Cam'ron: I was dead broke when I signed to Roc-A-Fella, lost 10K check

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Wu tang nikkas ran through Ohio

Even recruited Ohio street dudes into the Wu Tang organization ( Killa Army)

RZA family from there.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

Cam a known liar.

But if you broke after multiple successful albums what kinda deals you signed nikka?

I remember during his IG live when he was talking about Jim Jones he said a chick that worked for Sony at the time showed him where all his money was going and they fukked him over completely

 

[CoCKy GeNiuS]

Say what you want about the music but money is so much better now for artists

An artist like Cam two albums in, with multiple hit records, would be making a a shyt load of money doing shows now.

There's so many stories of artists in the 80s and 90s with hit records and platinum albums still living with their parents. Now artists have regional hits and make 20K a month doing shows alone.

I strongly feel like this is why the older artists dislike these new ones.

Sitting back looking at Meek Mill or even Tee Grizzley drop a Bentley Truck paid in full from show money and merchandise crushes their souls.

Lil Yachty set for life, Lil Uzi bringing in M's from show money when he hasn't even dropped an Official Album.

Anybody denying that these Young Niggs are eating more than artists back in the day are in denial.

 

[Family Lives Matter]

I thought this was well known?

 

[FreshAIG]

I strongly feel like this is why the older artists dislike these new ones.

Sitting back looking at Meek Mill or even Tee Grizzley drop a Bentley Truck paid in full from show money and merchandise crushes their souls.

Lil Yachty set for life, Lil Uzi bringing in M's from show money when he hasn't even dropped and Official Album.

Anybody denying that these Young Niggs aren't eating more than artists back in the day are in denial.

Facts. Like if these artists came out in the 90s, they'd be like these forgotten nikkas that sold 100K albums and just disappeared off the face of the Earth. Now they're millionaires without a single song in rotation at the radio. I remember Schoolboy Q said he was getting 15 K a show before his album dropped. Big Daddy Kane was getting 17 K a show at his peak.

 

[MalikReloaded]

When I heard Q-Tip say he was still sleeping in his mom's living room after The Low End Theory sold 1,500,000.

I would've been SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At $12 an album back then them cacs probably made almost $20,000,000 off them while probably giving them $100,000 total to split

 

[richaveli83]

 

[MalikReloaded]

Tribe made around 30k each off that album. If you know the cost of living in NY then you know 30k isn't shyt.

Cam was broke before the Roc deal because Untertainment folded and he got absorbed into a machine that didn't give a fukk about him until Dame ran up in the Sony building barking on people for him. I think that's when Cam realized that he had to diversify his business.

How did I know lol....they gave them nikkas like $100,000 total...split three ways that's $30,000 then you pay taxes on it and you could've made more driving the NYC subway

Cacs out here building generational wealth off these black men buying houses out in Nantucket and the Hamptons while giving the creative force behind these hits less money than a public school janitor.

 

[Momentum]

lol @ two gold albums. nikka had two flops.

SDE did not flop

 

[Redguard]

When I heard Q-Tip say he was still sleeping in his mom's living room after The Low End Theory sold 1,500,000.

 

[PikaDaDon]

Thought Killa Cam was gonna come out with a sexual harassment story.

 

[MalikReloaded]

Then why did he go @ Jay after he said he made Cam a millionaire? Makes Cam look like a lame.

Probably because in his eyes Dame pulled the strings for him and opened doors for him, not Jay.

From everyone's commentary back then, Jay didn't come to office whatsoever. He was boss of Rocafella only in name as Dame did everything and Jay focused on Jay's career only. Jay got involved with the business side later. So Cam was probably like nikka you did nothing for me Jay wouldn't even appear in Cam's video when all of New York City was begging for it.

 

[MalikReloaded]

Cam a known liar.

But if you broke after multiple successful albums what kinda deals you signed nikka?

A Raping You Records kinda deal

 

[jaguar paw]

Yeah, I heard that name a lot when I lived in Columbus. Chubbs, Papa Joe, Gucci, etc. Cam had a lil club on Main St around the early 2000s

Didn’t that club get shot the fukk up?

 

[FreshAIG]

How did I know lol....they gave them nikkas like $100,000 total...split three ways that's $30,000 then you pay taxes on it and you could've made more driving the NYC subway

Cacs out here building generational wealth off these black men buying houses out in Nantucket and the Hamptons while giving the creative force behind these hits less money than a public school janitor.

Could've? shyt MTA Conductors make 70-100K yearly with benefits. LOL. They would've been waaaay better off back then. Obviously it worked out, especially for Tip, who got rich off music but it took a long time.