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Cam’ron’s response to LiAngelo Ball’s claim that he’s a better rapper than him? Classic Killa. The Harlem legend isn’t one to let slights slide, especially when it’s coming from someone he feels isn’t quite on his level. On his digital show, It Is What It Is, Cam went in depth, unleashing one of his signature, no-holds-barred clapbacks. He wasn’t holding back, either. “I’m not doing the Tito Jacksons anymore,” he said, referencing the less well-known members of the Jackson family, insinuating that he’s above engaging with someone he sees as a lesser talent.
The shot wasn’t just about LiAngelo’s rap skills—it was about the audacity of a basketball player-turned-rapper coming for the throne. Cam took a moment to get real about what he thought was behind Gelo’s comments, suggesting that the younger Ball might’ve had a few hits to the head from basketball—“I never seen a basketball player/rapper with CTE,” he said, mocking the idea that LiAngelo’s words were coming from anything other than brain trauma. After all, “There is no other way to explain his comments,” according to Cam.
This whole beef started back when Cam made some offhand remarks about LiAngelo and his brothers, Lamelo and Lonzo, which didn’t sit well with Gelo. He clapped back, saying Cam wasn’t even a top 10 rapper, and it’s been on ever since. With Gelo’s recent success in rap, it’s clear that he’s feeling more confident than ever to throw shots at the Harlem icon. But with Cam’s reputation for shut-downs, it’s anyone’s guess how long this back-and-forth will last.
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LiAngelo Ball’s beef with Cam’ron is one of the more unexpected but entertaining hip-hop storylines. It all started last year when LiAngelo, who had been trying to carve out his own lane in rap, made waves by claiming that Cam’ron wasn’t even a top-10 rapper. His bold statement was that, just like Cam never reached the top of the NBA, Cam didn’t reach the top of the rap game either. The shot didn’t go unnoticed, with Cam’ron firing back on his It Is What It Is Podcast, calling out LiAngelo and making light of his career aspirations.
Fast forward to today, and Gelo—who goes by G3 in the rap world—has had a breakout moment with his track ‘Tweaker’, a hit that has garnered attention and placed him in the spotlight. Recently, in an interview, G3 reflected on his past beef with Cam and doubled down on his belief that he’s a better rapper than the Dipset legend. With his recent success and a new deal with Def Jam Records, G3 feels his talent is finally being recognized, and he’s not backing down from his earlier statement.
It’s safe to say that the Ball family’s presence in sports and entertainment is undeniable, and G3 is out to prove that his skills as a rapper are just as strong as his athletic roots. As he continues his press runs, the world is now watching to see how his music career evolves and if he can truly outshine the established rap veterans he once clashed with.
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Kanye West recently showed some love to the legendary rap group Dipset by posting a photo rocking a fur-hooded coat that perfectly matched a Dipset chain.
The bold move was a clear nod to the iconic crew, which includes Cam’ron, Jim Jones, and Juelz Santana. Kanye, known for his trendsetting fashion, blended high-end style with street culture, paying homage to the influence Dipset has had on the game. In Ye fashion (no pun), the coat and chain combo instantly caught the attention of fans, making people wonder what was the meaning behind it.
This fashion shoutout came amid an interesting time for Dipset, especially with the ongoing tension between Cam’ron and Jim Jones. Recently, Kanye and Jim were spotted together in Tokyo. While Cam’ron and Jim Jones have had their disagreements recently, seeing Kanye with Jim in a public setting suggests a level of unity or at least respect between them (and possibly Ye trying to squash the beef?). Kanye’s gesture goes beyond just fashion; it’s a public acknowledgment of Dipset’s influence, not only in music but in shaping hip-hop culture as a whole.
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Despite any internal beefs within the group, Kanye’s support for Jim Jones shows that even in a divided scene, respect and love can still cross boundaries. Fans are left wondering if this moment signals the beginning of more collaborations or just a passing moment of mutual appreciation. Ye has been a collaborator with the Diplomats in years past, even making an appearance on Cam’ron’s Purple Haze album on the track “Down & Out.”
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The problems between Cam’ron and Jim Jones continue to be a hot topic in Hip-Hop. Maino is doing damage control with Cam’s story about being confronted by Jim, but the internet proves that Cam’ron was right.
