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

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

Back Like That (makeitpop), Sunday, 14 March 2010 09:51 (fifteen years ago)

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

dylannn, Sunday, 14 March 2010 10:05 (fifteen years ago)

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

grebo bryson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 14 March 2010 10:06 (fifteen years ago)

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

dylannn, Sunday, 14 March 2010 10:07 (fifteen years ago)

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

grebo bryson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 14 March 2010 10:09 (fifteen years ago)

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

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 14 March 2010 10:09 (fifteen years ago)

welcome back makeitpop

k3vin k., Sunday, 14 March 2010 17:40 (fifteen years ago)

This record is phenomenal.

winnebago taco, Sunday, 14 March 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)

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

Back Like That (makeitpop), Monday, 15 March 2010 03:13 (fifteen years ago)

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

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 March 2010 03:14 (fifteen years ago)

Oh come on.

Back Like That (makeitpop), Monday, 15 March 2010 03:17 (fifteen years ago)

makeitstop

hacksaw jim suggban (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 15 March 2010 03:33 (fifteen years ago)

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.

winnebago taco, Monday, 15 March 2010 03:41 (fifteen years ago)

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

Back Like That (makeitpop), Monday, 15 March 2010 03:50 (fifteen years ago)

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

hacksaw jim suggban (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 15 March 2010 04:18 (fifteen years ago)

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

k3vin k., Monday, 15 March 2010 04:19 (fifteen years ago)

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

"I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Monday, 15 March 2010 04:25 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Back Like That (makeitpop), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

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

ciderpress, Monday, 21 March 2011 02:29 (fourteen years ago)

lol my initial post itt threw me off

blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Monday, 21 March 2011 02:32 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

not Jamaican but I gave her my jerk sauce

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 January 2013 14:24 (twelve years ago)

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"

The Reverend, Monday, 21 January 2013 03:44 (twelve years ago)

Love this album

Raymond Cummings, Monday, 21 January 2013 05:03 (twelve years ago)

Dipset all day, every day.

winnebago taco, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 00:40 (twelve years ago)

six years pass...

is this a classic or a relic

ciderpress, Friday, 28 June 2019 15:19 (five years ago)

It’s both

josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 28 June 2019 18:27 (five years ago)

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

Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, 28 June 2019 18:34 (five years ago)

killa cam is a classic for sure

like the track that samples hill street blues

Vapor waif (uptown churl), Friday, 28 June 2019 21:06 (five years ago)

her wrists is wrong

j., Friday, 28 June 2019 21:14 (five years ago)

lol cam’ron

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

brimstead, Saturday, 29 June 2019 00:11 (five years ago)

seven months pass...

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

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 February 2020 04:19 (five years ago)

two months pass...

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

genital giant (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 April 2020 03:44 (five years ago)

two years pass...

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.

josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 13 January 2023 12:56 (two years ago)


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