Cam'ron

The grass is always greener for Harlem-born rapper Cameron Giles. After releasing two albums on Sony Records, he became so determined to quit for a deal elsewhere that he was accused of using physical threats to have his contract torn up. Eventually he succeeded, moving to Roc-A-Fella Records for the release of third album Come Home With Me (2002), which was his most successful to date, selling over a million copies. The next year he formed a group, The Diplomats (also known as Dipset), and released double-album Diplomatic Immunity, which sold over half-a-million. Diplomatic Immunity 2 and fourth solo album Purple Haze (both 2004) were both gold-sellers too, but Cam'Ron was not happy. Again he left his record label in search of a better deal, and believed he'd found one at Asylum. In 2006 he released fifth album Killa Season, to coincide with the release of a film of the same name that he was written, directed and starred in. Neither the album or the film were very successful, and the following year Cam'Ron left his label again. He is now recording his sixth album, this time for SRC Records.

In 2005 Cam'Ron was shot during an attempted carjacking in Washington D.C. Afterwards, he provoked controversy when he told CBS news magazine 60 Minutes that he would not give any information to the police about the culprits because he was not a "snitch", and that to do so would hurt his record sales. Cam'Ron is also known for engaging in feuds with Ma$e, Jay-Z, 50 Cent and fellow Dipset rapper Jim Jones.