Purple Haze

On Purple Haze, the long awaited followup to his platinum selling Roc-A-Fella debut "Come Home With Me", Cam puts it down like only he can. From the mixtape banger "Killa Cam", to the certified street anthems "Get Em Girls" & "Shake", to the radio hits "Hey Lady" & the new single "Lord You Know" feat. Jaheim, "Purple Haze" continues Cam's legend. Featuring all-star production from the Heatmakers, Kanye West & Justin Blaze & appearances from the entire Dip Set Crew - as well as Jaheim, Twista, & G-Unit's Young Buck, Cam'ron delivers his most diverse & creative album to date, while keeping it hot for the streets.

Cam'ron's records command admiration from a wide spectrum of hip-hoppers: conscious to crunk to gangsta. Cam and his Dipset stick to the same production formula (on "Get Down," for example) that graced his previous monster hit, "Oh Boy": sped-up samples and lots of hooks. Therefore, it seems only natural that he would team up with Kanye West--another rap duke who's taken this style to the bank--and on "Dip-Set Forever" and "Down and Out" they share sped-up samples together. But if drugs (using, selling, or importing) and sexploits aren't your thing, Purple Haze may come off a bit lyrically linear. Cam'ron also plunders pop-culture samples ranging from the Hill Street Blues TV theme ("Harlem Streets") to Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Fun" ("Girls"), often to questionable effect. "Adrenaline," however, teams two MCs with the freakiest flows on the planet, Twista and Psycho Drama, to produce menacing, low-BPM G-funk at its finest. --Dalton Higgins