New Music: Cam'ron: "Dead the Funeral" [Stream]
Cam'ron's talking a lot and saying nothing new on this track from Kay Slay's new Sign of the Times mixtape, which isn't to say he doesn't have a few nice lines (witness: "We celebrities with guns: shooting stars" and "Piss on your tombstone/ Write on it, 'Told you so'"). The problem is, the guy writes lines like these in his sleep; even his flow here makes it sound like he needs to be woken up to stay on the beat. So when we hear his threats to "shoot the wake up and dead the funeral," it sounds like he's on anger autopilot. Killa Season was a disappointment, and if Cam'ron wants to recapture our imaginations like he did on Purple Haze, he should loosen up and stop trying so hard to look hard. His buddy Jim Jones couldn't rap if he had Rakim's playbook, but at least "We Fly High" was fun.
Stream: > Cam'ron: "Dead the Funeral" [via XXL]
[from Kay Slay's Sign of the Times mixtape]