Cam’ron Thanks Harlem For His Success As He Accepts Legacy Leader Award

Cam’ron Thanks Harlem For His Success As He Accepts Legacy Leader Award

The Legacy Leader Award has been given to Cam’ron in recognition of his achievements while growing up in Harlem.

At the Black Independence Awards luncheon in his hometown on Saturday night (June 17), Killa Cam gave an emotional acceptance speech.

“My mother left Atlantic City for Harlem in 1963, but I often imagined what it would be like to grow up there.” Thank God I didn’t grow up in Atlantic City, I thought at that point. I grew up in a violent, drug-filled neighborhood in Harlem during the late 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s.

Cam continued by describing how his mother enrolled him in tap-dancing and gymnastics programs because she always wanted more for him and wanted him to be diversified. The Dipset rapper stated that basketball was his first love before rap and that he believed it would be his ticket out.

I was a top 50 basketball player in the US by the time I was 13 years old. This phenomenon called Hip Hop was aging at the same time that I was. I like putting words together, whether I was rapping, graffiti-ing, or breakdancing.

After meeting Ma$e and being expelled from college together, Cam’ron was motivated to take rapping more seriously after witnessing his Harlem neighbor, Big L, land a record deal.

Cam says Dame Dash got him out of his first bad record deal and helped his career take off on Roc-A-Fella.

After meeting Ma$e and being expelled from college together, Cam’ron was motivated to take rapping more seriously after witnessing his Harlem neighbor, Big L, land a record deal.

Cam says Dame Dash got him out of his first bad record deal and helped his career take off on Roc-A-Fella.

“Everywhere I go, I take Harlem with me,” he declared. Everywhere I go, Harlem is what I stand for. Hopefully my documentary will be out around this time next year, allowing you all to view much more.”

While a documentary is in the works for 2024, Cam is also keeping active off the music scene by co-hosting the sports talk program It Is What It Is with his good pal Ma$e, which has welcomed guests like ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith.

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