Cam'ron has come a LONG ass way from a radio-friendly Roc-A-Fella-recruit slangin' Dame Dash "Gucci'n'girls" party anthems. All due respect to Jim Jones, Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey, through his involvement with DipSet, Cam'ron's gone from big-label punk to underground figurehead. There's a reason dude's always in purple.
With "Get It In Ohio," the second single off of his fourth-coast reppin' Crime Pays (out May 5, fingers crossed) Cam's on a giant leap forward. The first video, "I Hate My Job," stares hard times in the eye, putting Cam in the role of an unemployed, bad-luck Midwesterner.
And it's easy to make a case for "Get It In Ohio" being a continuation of that story. Frustrated Ohioan drops the classifieds and gets to thuggin'. Crime Pays. 1+2=3. But isn't it more fun to imagine that this time around, Cam's cast himself in a bigger role? Watch "Get It In Ohio" and tell me that Cam's not playing the recession itself. The economy. The E-Cam-omy. Just look at this verse.
"I'm the author for gangsters, tough guys/ did the whole Ohio, but I started off a Buckeye.
Columbus to Natti, them towns I raped 'em/ few clowns was hatin', moved my pounds to Dayton...If you know like I know, you should lie low, Killa/ I used to get it in Ohio, don’t forget the Chi though/ guns are like a pyro, you keep playin' you will look like a gyro."
See?! Turnin' beef into cold cuts, pullin' duffel bags full of cash! Killa! No snitchin'. Watch.
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