Cam'ron

Cam'ron at an appearance

Cam'ron (born February 4, 1976 in Harlem , New York ; real name Cameron Ezike Giles ), also Killa Cam , is an American rapper .

biography

Giles grew up in Harlem / New York. In Harlem he founded the group Children of the Corn with rappers Ma $ e (then Murder Mase), Big L and Bloodshed . They separated after a short time after Bloodshed died in a car accident.

However, it was through Mase that Giles met The Notorious BIG , who introduced him to his business partner Lance “Un” Riviera. This gave Giles a record deal with his label Untertainment, whose releases were distributed by Epic Records . Under the name Cam'ron some singles were released from May 1998 , of which Horse & Carriage featuring Mase was the most successful. Later that year, Cam'ron's debut album Confessions of Fire was released, which was awarded a gold record by the RIAA . His second full- length player, SDE , followed in 2000, the abbreviation for “Sports, Drugs and Entertainment” standing for “Sports, Drugs and Entertainment”.

Cam'ron then moved to Jay-Z's Roc-a-Fella Records , where he released his most successful album Come Home with Me , which went platinum by the RIAA. In the course of this success, his collective The Diplomats established itself in the hip-hop scene, around which a hype arose in the mid- 2000s and which set some trends with their own clothing and rap styles , from which Jim Jones and Juelz Santana in particular benefited commercially .

After the release of Cam'ron's fourth studio album, Purple Haze , there was a disagreement with Jay-Z and Cam'ron left Roc-a-Fella. On the one hand, an incident in 2006 caused a stir in which Cam'ron was shot in a carjacking attempt on him, but still managed to drive to the hospital with a gunshot wound in his arm and on the other hand the Diss You Gotta Love It , addressed to Jay-Z. Although the latter generated a great response in internet forums and on mixtapes , the associated album Killa Season - which was accompanied by a direct-to-DVD film of the same name - was still able to position itself at number 2 on the Billboard 200 , but not reach the sales figures of its predecessors .

This development continued with the work Crime Pays , which appeared in 2009 , and then Cam'ron only released the two collab albums Heat in Here, Vol. 1 and Gunz n 'Butta with Vado in 2010 and 2011 .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1998	Confessions of Fire	-	-	-	UK95 (1 week) UK	US6th gold (10 weeks)US	First published: July 21, 1998 Sales: + 500,000
2000	SDE	-	-	-	-	US14 (9 weeks) US	First published: September 19, 2000
2002	Come home with me	-	-	-	UK87 silver (3 weeks)UK	US2 platinum (28 weeks)US	First published: May 14, 2002 Sales: + 1,060,000
2004	Purple Haze	-	-	-	-	US20th gold (14 weeks)US	First published: December 7th, 2004 Sales: + 500,000
2006	Killa season	-	-	-	-	US2 (10 weeks) US	First published: May 16, 2006
2009	Crime Pays	-	-	-	-	US3 (8 weeks) US	First published: May 12, 2009
2019	Purple Haze 2	-	-	-	-	US180 (1 week) US	First published: December 20, 2019

Collab albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2010	Heat in Here Vol. 1	-	-	-	-	US146 (1 week) US	First published: May 25, 2010 with Vado
2011	Gunz n 'Butta	-	-	-	-	US78 (2 weeks) US	First published: April 19, 2011 with Vado

EPs and mix tapes

• 2004: The Purple Mixtape of Rocafella's Rap
• 2004: Purple Haze Mixtape
• 2007: 50 Killa Season
• 2007: Public Enemy # 1
• 2009: Boss of All Bosses (with DJ Drama & Vado)
• 2010: Boss of All Bosses 2 (with DJ Drama & Vado)
• 2010: Boss of All Bosses 2.5 (with DJ Drama & Vado)
• 2011: Boss of All Bosses 3 (with DJ Drama & Vado)
• 2012: UNLostFiles (with Vado)
• 2012: UNLostFiles 2 (with Vado)
• 2013: Ghetto Heaven, Vol. 1
• 2014: 1st of the Month, Vol. 1
• 2014: 1st of the Month, Vol. 2
• 2014: 1st of the Month, Vol. 3
• 2014: 1st of the Month, Vol. 4
• 2014: 1st of the Month, Vol. 5
• 2014: 1st of the Month, Vol. 6
• 2015: Berner & Cam'Ron "Contraband"

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1998	Horse & Carriage Confessions of Fire	-	-	-	UK12 (4 weeks) UK	US41 (17 weeks) US	First published: April 13, 1998 feat. Mase
1999	Let Me Know S.DE	-	-	-	-	US99 (2 weeks) US	First published: June 1999
2000	What Means the World to You S.DE	-	-	-	-	US83 (10 weeks) US	First published: November 2000
2002	Oh boy come home with me	DE70 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	UK13 (9 weeks) UK	US4 (21 weeks) US	First release: April 2nd, 2002 feat. Juelz Santana
	Hey Ma Come Home with Me	DE58 (7 weeks) DE	-	CH81 (1 week) CH	UK8th silver (10 weeks)UK	US3 platinum (21 weeks)US	First release: August 6, 2002 feat. Juelz Santana
2004	Girls Purple Haze	-	-	-	UK25 (3 weeks) UK	-	First release: 2004 feat. Mona Lisa
2005	Down and Out Purple Haze	-	-	-	-	US94 (1 week) US	First release: January 11, 2005 feat. Kanye West and Syleena Johnson

Other singles (selection)

• Welcome to New York City - feat. Jay-Z and Juelz Santana
• Touch It or Not - feat. Lil Wayne
• Killa Cam
• Killa Season - feat. Juelz Santana
• Wet Wipes - Jay-Z Diss
• Get'em daddy
• Purple Haze Remix - feat. Lloyd Banks and Jadakiss
• Curtis - 50 Cent Diss
• Glitter
• Get in Ohio
• My job
• Cookies 'n' Apple Juice
• Dipsh * ts - feat. A-Trak
• So Bad - feat. Nicki Minaj and Yummy Bingham

Singles as guest musicians

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2003	Boy (I Need You) charm bracelet	DE73 (3 weeks) DE	-	CH78 (7 weeks) CH	UK17 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 24, 2003 feat. Mariah Carey
2005	Gone Late Registration	-	-	-	-	US18 (1 week) US	First release: August 30, 2005 feat. Kanye West and Consequence

Further guest contributions (selection)

• Certified Gangstas RMX - Jim Jones feat. The Game, Cam'Ron and Bezel
• Fantastic Four - DJ Clue feat. Cam'Ron, Big Punisher, Noreaga and Canibus

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	3,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	-	-	260,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2

Movies

• 2002: The Streets of Harlem (Paid in Full)
• 2005: State Property 2 (supporting role)
• 2006: Killa Season
• 2013: Percentage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cam'ron - laut.de-biography. laut.de , accessed on February 5, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Steve Huey: Mase - Artist Biography. AllMusic , accessed February 5, 2017 . 
3. ↑ The Diplomats - laut.de-biography. laut.de , accessed on February 5, 2017 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

• Official website
• Cam'ron at laut.de
• Cam'ron at Allmusic (English)
• Cam'ron in the Internet Movie Database (English)