NEWS!Cam'ron dissing Jay-ZCam'ron Attacks Jay-Z With Dis Track 'You Got It'
01.18.2006 8:08 PM EST
Song even addresses Hov's girlfriend, Beyoncé.
After years of denying an apparent mutual disdain for each other, Cam'ron and Jay-Z appear on the brink of a full-on battle, and MTV News has exclusively obtained a listen to the opening salvo: a Cam dis track against Hov called "You Got It."
The seven-minute cut starts out with Cam outlining five reasons for his attack on Jay, including accusations that the Def Jam president stole the Roc-A-Fella empire and Kanye West from ex-partner Dame Dash as well as the Rocawear clothing line.
Further into the track, Cam spits, "You ain't the only one with big wallets/ Got it/ My sh--'s brolick/ But ya publishing should go to Miss Wallace/ ... Down at Jeezy's video/ I shoulda kissed you on the cheek/ You's a pretty ho'/ I left the label right/ Lotta cats wonder how/ Every time I dis that label I get fined a hundred thou."
In the upcoming March issue of XXL magazine, which features Cam'ron on the cover, the Harlem native sheds light on where things began to fall apart with Jay-Z. "The real problems began when Jay went away and Dame was talking about making me president. When Jay came back, he had an attitude," Cam told the publication. Cam told the publication. "He said to [Beanie Sigel] something to the effect that he didn't feel comfortable with what Dame was trying to do."
Cam'ron also takes time on "You Got It" to address Jay's girlfriend, Beyoncé. "Beyoncé, fiancee?/ Check my second LP/ I might bring her back/ That's your girl, that's your world/ Had the thing f---ing singing 'bout slinging crack!" The clip ends with Cam playing his 2000 collaboration with Beyoncé on the song "Do It Again."
It's not yet clear whether the dis record will appear on Cam's upcoming Killa Season album.
A spokesperson for Jay-Z could not be reached for comment.
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Another Raekwon interview about Cuban Linx 2:The year is 1993. Nine talented hip-hop lovers combine their abilities to form the notorious Wu-Tang Clan. Thirteen years later, after hip-hop cliques around the world were found imitating the Wu blueprint model, the members of this clique are dispersed throughout the country doing their own thing. Even
so, they’re still living and breathing Wu-Tang.Among these nine originators of hip-hop is Raekwon a.k.a. The Chef. Identifying himself with the Wu-Tang Clan and, through the experience,
molding himself into a talented hip-hop artist, Raekwon, today, is preparing for his comeback. Touching up an album, Only Built for Cuban Linx Pt. 2, set to be released in April 2006, Rae has been moving along a path, making right
turns in hip-hop with his music, stopping at red lights in business with his multi-purpose venture, Ice Water Inc., and disobeying speed limits on the streets with his mixtapes. What’s Rae really thinking about? MH2’s Stacy got the dish.
MH2: Your new one’s expected to drop in April. What can Wu-Tang and Raekwon fans expect?
R: Well, number one, what y’all can expect from me is to come back and really get real cold with everything right now. I got this album called Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. 2 coming out. This is a very big, much-anticipated album. Basically, that was my first album that I started in the game with. You know, it’s 10 years later, people want Part 2 so that’s what I’ve been working on. And you know, right now, the Clan, we’ve all been huddling up in our own little ways, supporting the record.
MH2: So you all keep in touch?
R: Yeah, I mean we always keep in touch. We don’t see each other too much, but we definitely talk though.
MH2: What makes this album different from your past one?
R: Because, you know, the past one I’d just been doing what I’ve been doing: rhyming and making songs. But this one is more to the street, it’s harder. It’s me really making sure everything is dotted - the Is are dotted, the Ts are crossed. You know, me and RZA are back in effect together, as far as a
collaborated effort. It’s going to be ill. To me, this one is better than the first one. The only reason I say that is that my ability to rhyme is better and I get what I get into better. It’s just that I feel stronger. You know, as you get older, you get mature and you start knowing what really counts to make it work, and that’s what I’ve just been doing.
MH2: Besides that album, what else are you focused on?
R: We’ve just been doing underground music, keeping mixtapes out on the streets. That’s the new thing now so you just gotta keep your ear to the streets, and that’s what weve been doing. I’ve got a mixtape CD out now called The Vatican. I ve just been more or less staying on top of this project because this is a very serious project. And, right now, we gotta come to the masses with the fire. So it’s gonna be on.
MH2: What’s up with Wu-Tang? Which members are you tightest with?
R: I’m cool with all of them. (Who do you talk to on a regular basis?) I mean, nah, we don’t talk like that. One thing about us, we’re a real family. We’re a family that’ll chill, we come and go, but at the same time we know each other is alright ‘cause there’s always somebody around that’s around either one of us. So, you know, we may talk three times in one month, then the next month, we might talk two times a week. So you know, that just
fluctuates anyway. But, you know how that goes, you don’t ever be with your brothers.
MH2: Are any other members making moves? We’re hearing from you. We’re hearing a lot of new stuff from Ghostface. Anybody else moving forward?
R: Well, you know you got Meth working on his album, Deck doing a mixtape, he’s working on his stuff. Everybody’s being prepped on what they gotta do, but they’re just starting at the levels that they started at. We’re all big fish now so it’s like, at the end of the day, you can’t stop a man from going to seek the way that he feels he’s going to be. So everyone’s just been standing up on their own doing their thing.
