Talking of Jay-Z and his beefs, Cam'ron has been talking to New York radio station Hot 97 about those grievances he has with the Island Def Jam chief. As previously reported, Cam'ron has released a rap slagging off Jay, seemingly relating to a feud that followed the break down of Jay-Z's business partnership with Cam'ron's old mate Damon Dash.
These quotes are pretty hard work, but from what we can make out Cam'ron says his feud with Jay came to a head prior to that aforementioned Power 105.1 concert last October. While that event became known more for Jay-Z making up with past hip hop enemies, Nas in particular, Cam'ron reckons that wasn't the Def Jam boss' original intent. Rather, Jay planned to use the event to dis him and his hop hop crew the Diplomats. However, plans were changed when Jay's people failed to get together enough video footage of the Diplomats to accompany the dissing. Or something like that.
Cam'ron: "The last straw was that station down the dial [the Power 105 gig, when] he supposed to [declare war], where he is supposed to be dissing everybody he had a problem with. So you know leading up to the concert, I got Dame calling me like, 'He's trying to get old footage of you of when you and Jim got jumped and he's trying to find Jim's Catholic school pictures.' So leading up to this concert, we had to get on point, you dig? I don't know whatever he was looking for, you ain't gonna find it."
All clear now? The Jim he mentioned is fellow Diplomat Jim Jones, who was also being interviewed by the radio station. He explained how his crew quickly got away from Universal imprints Roc-A-Fella and Def Jam once Jay-Z had the top job there: "When [Jay-Z] became the President, that was our way out [of Def Jam]. We not with it at all, ya dig, and if you wanna go statistically, not even on just the fire part, just statistically, we sold more records than everybody up at Roc-A-Fella every time we came out with an album. Why would we be with somebody that sell no records statistically? The Roc is over. It's more like a cubic zirconium. The diamond is crumbled."
Despite all the dissing, Cam'ron was keen to stress that he wished for his feud with Jay-Z to remain a war of words telling the station: "At the end of the day, I don't want any violence. I'm trying to avoid it. It don't even make sense to do violence, we just trying to do music".