Top 55 Camron Quotes

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

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

I’m from the building where the wave was invented. Downstairs, under me. Ask Bigavel. Y’all call him Bigavel, Max B. I know him as Charlie Rambo. I’m from the building where the wave was invented, and it was invented after I was born.

They treat my stuff like wine. It just gets better with time.

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

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.

If you just freestyle, everybody is gonna go, ‘Freestyle.’

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.

It just feels good when I give people sneakers.

I always grow, every album.

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

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

The thing is, with me, my life is a catwalk.

They’ve got a great tool in the Internet. If you’ve really got a good movement, you can see who likes you.

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

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

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.

I just do hip-hop because I love to do it.

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.

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

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

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.

You know what’s dope about social media, the Internet, and stuff in general? It’s that you never really realized before how much love you get, and now you can see people around the country wearing your stuff or wearing your face.

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.

You want to stay grounded, but you need to keep the music growing.

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

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.

To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don’t want to do stuff, and sometimes I’m real active.

There was a time when only athletes had sneakers. Entertainers having sneakers, on any level, is a blessing.

I didn’t want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda – God bless the dead – influenced me to do that.

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

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.

That’s what I love about the Internet – instead of having to wait on radio to play your song or TV to play your video, I can use the Internet as a tool to get my music out earlier.

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

I love having my son in my life. That’s why it’s more fathers in the hip-hop community, because they probably went through a fatherless childhood like I did.

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.

I don’t mess with Mase no more, because me, personally, I just go by a different standard than people.

When we did Diplomats music, it was all genuine, and I think that’s why people love it so much, because they seen a group of kids from Harlem that had almost nothing come up to be platinum-selling artists, and people rode that wave with us.

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.

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

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.

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.

I went to Manhattan Center High School.

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.

I’ve never started beef with anybody that didn’t start with me first.

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

Everything is a catwalk for me. I walk to the store, and that’s a catwalk.

To me, any publicity is good publicity.

I won‘t just give up anything to anybody because they’re waving a gun around.

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

I’m a fashion icon.

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.

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

I’m the gorgeous gangster.