As per HipHopDX, Maino paid a visit to Way Up With Angela Yee. During the broadcast the radio personality asked him about the recent headlines Cam’ron made when he said that Jim Jones pressed Maino about some lyrics and Maino didn’t go for it. To hear Maino tell it, Cam’s version of the story wasn’t 100% accurate. “The song he’s talking about is the song that put me in the game, ‘Rumors,’ where I was talking about all the rumors in the industry,” he explained. “The thing about that is I mentioned [Cam’ron] in the song; I didn’t mention Jimmy. Jimmy didn’t like me [because of that] so when we saw each other, we would have these ‘face fights,’ but nothing ever happened.”
Maino went on to detail how he and Jim Jones settled things during a random moment while shopping at a mall in Atlanta. “He didn’t approach me and press me or none of that. We had a conversation. It wasn’t spectacular, nobody swung. Once we started to talk and realized that we had things in common, we were cool from that point on. We’ve been way cooler than we were [enemies] because we didn’t know each other. That was a long time ago.”
During The Breakfast Club DJ Envy also chimed in on the previous tension that Maino and Jim Jones had and told a story where Maino pretended to have a gun on him in order to get the Byrd Gang to back up. During the same segment with Angela Yee he said that DJ Envy’s story was also incorrect. “I think maybe Envy is maybe confusing some incidents that maybe he was a part of because for one I’ve never in my life ever faked like I had a gun for nobody,” Maino added.
But one thing about the Internet, it always keeps receipts. Back in 2021, DJ Envy was a guest on Maino’s podcast Kitchen Talk. During the episode DJ Envy explained how the two originally met on the wrong foot but would soon become close friends. So close they would frequently go to nightclubs together. One night while partying, they see Jim Jones and DJ Envy tells the same story about the fake gun while Maino is sitting right next to him. If body language is any indicator, it seems that Maino was in agreement with Envy’s recollection of that evening.
You can see DJ Envy tell the story with Maino below.
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Cam’ron sparred with Elliott Wilson on a podcast, with the rapper stating that Wilson resembled a “sloppy sandwich.”
The beef between veteran journalist Elliott Wilson and Cam’ron came to a head as the two spoke face-to-face in a debate session on the Talk With Flee podcast. It was the first time the two directly spoke since Wilson’s comments on Cam’ron’s podcast with Mase, It Is What It Is. The first question zeroed in on Wilson’s words. The Rap Radar CEO confessed that he was wrong to disparage Cam’ron and noted how much time and money he had invested in the show. “I was caught in a vulnerable moment and expressed my passion, but that’s not how I ultimately feel,” he said. The “I Really Mean It” rapper, however, wasn’t going to let that ride without a comment.
“When I’m looking at Elliott now, I didn’t know your face look like pepper jack turkey, like the texture of your skin looks like pepper jack turkey,” Cam’ron said at the 5:30 mark of the interview. “It looks like you sweat duck sauce. You look like a sloppy sandwich in the face. Pause, man. My bad, I never really looked at you like that.” He continued, expressing confusion about Wilson’s stance but took no offense. “As far as what Elliott said, I’m not running around trying to be anybody but myself,” he replied. “As far as comparing me to Stephen A. Smith, I take that as a compliment because he’s kind of the standard.”
Wilson’s remarks about Cam’ron and others getting into media were made during his visit to The Rory & Mal Show earlier in the year. “Everybody is media. Cam’ron’s running around like he’s Stephen A. Smith. It’s what we’re dealing with,” Wilson said. “Why is he a sports journalist? Because he has an opinion? He’s got Mase having a job because the bag is there! […] This is the s**t I do well and now everybody wants to do it. I don’t like it.” Cam’ron and Mase swiftly responded in posts to their Instagram account.
The debate would lead to a thoughtful discussion between the two on journalism and today’s media. “If you have millions of followers, you don’t really have to wait to do an interview,” Cam’ron mused. Wilson agreed, saying: “This isn’t the big interview era anymore, it’s about content creation, it’s about adapting to what’s going on.”
Check out the entire interview above.
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Sorry Dipset fans, but it doesn’t seem like a new Diplomats album may ever materialize, as Cam’ron and Jim Jones are currently engulfed in a war of words. Killa Cam has been clapping back at his former Capo over some comments that Jones made during an interview with Justin Laboy just last week.
