Cam’ron sounds off on Jim Jones on “It Is What It Is”

[Braman]

by the time crime pays/cookies and apple juice came out ballin was 3 years old and jim jones was having his reputation ran through the mud by max b and french while getting clowned for selling 17k on a byrd gang CD.. not sure why yall are making it seem like jim was some big dog who leveled up on cam

Ngga you do know we can look this stuff up right?

Crime pays dropped in 2009. At that time, Jim dropped Prey 4 Reign. It had Pop champagne on it which—-thanks to @Ed MOTHERfukkING G —-we know it CHARTED. Crime pays did 45k first week. P4R sold 42k.

So the point isn’t to nitpick Jim vs cam fame, the point is ….how was it even close. If I fight Floyd and he barely beats me in 12, ngga i won

So when you say ‘act like Jim leveled up on cam’, he did. In no scenario should Jim and cam be equals but it happened and lasted for a minute until IIWII. Which is why even to this day Jim has more IG followers.

 

[spliz]

Hell Rell was aight though

I agree about JR Writer. Never liked him.

JR verse in this one of the best verses ever spit by a Dipset member.

 

[Braman]

East type ain’t from Harlem tho no funny. lol.

I think that influenced me not fw him. Buddy played hoops at Springbrook in MD. And not the Baltimore type MD he was ina. Good school good area…. He tries to erase MD from his story

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Tagging me twice to defend fukkin Jim Jones is some real weirdo shyt

 

[ISO]

I think that influenced me not fw him. Buddy played hoops at Springbrook in MD. And not the Baltimore type MD he was ina. Good school good area…. He tries to erase MD from his story

Yea but he’s not from there

He was nice in ball and got sent to MD to stay out of trouble and hoop. He went to Manhattan Center (same school as Cam & Mase) his freshman year.

Dave never hid nothing either bro talked about all this shyt he used to always talk about being cool with KD brother. He got a connection to a lot of places found out dude even lived on Hoe Ave in the Bronx

 

[Awesome Wells]

I think that influenced me not fw him. Buddy played hoops at Springbrook in MD. And not the Baltimore type MD he was ina. Good school good area…. He tries to erase MD from his story

This.

East from everywhere. Like Biz.

He doesn't like talking about growing up in VA and being in MD because that ain't as a cool of a look. His pops blew that spot up before talking about where he was really from. But dude grew up a nomad.

 

[Controversy]

This.

East from everywhere. Like Biz.

He doesn't like talking about growing up in VA and being in MD because that ain't as a cool of a look. His pops blew that spot up before talking about where he was really from. But dude grew up a nomad.

He even spent time in Philly

Philly stamped tho

 

[Awesome Wells]

He even spent time in Philly

Philly stamped tho

Damn. I ain't even know that.

Dude really from everywhere.

 

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Some people always wanna keep you under their thumb. Imagine your little homie surpassing you first. Tough,but it's understandable,he got the youth energy behind him. But my weed carrier who looks like he could be my uncle too? Oh hell nah,something gotta give

 

[Trajan]

If Jim Jones is from the Bronx why did he never claim it? He’s always claimed Taft projects

Oh shyt that reminds me of this video. They were saying Jim Jones not from there back then

 

[ISO]

Oh shyt that reminds me of this video. They were saying Jim Jones not from there back then

I was just watching that was gonna post it

And Cam was scared to come to East River

That beat came in tuff too

 

[chiefdogg]

I think that influenced me not fw him. Buddy played hoops at Springbrook in MD. And not the Baltimore type MD he was ina. Good school good area…. He tries to erase MD from his story

My fam played ball with him up in MD

 

[FlyGuy]

Even Jim said they didn't meet until they were 13. You must've never been to a kid party before.

For real I got 3rd grade yearbook photos with people I seen in high school and didn’t recognize them

As a kid your world is small. Your focus is limited and just because someone is physically near doesn’t mean they make up any of your memories

Especially when you grow up on blocks with buildings, there’s mad fukking people in ny and being in proximity doesn’t constitute “growing up with someone”

Me and my boys from the building have like 5-6 years on top of what we have with friends from the block, then going into school age, teen age, young adulthood etc.

Maybe it’s a NY thing but there’s definitely layers to saying you grew up with someone or you known them for however long, or even that claiming the block shyt

 

[Duke Dixon]

People move around all the time. There's plenty of other rappers that have lived somewhere else while growing up and they're still associated with one place. It really doesn't matter to me.

There's another Dipset topic I've been wanting to make for awhile. This thread and the Jim Jones been making better music than Cam for 20 years thread got the booth hot for a bit

 

[Joe Sixpack]

I thought Jim Jones was from Taft projects