want, Big, Influenced, God Bless

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.

- Cam'ron

Born, I Was Born, Max, Invented

What people have to realize is this: You have rappers who are popular or whatever for the time being, but that don't mean you necessarily want to dress like them. You may have a guy who sells five million records; do you want to dress like him? When you see me, you think you may want to dress like that guy because that guy is fly.

- Cam'ron

Dress, Records, Guy, Rappers

You gonna ask me who I compare myself to? Nobody. I don't think nobody can really mess with me as far as flyness or anything that I'm doing.

- Cam'ron

Doing, Think, Compare, As Far As

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.

- Cam'ron

Think, Great Example, Jay, Rise

With music, you've got to find ways to get paid again, 'cause all the cool kids in junior high school and high school, they think you're wack if you pay for music.

- Cam'ron

Cool, Think, Again, Junior

To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.

- Cam'ron

Want, Sometimes, Active, Shell

If you don't stay up with technology, you're gonna fall out of the loop and not make any money.

- Cam'ron

Technology, Gonna, Any, Loop

To me, any publicity is good publicity.

- Cam'ron

Good, Me, Any, Publicity

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.

- Cam'ron

Go, Like, Beef, Respond

I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the city.

- Cam'ron

City, New, New York City, Organizations

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.

- Cam'ron

Newspaper, Wear, Use, Straw

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.

- Cam'ron

Stupid, Promoting, Makes, Calling

All-Star Weekend always treats me great. I love the atmosphere that comes with it.

- Cam'ron

Love, Always, All-Star, Treats

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.

- Cam'ron

Love, Pink, Doing, Wore

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.

- Cam'ron

Wearing, Rap, Comprehend, Epic

When I did pink, I did it so I wouldn't be dressing like everybody else.

- Cam'ron

Pink, Dressing, Everybody, Everybody Else

I'm a caterer, interior decorator - a lot of hobbies people don't know I do.

- Cam'ron

Know, Lot, Decorator, Hobbies

I'm the gorgeous gangster.

- Cam'ron

Gorgeous, Gangster

I'm a fashion icon.

- Cam'ron

Icon, Fashion

Jay Z and Nas is probably my favorite rap beef because Nas was kinda quiet for a while.

- Cam'ron

Beef, Rap, Kinda, Jay

I won't just give up anything to anybody because they're waving a gun around.

- Cam'ron

Gun, Give, Anybody, Waving

When I do a song, it is more or less for the radio because I've got to do it - that's what I have got to do to win - I always go home and write two street songs.

- Cam'ron

Song, Always, Go Home, More Or Less

Go to school and get your education and follow your dreams.

- Cam'ron

Education, School, Get, Your Dreams

I think I'm the best at everything that I do. I may be biased because it's me. But if you ask me that, that's what I'm going to tell you.

- Cam'ron

Think, I Think, May, Biased

There's nothing really to talk about with the police. I mean, for what?

- Cam'ron

Mean, Nothing, About, Police

I won't talk to the D.C. police.

- Cam'ron

Talk, Police

If you just freestyle, everybody is gonna go, 'Freestyle.'

- Cam'ron

Go, Everybody, Gonna, Freestyle

I wear pink whether the public sees it or not. Whether I had a sneaker or not, I'd still be wearing pink.

- Cam'ron

Pink, Still, Public, Wearing

I'm not gonna sit back and listen to somebody who listens to 3LW all day.

- Cam'ron

Back, All Day, Gonna, Listens

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.

- Cam'ron

Reason, Give, Maybe, Beef

I've never started beef with anybody that didn't start with me first.

- Cam'ron

Start, Never, Anybody, Beef

I don't mess with Mase no more, because me, personally, I just go by a different standard than people.

- Cam'ron

Go, More, Standard, Personally

Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music.

- Cam'ron

Music, Prove, Everybody, Basically

I roll with the punches.

- Cam'ron

Roll, Punches

I'm Mr. Romance.

- Cam'ron

Romance, Mr

I went to Manhattan Center High School.

- Cam'ron

School, High, Center, Manhattan

I'm happy to see somebody from the urban community that could go out and make a half-a-billion dollars.

- Cam'ron

Happy, Go, Could, Urban

You always gotta take advantage when you can spend time with your kids.

- Cam'ron

Always, Take, Advantage, Gotta

You can't be going through life expecting everything. You gotta have discipline.

- Cam'ron

Through, Going, Expecting, Gotta

Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times.

- Cam'ron

Music, Always, Times, Gonna

You want to stay grounded, but you need to keep the music growing.

- Cam'ron

Music, Growing, Need, Grounded

I wanted to stand out and look different. It wasn't nothing that was done purposely, or I was going to be the guy who wears pink forever. It was something for me to stand out.

- Cam'ron

Pink, Nothing, Going, Wears

I loved Muggsy Bogues when he was in the league.

- Cam'ron

Loved, He, League

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.

- Cam'ron

Pink, Away, Before, T-Shirts

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.

- Cam'ron

Checking, Took, Albums, Album

I always grow, every album.

- Cam'ron

Grow, Always, Every, Album

You like me, or you hate me. There's really no in between.

- Cam'ron

Me, You, Like, Hate

It just feels good when I give people sneakers.

- Cam'ron

Give, Just, Feels, Sneakers

Everything is a catwalk for me. I walk to the store, and that's a catwalk.

- Cam'ron

Walk, Me, Everything, Store

When you constantly working, working, you don't really get to appreciate the fans and people loving your stuff.

- Cam'ron

People, Your, Really, Constantly

The thing is, with me, my life is a catwalk.

- Cam'ron

Me, My Life, Thing, Life Is A

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