During the interview, Jim spoke about Cam’s interview with 50 Cent in which they spoke about how 50 was able to get Jim Jones to appear with G-Unit at the height of 50’s back-and-forth with Cam’ron and basically said both 50 and Cam were on his “d*ck” all these years later. While 50 trolled Jimmy with an IG post insinuating his was working with the feds during their investigation of Tekashi 6ix9ine and his former crew, the Nine Trey Gangsters, Cam took to his podcast and aired out Jimmy in a way more personal way.
Grabbing the mic (pause) on his It Is What It Is show, Cam’ron gave Jim a dressing down (pause, again?) and said that the only reason Cam embraced Jim into Dipset was because he was “fanned out” and “begged” Cam and his crew to give him a shot. He even revealed that Mase taught him how to rap as the camera man shifted his focus to Mase, who was eating a bucket of popcorn on his side of the table (LMAO).
“We taught you how to rap, ni**a. How you ran the whole organization?” Cam’ron asked.
But the biggest dart that might’ve hurt Jim was when Cam’ron reminded people that Jim Jones isn’t even from Harlem. While many New Yorkers were already familiar with that fact, some fans might not be aware of Jim’s roots as he screams Harlem as much as any other rapper who actually hails from the Black Mecca in New York.
“We didn’t grow up with you!” Cam stated. “You not from none of that! So you can sit around and act like you been around all this Harlem sh*t and everything. You ever see somebody from Harlem try to act like they’re from Harlem so bad that you gotta keep saying ‘I’m from Harlem’?”
Jim Jones is actually from the Bronx.
Cam then went on to say that Jim tends to beef with guys only to befriend them once they “put hands” on Jim. From C-Gutta (Junior Mafia) to Maino to French Montana, Cam came with the (alleged) tea, b.
Guess we’ll have to wait and see if Jim responds to his former homie.
Check out Cam’ron respond to Jim Jones, and sound off on the situation in the comments section below.
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Cam’ron revealed that he was approached by Mayor Eric Adams to receive the keys, to New York City—after rescinding Diddy’s—but he declined.
As embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams is dealing with the fallout from his federal indictment, Cam’ron shared that his administration offered him the key to the city recently. “You know what’s crazy? This is word to everything I love,” he said to his friend and It Is What It Is co-host Ma$e while discussing the fraud and bribery charges Adams was hit with last week. “Last month, they called me to see if I wanted the key to the city. I said, ‘I don’t want to be involved with nothing. They offered me that shit. They said, ‘Cam, you want the key to the city?’ I was like, ‘That ain’t really up my alley right now. I’m cool with the key to New York City, man.’”
He went on to talk further about how that kind of offer doesn’t have a positive value now: “Where does that get you? I don’t want nothing to do with the keys to the city and the n—-s giving ’em out, the n—-s who previously had ’em. I don’t got nothing to do with the key to the city.” The “I Really Mean It” rapper was undoubtedly referring to Diddy, who received the keys to the city from Mayor Adams in a highly publicized ceremony in Times Square last September. The city rescinded the honor after video of the controversial music mogul assaulting his then-partner Cassie Ventura surfaced in correlation to her lawsuit against Diddy last November. Diddy, aka Sean Combs, returned the key six days after Adams’ office requested them back.
Mayor Adams had also recently given a key to Fat Joe, who received it in the Bronx in August. The “Don Cartagena” artist stated in an Instagram Live video that unnamed people were “upset” over it. “I get the key to the city [on] the 20th and, boy, was that a hard one. Hip Hop got a black eye,” he said at the time. “The mayor and his crew, his right-hand girl, got me the key to the city. Everybody was a little upset. But I don’t know another guy who keeps it realer with the streets of New York than Fat Joe, who feeds more people, opens more businesses. I don’t know what to tell you guys.”
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Shakur Stevenson is the current WBC Lightweight champion and made a successful defense of his title over the weekend against Artem Harutyunyan in Stevenson’s hometown of Newark, N.J. The fight was reportedly not a thrilling one, with Cam’Ron and Ma$e critiquing Stevenson’s performance, promoting a fiery tirade from the boxer online that has now erupted into a true war of words.
Shakur Stevenson, 27, was made aware of the disdain that not only fight fans but his corner also noticed on July 6. Many times throughout the fight, Stevenson’s corner pleaded with him to throw punches but Harutyunyan was also relatively inactive. This performance caught the eye of Cam’Ron and Ma$e, who had some things to say on their It Is What It Is sports talk program.
