Don Cerino

"Hypocrites"

posted November 05, 2007 08:00:23 PM CST | 15 comments

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  • Ya boy phantom:

    dont sound to bad at all

  • dre bizz:

    damn dis nigga ripped it.. Anyone wanna tell me where hes from?

  • cyaya1491:

    New Song Got Me Sprung Myspace/ch33ky16

  • jaakma:

    Hyphopcrites

  • asdasd:

    shits fresh

  • ger:

    its wackk

  • Zoober Slimm:

    Fresh beats + uncensored video of Lil Dap "Steady Frontin" produced by Zoober Slimm
    and a special remix of King Kong.
    http://www.myspace.com/zooberslimm

  • afwfgawf:

    I feel this song, good sht.

  • whoa:

    this off that free tape - that shit is too crazy

  • ampy:

    this dude is sick..i heard his track with chaundon from justus league too that shit was crazy

  • Hyphen:

    This dude is dope as hell

  • Rs3:

    i never heard of this cat before
    but i give him props...
    his flow is pretty dope..i like what he's sayin
    and lyrics are straight heat

    this deserves nothing less then a 3

  • FB LOVER:

    crazy track...shoulda been on the statik record.

  • movingwightforreal:

    So Cam'ron has this new double-CD mixtape coming out in a couple of days; it'll be the first thing we've heard from him since he maybe sort of went to hiding during simultaneous feuds with 50 Cent and Roc-A-Fella hired muscle Tru Life earlier this year. "Just Us" is one of the two songs from that mixtape that Cam has leaked, and it's built from that opening "Don't Stop Believing" piano-riff. Cam loves filling out mixtapes with great songs made from super-obvious and financially unfeasible samples, like that one track where he rapped over Prince's "Diamonds and Pearls." He never got to officially release that one, and he probably won't officially release "Just Us" either, though it doesn't much matter. "Just Us" is probably too weird and oblique to be a big hit anyway, and so it's probably just now actualizing its potential as a widely-circulated mixtape track. Still, "Just Us" is probably my favorite Cam'ron song since, I don't know, "Killa Cam." On the first verse, Cam tells a story: he meets a woman and finds an unexpected moment of basic human connection. It starts out with a total cheesed-out pickup line, one you actually can imagine a goofball like Cam trying and scoring with: "She said she hate a pusher / I said I hate a booger / A snotty attitude." A few moments later, though, they're smoking weed together and she's telling him all her problems: got laid off, father dead, mother with breast cancer, son with sickle-cell. And it reminds me of that moment from Monster, that moment where two damaged people find each other: "Under this damn pressure / She looked at me, I looked at her, and then Cam measured." And then the punchline: "Started to sanchez her." (Later, he clarifies: "Yes, the dirty one.") But the story that came before is too heavy to just be the setup for some nasty shit-sex joke, and Cam knows it; he's just the type of guy who can't resist leavening the mood with a nasty shit-sex joke. The chorus to "Just Us," which Cam sort of sings, is genuinely pretty. I have no idea what some of the stuff Cam says on the second verse means: "Once the grape get dry, hope y'all enjoy the raisin"? But even there, even as he's bragging about being a candle because he's sitting on cake, he's talking with real sympathy about the problems of the girls he knows: "Tanya living check-to-check / Kim getting high, no self-respect."

    Cam is a funny guy. "Glitter," his other new song, is about a two-year-old asking why he's all covered in glittery jewelry, and Cam can't resist pointing out on the chorus that the kid's diaper is "filled up with shit." (Cam likes talking about shit.) In the lead-up to the new mixtape, he's been making a lot of fun of all the rampant speculation about his silent period. But in this interview with Miss Info, Cam reveals the real reason he's disappeared for half the year: his mother, in Florida, had a stroke, and he's been taking care of her and making sure she's OK. Maybe it's completely wrong to be looking for parallels between someone's real life and his music in situations like this, but i like to think there's a sort of compassionate streak running through "Just Us," despite all the dirty sanchez jokes, and that that compassionate streak is the same thing that makes Cam quit rap for six months to take care of his mother even though that hiatus makes him look weak and afraid. Writing about "Just Us," Brandon Soderberg mentions that maybe the Journey sample plugs into the Sopranos connection: "the image of a getting a little older, made too many mistakes, sorta paranoid Tony Soprano would certainly resonate with Cam." Maybe he's right. But I think "Just Us" works so well because it plays on the desperate romanticism of "Don't Stop Believing," that same quality that the Monster scene tapped into. "Just Us" isn't black superhero music. Cam's made superhero music before, but "Just Us" is something more grounded and pointed and maybe more necessary.

  • repndawest:

    this song is strait heat, my dude is spittin' truth
    u need 2 listen 2 the lyrics 2 understand