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Purple Haze  (Audio CD) 
by Cam'ron

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Cam'ron's records command admiration from a wide spectrum of hip-hoppers: conscious to crunk to gangsta. Cam and his Dipset stick to the same production formula (on "Get Down," for example) that graced his previous monster hit, "Oh Boy": sped-up samples and lots of hooks. Therefore, it seems only natural that he would team up with Kanye West--another rap duke who's taken this style to the bank--and on "Dip-Set Forever" and "Down and Out" they share sped-up samples together. But if drugs (using, selling, or importing) and sexploits aren't your thing, Purple Haze may come off a bit lyrically linear. Cam'ron also plunders pop-culture samples ranging from the Hill Street Blues TV theme ("Harlem Streets") to Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Fun" ("Girls"), often to questionable effect. "Adrenaline," however, teams two MCs with the freakiest flows on the planet, Twista and Psycho Drama, to produce menacing, low-BPM G-funk at its finest. --Dalton Higgins

Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date: December 07, 2004
Studio: Roc-a-Fella
Number Of Discs: 1
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Average Customer Rating: based on 133 reviews
Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. More Gangsta Music - Cam'ron, Juelz Santana
3. Get Down
4. Welcome to Purple Haze (Skit)
5. Killa Cam
6. Leave Me Alone, Pt. 2
7. Down and Out - Cam'ron, Syleena Johnson, Kanye West
8. Harlem Streets
9. Rude Boy (Skit)
10. Girls - Cam'ron, Jim Jones
11. I'm a Chicken Head (Skit)
12. Soap Opera
13. O.T. (Skit)
14. Bubble Music
15. More Reasons - Cam'ron, Jaheim
16. Block (Skit)
17. Dope Man - Cam'ron, Jim Jones
18. Family Ties - Cam'ron, Nicole Wray
19. Adrenaline - Cam'ron, Psycho Drama, Twista
20. Hey Lady - Cam'ron,
21. Shake - Cam'ron,
22. Get 'Em Girls
23. Dip-Set Forever
24. Take Em to Church [*] - Cam'ron, Juelz Santana, ,
 
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5Get 'Em Cam  Nov 23, 2009
The Purple Haze is very strong and itz packing a powerful punch. IDK if people know that he write some the songs in 2001, but it drop in 04 and it was worth it. My favorite track is Dip-Set Forever produce by KANYE WEST. O that I'm A Chicken Head [Skit] very funny and most of the skits are funny. Top 5 songs Dip-Set Forever, Leave Me Alone Pt. 2, Get 'Em Girls, Down And Out, and More Gangsta Music

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5One of the greatest alternative hip-hop albums!!!  Dec 07, 2008
This album is on par with "Dr. Octagonecologyst" and "Supreme Clientele". Brilliant, passionate, subversive, funky and surreal. What Kool Keith does to scatology and animals, Cam'ron can do to cocaine-trafficking, misogyny and swagger. He makes an art out of being a ghetto hustler and over-the-top fashion icon. It may not be something everyone can listen to, but its what he grew up exposed to and what he can expound upon better than any journalist or satirist. On the song "Take Em To Church" he criticizes childhood friend and fellow Harlem rapper Mase for flip-flopping between pop-rapper and money hungry preist. Even with a thuggish mentality, Cam'ron can't hide his brains and morality.

Cam has one of the greatest flows you will ever hear. Always unimpressed and deadpan, he has a tone, rhyme scheme and wizardy with consonant sounds that makes MF Doom seem boring. Whats stunning is it seems effortless. His psychedelic slang isn't quite as absurd as Ghostface's, but much cooler and modern. Dipset were truly the first punk rock gangstas. They do the unthinkable and make it smooth. From sampling Cyndi Lauper to wearing pink to rhyming everything but the last word of a bar. They know how absurd they appear and feed off it. This album destroys taboo after rap taboo like being hosted by a young white Dipset affiliate and former drug customer as if to solidify their crossover appeal and fashion-forward hip-hop authority.

Cam'ron influenced the individualistic Lil Wayne we know today. But Cam'ron has a menacing air, sense of wit and lyrical skill that Lil Wayne will probably never have. Its really surprising Cam'ron made it on to mainstream radio with such cerebral similes/metaphors and transgressive content. One of my favorite rhymes and images: "We tie dynamite to the rhino tight" His follow-up "Killa Season" doesn't have the stunning writing, beats, energy or overall style of "Purple Haze". But in the realm of hip-hop, this album is as important as the Jimi Hendrix album of the same name is to rock'n'roll. Classic.

5Fantastic album from a well respected hiphop artist.  Aug 30, 2008
Although he might not have made some of the best decisions in his career, Cam'ron has always been held in high regard in the hip hop community. From his initial releases in Come Home with Me and S.D.E., Camron showed his lyrical abilities, his insightful glimpse into his troubled upbringing, and gritty hood tales over banging beats. With his progression from a local hiphop phenom, to a national star, his level of game has increased. Although he has been at odds with alot of the hip hop elite, namely Jay and Nas, no one can deny the swagger and talent that Cam'ron possess.

Now, as far as this album, this will go down as one of hiphop's greatest CDs. Filled with AMAZING beat selection, and witty lines from Cam'ron and his compatriots "The Diplomats", this cd is fantastic for its bombastic beats and its entertaing rhymes. Although Cam'ron's lines can sometime appear overy simply or even misogynistic, this is still an entertaining CD that will leave you and everyone who listens to it at ease.

A great CD. Please cop today.

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2E.Diddy  Dec 14, 2007
One or two good tracks, the rest pretty average...has this irretating "Killa" announcement before each song...need to beg Rock-a-fella records for forgiveness and see the light again...

5Cam'ron best album  May 17, 2007
YO this CD is good as hell its Cam'rons best album, its way better than killa season. This cd showed how much potential dispet had when they were with rocafella. every CD they dropped when they were with the roc was good as hell, now there just average.

 
 
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