Can we please talk about how amazing Cam'ron's Purple Haze is?

The first half is nearly perfect., but the un-eveness of this album somehow makes it even better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRPbPtGFqU

if only there was some place on the internet to talk about cam'ron's purple haze

i treat bitches straight up like
simon says
open vagina, put ya legs behind ya head
cop me air 1s, hon'
lime and red
you got pets? me too
mines are dead
doggie, fox, minks, that's necessary
accessories, my closet's pet semetary

which one of those is gonna be surfboard's new display name

this album is hilarious. cam'ron is a terrible rapper, but he really makes me laugh. it's weird because obv he thinks he's a good rapper and i guess his real "fans" (some of them live on my block in harlem, but i'm hoping to move to greenpoint by next year) think he has some sort of talent, and i guess they don't realize that he's really just silly and good for laughs

welcome back makeitpop

This record is phenomenal.

I don't see how being silly and good for laughs makes a rapper "terrible. Obviously, his outrageous lines are a big part of his personae, but what stands out most to me in this album is how he alternates between sounding supremely confident and uncomfortably vulnerable.

And I get it cheaper, I cop bricks like sneakers
And if the cops come, I just hit amnesia
But I give you an earful, it's tearful
Told my mother I hustle, and she said be careful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKFNrgG1T5A&fmt=18

yeah that's pretty much the only line like that on the album

Oh come on.

makeitstop

Cock and spray
hit you from a block away.
Drinkin' sake on a Suzuki,
we in Osaka Bay.

That is fantastic. And a few lines later, he's playing it like "Bill Cosby, pourin' in the puddin'." He's on fire, for much of this record. Love the absurdist, insular overdubs, too. Nothing like Killa spitting back and forth with...Killa. Talking about shit and telling jokes that nobody else seems fully to understand. Awesome.

My favorite intro:
You tryin' to get that paper. Wifey like it one minute...next minute she dont
man. You know they at home watching Lifetime on the internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gwYEdOTcDI&feature=PlayList&p=191A088A66E6E61D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=24&fmt=18

AND!

Lookin' back on school
Arts and crafts
Fuck half the staff
Beat up half the class
I was like Dr. Dre though
I have to laugh
Nigga wit an attitude
Meet me after math

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/30049yu045.gif

makeitstop

― hacksaw jim suggban (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:33 PM (Yesterday)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=718330&boardid=77&threadid=67332 - one of my personal faves

that a 77 thing? any chance someone could unlock that board for a dude?

I absolutely love how Cam's default reaction to almost everything is this feigned aggravated disgust.
Like this ad lib in Harlem Streets:

Turn her on, lift her arm, notice that her wrists is wrong (what's this on your arm? Pshhhhh)

Cracks me up every time.

ok i am way late on this record but :))))

lol my initial post itt threw me off

not Jamaican but I gave her my jerk sauce

lol my initial post itt threw me off

― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Sunday, March 20, 2011 7:32 PM Bookmark

ha i just read this and was like "wut"

Love this album

Dipset all day, every day.

is this a classic or a relic

It’s both

Still love it

It's more then shrimps, it's whores and pimps (pimps)
The difference in our crimes, yours attempts
Attempt burglary, attempt theft you just begun
I'm grand theft auto, rackets here, larceny, conspiracy
Murder one, electric chair I don't deserve the fun
But I get the dough, shit I might splurger one

killa cam is a classic for sure

like the track that samples hill street blues

her wrists is wrong

lol cam’ron

I still rock “oh boy” all the damn time actually

I be like: "Move! Get out the way"
'Cause I move bricks, get out the yay
And it's 2 clips, I get out to play for
Few chips, I get out and spray

I like the 2nd one too, but obv it don't touch the first. spinnin' it now.

feel like he coulda just made this style his ouevre and released Purple Haze's 1-11 if he'd wanted too, we could be on 12 rn

Goodness, this album is so goddamn *entertaining*

It’s the contrast between the production/rapping that makes it so great. The sped up vocal samples are so… cute! And light! And charming! then cam’ron comes in and he’s a cruel heartless school bully. It’s great.