![]() Sounding at once commercially appealing and true to street life, the album featured additional guest appearances by Usher ("Feels Good") and Jermaine Dupri ("Pimp's a Pimp"). Released in the summer of 1998 and including the previously released tracks "3-5-7" and "Horse and Carriage," Confessions of Fire confirmed Cam'ron's self-assured attitude. "Back then, I was just showing everybody that I'm multi-talented and that I can flip any style." "I was just trying to show people that I can rap," Cam'ron told the Hip Online website about his debut effort. But by the time eight months had passed, during which time a dedicated Cam'ron worked and practiced almost every day, the rapper felt confident about the completed project. During the first few months of recording, admits Cam'ron, he experienced difficulty because he lacked experience writing in the studio. Meanwhile, back in late 1997, Cam'ron commenced work on his debut solo album, Confessions of Fire. With this effort, Cam'ron rose into the R&B top ten and just missed entering the Billboard Top 40. Subsequently, in July, Cam'ron returned with the single "Horse and Carriage," featuring Mase. The latter song provided Cam'ron with his first entry into the Billboard R&B chart in June of 1998. The first was a track with Lil Cease for How to Be a Player entitled "Casanova," followed by "3-5-7," featuring rap star DMX, for the film Woo. One such song, Li'l Kim's "Crush on You," became a platinum-selling single.Īfter earning airplay for his own single, "Pull It," in May of 1998, Cam'ron emerged again for cuts on two movie soundtracks. Prior to recording his own material, Cam'ron introduced himself by writing hip-hop songs for some of the genre's most popular artists. immediately called his partner, Lance "Un" Rivera, who signed Cam'ron on the spot to his new Untertainment label, distributed by Epic Records. Big said, 'yo, you nice, I wanna sign you!'" "He flipped on about twelve or thirteen beats, and I flowed to every one of them. "At the time I met Biggie, he was working on Life after Death, so he had all sorts of fly tracks around his apartment," Cam'ron recalled. "I'm doing it all trying to set trends, not follow them." The now-deceased Notorious B.I.G., introduced to Cam'ron by Mase, likewise recognized the aspiring rapper's talent. "I can be hardcore one minute, slick and laid-back the next," said Cam'ron in a biography for Epic Records that appears on the ARTISTdirect website. ![]() Together, along with the late "Bloodshed," "Killa Cam" (as Cam'ron was then known) and "Murder Mase" established a group called Children of the Corn.įrom there, Cam'ron quickly developed a reputation for his rough-yet-smooth style. Eventually, he turned to rap music, contributing freestyles to mix tapes by old high school friend Mase. Back at home, he turned to hustling and drug dealing on the streets. Not long after he moved to Texas, a less than satisfied Cam'ron gave up his college sports career and returned to Harlem. ![]() He settled for a smaller school, Navarro Junior College, in Texas. But because of his poor academic standing, he was unable to play for a Division I team. ![]() Prior to graduating, Cam'ron received scholarship offers from some of the biggest names in college basketball, among them North Carolina, Duke, Syracuse, Florida, and Southern California. As a student at the Manhattan Center High School for the Arts and Sciences, he excelled in athletics, developing into an All-City and All-American point guard on the basketball team alongside teammate and fellow rapper Mase. Rather than music, Cam'ron grew up pursuing sports. Now a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, Cameron Giles was born in 1976 and raised in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. Featured on several hip-hop compilation albums and film soundtracks, Cam'ron has worked with various rap masters such as Combs, the Notorious B.I.G., and Ol' Dirty Bastard. He has released three full-length albums: Confessions of Fire, 1998 the semi-autobiographical S.D.E., 2000 and Come Home with Me, 2002. Diddy" Combs, Cam'ron's rhymes are confrontational and street-smart, as well as being slick and appealing to mainstream record buyers. Adopting a pop-rap technique often likened to that of Bad Boy Entertainment's Sean "P. In the late 1990s, Harlem's Cam'ron, a former hometown basketball hero turned rap artist, became one of the hottest rising hip-hop artists in the music industry. Addresses: Record company-Roc-A-Fella Records, 79 5th Ave., New York, NY 10012. Education: Briefly attended Navarro Junior College, in Texas. Born Cameron Giles in 1976 in New York, NY son of Fredricka Giles.
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