Cam and his cohorts have squarely focused themselves on the gritty and grimy “Harlem World” niche and probably do it better than any of their contemporaries from the same scene. If there’s one thing that New York City has an advantage on as the birthplace of hip-hop over other cities, it’s that it’s literally a world unto itself where you can find every different strain of the hip-hop diaspora: commercial & underground, suburban & street, gangsta & concious, so on and so on.

Since I seem to sometimes say things in Cam’s reviews that make it look like I have no respect for him, here’s three things to kick off the “Killa Season” CD review in his defense: (1.) He’s got a lot of business acumen and hustle, (2.) He’s unquestionably the leader of the DipSet and (3.) He makes New York thug music for New York thugs. (You will be wonderin what are we gonna do now)” Give his Rover the new name, the firing range I shoot his truck up just to drive him insane (You will be wonderin what are we gonna do now) Nevertheless two questions are raised: (1.) Why would you state a concrete date you could miss by weeks and (2.) Why would you open Cam’s album with the same song that made those predictions? Arguably they did remove Duke’s introduction from 40 Cal.’s “Worried” and repackage the title as “Killa Cam (Intro)” but it’s the same shit: At least he was a little less off on the latter than on the former.

On the last DipSet mixtape “The Movement Moves On” Duke stated that Cam’Ron’s “Killa Season” DVD would be in stores April 25th, while the album of the same name would be in stores May 9th. DukeDaGod’s projections were off a little bit.

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