Top 50 Camron Quotes

You like me, or you hate me. There’s really no in between.

Dipset is Dipset, but it’s over.

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.

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

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.

To be honest, the real money is in merchandising and performances.

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

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

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 never dissed Mase.

I wanted to stand out and look different. It wasn’t nothing that was done purposely, or I was going to be the guy who wears pink forever. It was something for me to stand out.

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.

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

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

I’m the gorgeous gangster.

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

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.

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.

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 wear pink whether the public sees it or not. Whether I had a sneaker or not, I’d still be wearing pink.

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

No record company in the world would say, ‘We’re not promoting if you keep calling somebody a snitch.’ They know what makes money. A record company would never be that stupid. Ever.

When I did pink, I did it so I wouldn’t be dressing like everybody else.

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

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

I listen to ‘Purple Haze’ a lot. If I’m in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes.

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 just think that rap takes way more slack than the video games and the movies. We don’t make guns. Smith and Wesson makes guns. Like, white people make guns and bullets, and all we’re doing is rhyming and putting words together.

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

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

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.

I’m Mr. Romance.

Seeing Jay Z’s just a great example of somebody who comes from a ghetto to rise to where he’s at. I think… he done a great job.

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.

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.

I’m a fashion icon.

I roll with the punches.

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

I won’t talk to the D.C. police.

You can get away with black sweatpants for a day or two, but pink is something you wear for one day: the day before you go to the washer or cleaners. When people wear pink t-shirts for three straight days, it disturbs me. It aggravates me.

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

When I was young, I wanted to be like the rappers. I remember being in junior high and wanting a fisherman hat and a link because EPMD had one. I wanted to wear Adidas because Run-DMC wore Adidas. As I came into my own, I just wanted to do me.

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

I loved Muggsy Bogues when he was in the league.

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

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

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.

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.

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.