MH2: Any upcoming collaborations?
R: You know that. You know the crew is on the record, a collabo, and I really wanted to keep that a secret, but you pulled it out of me ‘cause you sexy, you know what I mean, but there you go, you got it out of me. The Clan is on it. Y’all gonna like it.
MH2: Going a little off-topic, how do you feel about ODB’s passing?
R: I mean, you know, I think about him every day and it ain’t easy, but, you know, things happen. I think that it could’ve been any one of us. All I could think about now is just trying to do something and do it with his signature on it and, basically, get back to his family the best way that I could. That’s what it’s about. You know, us being able to just continue the movement we was doing and still support his family because he made this
along with us. We made this together. Actually, he’s the epitome of Wu, for real.
MH2: Are you involved with Wu Latino at all?
R: Yes, absolutely. We all in the same building. Wu Latino is just another branch of us just displaying our cultural styles with other music artists.
MH2: I know RZA is involved with a lot of the production and is working closely with them, but are you looking to collaborate with the artists?
R: Of course, I mean you know, its like this: anybody that comes into our establishment and on our business criteria, it’s like they have to be a part of us, we have to be a part of them because, number one, you’re wearing our badge. And, like I said, a lot of our fans are of different nationalities and I don’t want anyone to think that we forgot that. We respect everything and, at the end of the day, if you’re talented, you can be from wherever, and if you’re a die-hard fan and you know what it’s about, our door is always open to everything. Like I said, this is just one chapter of us doing it on a cultural level now.
MH2: A fan wants to know - can you do “Verbal Intercourse Pt. 2” with Nas on the new album?
R: Wow, tell him I would do that, but if Nas picks up his phone or whatever whatever. One thing about Nas is that Nas is a person that likes to get in touch with people. He don’t really like people to get too much in touch with him. So my whole thing is, I mean there ain’t nothing, no bad vibes with us, but if I could contact him, I’m sure he’s gonna represent for me. But if not, Rae gotta move on, you know. At the end of the day, I’m not gonna go hunt Nas down and get Nas points on something with me if Nas don’t wanna be heard or seen. So that’s the deal. But, when I get my hands on him and I talk to him, y’all gonna know. Either you’re gonna hear it up there or he missed that train. So for my man, it’s like, yo, I’d love to do it. You know
what i mean, Nas, that’s my son right there. He knows what time it is. I was the ***** that told him to put that verse on “Verbal Intercourse.” We’ll see what happens.
MH2: Thanks, Rae.
http://www.morehiphop.com/raekwonfeat.phpCommon news:Common Discusses His Silver Screen Dreams
Ryan Dombal reports:
As more and more hip-hop stars jump off the platinum train in search of mega-million opening weekends and inevitably awkward sex scenes, it's become increasingly clear that the rapper-turned-actor transition can be both fruitful (Mos Def, Tupac, Will Smith) and rotten (50 Cent, Bow Wow, Vanilla Ice).
So when Common dropped off Kanye West's white hot "Touch the Sky" tour to shoot a film a few months back, fan trepidation was understandable. Thankfully, his upcoming flick isn't exactly Roll Bounce 2: Keep 'Em Bouncin'. As the Chicago MC recently told Pitchfork, Smoking Aces-- directed by Narc's Joe Carnahan-- is a "dark comedy/ drama/ action movie based on a magician who becomes a mob guy who's wanted by everybody." Kind of like if David Copperfield and The Godfather had a kid and named it...um...Smoking Aces.
Alongside thespians including Jeremy Piven, Ray Liotta, Ben Affleck, and, uh, Ryan Reynolds, Com plays the magician/ mob guy's right hand man, Sir Ivy, who he described as "a warrior--that quiet killer." And, before you can say Soul Plane, the first-time film star is quick to spit out his assumed silver-spoon big-screen trajectory. "I went to two auditions for this, it's not like I was just given the role," he said. "They want the movie to have credibility. I came in as a new actor, not as a hip-hop artist trying to be an actor."
Drawing inspiration from award-season heavies like Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, and Sean Penn, as well as films including The Usual Suspects, City of God, and Don't Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood ("I like when the Muslim dude is like, 'Black princess, queen of the Nile, sister of the earth...tap that white girl over there for me'"), the distinguished MC generally feels happy with his debut performance.
Though there was one slight dilemma: "At one point, something happens to my eye in the movie so they needed me to wink my left eye and keep my right eye open...but I couldn't do it. Everybody else on the set could-- even in the crew." Tinky Winky jokes aside, Smoking Aces is set to burn big this summer.
While he's currently reading more scripts in hopes of landing another major role, Chi-town's finest isn't planning on hanging up his mic anytime soon. Banking once again on the peerless production prowess of Be brothers Kanye West and J Dilla, Common is tentatively aiming for a fall release for his next album, Finding Forever. And there's another bulletproof beat master on his wishlist: Dr. Dre. The pairing may not be as unlikely as you think-- both artists reside under the same Universal Music Group mega-umbrella. "I'm going to try to pull that label hook up eventually," said the rapper.
Hip-hop fans can also look out for a new Dilla-produced Common track called "So Far to Go", featuring r&b's own Howard Hughes, D'Angelo. "We did a remix for 'Go' but it ended up being a brand new song," explained Com. "It's a sexy type of song...we may put it on a re-release of Be or a soundtrack." A soundtrack to Smoking Aces, possibly? Sounds synergys-tastic!
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