Much of the vitriol from Stevenson landed in the direction of Ma$e, and we’ll share some of the Xitter replies in question in the gallery below. Let’s just say that it’s very much up for Stevenson against the It Is What It Is hosts.
The artist born Mason Betha responded to Stevenson with a menacing drawl letting it be known in so many words that it can turn to beef if it needs to. Killa Cam also added some sauce on top of the brewing beef, telling Stevenson that street boxing isn’t the same as boxing in the ring.
Despite enjoying his recent title defense, Shakur Stevenson has been going off on Xitter, which made Ma$e and Cam’Ron essentially say that the boxer is crashing out.
Check out the chatter and reactions below.
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Cam’ron celebrated Independence Day his own way. The rapper wore O.J. Simpson’s NFL football uniform with pride.
As reported by HipHopDX, the Harlem, New York, native isn’t using the holiday to pay his respects to Amerikkka. On Thursday, July 4, he found himself in Las Vegas for a private party. In signature fashion he threw all cares out the window and wore Orenthal James Simpson’s iconic look to the event. The outfit included O.J.’s Buffalo Bills jersey, pants and even the original helmet two-bar face mask. To further make the cipher complete he carried a football in one hand and wore the Nike Air Jordan Cherry 11 retro sneakers on feet.
“OJ was here!!!! Happy INDEPENDENCE DAY! This ain’t really Our holiday.. But it feels good not to have to answer to nobody!! #FreeNigga #IIWII,” the caption read. While the post seemed to just highlight Cam’ron’s cosplay range some of his followers assume it was a shot at Stephen A. Smith who recently called out BET for celebrating O.J. Simpson during the 2024 BET Awards.
“Did y’all see the in memoriam segment paying tribute to quote, ‘Black excellence,’ that we unfortunately lost this year?” he said on the opening segment of his self-titled show. “There was a notable silence from the crowd when the image of O.J. Simpson appeared on the big screen. You may recall O.J. Simpson died this past April after a battle with cancer. Yes, he is known for being a Hall of Famer on the football field out of USC, and ultimately with the Buffalo Bills in his NFL career, but he was also accused of double murder!”
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Smith also called out that the late great didn’t side with people of color once he became successful but also reminding us of his infamous “I’m not Black, I’m O.J.,” quote. Simpson was a frequent guest on Cam’ron’s sports talk show It Is What It Is. You can see Cam’ron’s outfit below.
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Cam’ron had plenty to say about Anthony Edwards keeping receipts in his latest adidas commercial.
One thing Cam’ron is not here for is people calling him out. The rapper and now sports talk show host had time for the Minnesota Timberwolves phenom and iconic sportswear company.
The open wound left after the Dallas Mavericks made short work of the Timberwolves in the NBA Western Conference Finals hasn’t even healed yet, but that didn’t stop Edwards from dropping a new AD, letting his haters know he is literally keeping receipts.
In the pretty clever spot for his impressive AE 1 signature basketball shows, Edward’s friend reads comments that were printing out of a receipt machine while he continues to practice on his game.
One of those receipts showed the Dipset co-founder saying about Edwards, “To me, he’s an All-Star, but not a superstar yet.” In response, Edwards says, “f*ck buddy.”
Cam’ron’s Petty Was On Another Level
Cam’ron shared the commercial on his Instagram account with the caption, “#Fuckbuddy 😂😂🔥🔥🔥 commercial!! Thx @adidas for the love. And I had antman back this whole time but I’ll address this Monday on the show.. love the attitude tho. Only thing I would say is get a better looking lesbian to read the receipts.”
Oof, why did homie have to catch a stray like that?
Utilizing his popular sports debate show, It Is What Is, Cam’ron had free smoke for the professional hooper and adidas in the form of freestyle over Black Rob’s “Whoa” beat while rocking a Luka Doncic jersey.
“But f**k wrong with Ant-Man, gave him his props, homie got love from me, new commercial, y’all ain’t got love for me,” Killa Cam raps.
Cam’ron wasn’t done there.
He then came with his own receipts in the form of a “documentary” he is making linking adidas brand footwear with memorable sports injuries like Kevin Ware’s gruesome leg injury he sustained while hooping.
He’s so petty.
We hope cooler heads can prevail. It’s kind of lame of Killa Cam to revisit Kevin Ware’s injury in this manner.
You can see reactions to Cam’ron dissing adidas and Anthony Edwards in the gallery below.
1. Petty levels off the charts.