Camron Quotes

Where I come from, once word gets out that you’ve cooperated with the police, that only makes you a bigger target of criminal violence. That is a dark reality in so many neighborhoods like mine across America. I’m not saying its right, but it’s reality.

I sell bikinis. I sell comforters. I sell Cam’ron pillows. I sell a bunch of things off my likeness, and it all came from music, so it’s definitely a blessing.

To me, any publicity is good publicity.

You got people that come in, one album, two albums, and they’re gone. A lot of people couldn’t take the break I took and come back into the game, and people be checking for them.

I’m Mr. Romance.

I think I’m the best at everything that I do. I may be biased because it’s me. But if you ask me that, that’s what I’m going to tell you.

I’ve never really dissed Ma$e – I just tell you the truth, and if you think he‘s a sucker for that, it ain’t my fault.

I don’t mess with Mase no more, because me, personally, I just go by a different standard than people.

They treat my stuff like wine. It just gets better with time.

They’ve got a great tool in the Internet. If you’ve really got a good movement, you can see who likes you.

I’m just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.

You want to stay grounded, but you need to keep the music growing.

Just growing up in Harlem, it didn’t matter what you had to do to get fresh – you would do it.

If somebody says or does something to me first, then I’ll respond, and I go overboard with it, and it seems like I’m the one that has beef with somebody.

With music, you’ve got to find ways to get paid again, ’cause all the cool kids in junior high school and high school, they think you’re wack if you pay for music.

Certain songs bring me back to certain places I’ve been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.

I don’t care if I am doing music: my son comes with me every weekend. If I’m on the West Coast, he’ll come fly and be with me. If I’m on the East Coast, I get my son every weekend. It doesn’t matter where I’m at – show, no show, whatever. Break or no break. I have my son every summer and every weekend while he’s in school.

Jay Z and Nas is probably my favorite rap beef because Nas was kinda quiet for a while.

There is nothing that will be bigger than a Michael Jordan tribute.

If you don’t stay up with technology, you’re gonna fall out of the loop and not make any money.

The thing is, with me, my life is a catwalk.

There was a time when only athletes had sneakers. Entertainers having sneakers, on any level, is a blessing.

You know what’s dope about social media, the Internet, and stuff in general? It’s that you never really realized before how much love you get, and now you can see people around the country wearing your stuff or wearing your face.

They didn’t know what to do with rap music. You walk into Epic, and they’re wearing straight-leg khakis with creases, Prada shoes with tassels. They couldn’t comprehend where I was coming from.

People are foolish if they think I’m going to lose my head and give up anything to anyone just because someone threatens me.

I roll with the punches.

When I first started wearing pink, it wasn’t nothing I planned on doing or strategized. But people showed me so much love for the pink mink I wore, I had to go out to Pantone and create my own color, which is called Killa Pink.

When you constantly working, working, you don’t really get to appreciate the fans and people loving your stuff.

I didn’t want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda – God bless the dead – influenced me to do that.

I won‘t talk to the D.C. police.

I’m happy to see somebody from the urban community that could go out and make a half-a-billion dollars.

You always gotta take advantage when you can spend time with your kids.

I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the city.

Maybe I beef with people, but it was never random. Anybody you name, I could give you the reason why it happened or whatever led to the beef.

There’s nothing really to talk about with the police. I mean, for what?

I loved Muggsy Bogues when he was in the league.

When I do a song, it is more or less for the radio because I’ve got to do it – that’s what I have got to do to win – I always go home and write two street songs.

I’m not gonna sit back and listen to somebody who listens to 3LW all day.

If you rocking Steve Madden, we won’t go anywhere.

If you just freestyle, everybody is gonna go, ‘Freestyle.’

To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don’t want to do stuff, and sometimes I’m real active.

I’m the gorgeous gangster.

It takes more than a botched carjacking to keep me down.

The movies that I’ve done in the past, everybody’s been like, ‘Cam always gets away in a movie playing Cam.’ So, like, I’m trying to step outside the box a little bit just to show my range in acting.

I never dissed Mase.

Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music – good music.

It doesn’t matter where I’m at – if I’m somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head… It’s just kinda instilled in me.

That’s what I love about the Internet – instead of having to wait on radio to play your song or TV to play your video, I can use the Internet as a tool to get my music out earlier.

I’m from the building where the wave was invented. Downstairs, under me. Ask Bigavel. Y’all call him Bigavel, Max B. I know him as Charlie Rambo. I’m from the building where the wave was invented, and it was invented after I was born.

When we did Diplomats music, it was all genuine, and I think that’s why people love it so much, because they seen a group of kids from Harlem that had almost nothing come up to be platinum-selling artists, and people rode that wave with us.

You can’t be going through life expecting everything. You gotta have discipline.

I just do hip-hop because I love to do it.

I’m looking into making toilet paper. It’s not an option unless you a bum and gotta use newspaper. It’s not an option. Like, it’s an option if you wanna drive a car. It’s an option if you wanna use a straw. It’s an option if you wanna wear a pair of Nikes or Reeboks.

I’m a caterer, interior decorator – a lot of hobbies people don’t know I do.

I’ve never started beef with anybody that didn’t start with me first.

It’s hard to find good business partners and people who do good business the right way.

It just feels good when I give people sneakers.

Go to school and get your education and follow your dreams.

All-Star Weekend always treats me great. I love the atmosphere that comes with it.

I went to Manhattan Center High School.