January 30, 2006 @ 10:33 am

Cam'ron's Got Ants in His Pants

by: Alyssa Rashbaum

“Business is business,” he told reporters during his press conference Wednesday [January 25]. “It don’t stop. I got ants in my pants. I can’t keep still.” He’s not kidding. With the release of “You Gotta Love It,” his Jay-Z dis track, Cam kicked off a year of nonstop album, movie and DVD releases. Not to mention a tour, the launch of a new website, a TV show, a magazine, a clothing line and a documentary on child molestation. And while Cam might have to take a tiny break from it all - since on Tuesday [January 31], he finds out if he will spend 30 days in jail for violation of probation stemming from the October carjacking incident in Washington, D.C. – the Diplomats head said nothing will stop him and his crew from launching its all-out assault. Killa Season - the album that would have been released last year, had Cam not been shot in the arm during a carjacking - will be released on May 9. The album, which is the soundtrack to his film of the same name, features the “Get 'Em Daddy” remix in which the rapper notes “I ain’t going nowhere / You can shoot at me / You can stab at me,” and refers to the October shooting: “My car like an elephant / The trunk’s in the back.” Recorded the week after Cam was shot, the video for the clip shows Cam sporting a sling on his right arm. left From what reporters were shown of the upcoming Cam’ron-directed Killa Season project, the movie looks like it will be two hours of gun-slinging and dice-rolling, with special attention to beat-downs, stuffing dudes in the trunks of cars full of rats, and some romance, because every rapper has a soft side. “It’s a mix of Boyz N The Hood and Menace II Society on the east coast,” he said of the film, which is apparently just one part of a 10-part series of Killa Season-themed projects. In the trailer for the movie, set for an April 25 release, we watch Cam and his crew rolling dice in the street and placing bets. When Cam wins and goes to collect, one skinny dude insists he bet $20, not $50 (viewers hear him bet $50), so Cam retaliates by smashing a bottle over his head and urinating on him. Aside from the violence, Cam added that Killa Season, which is mostly about him and his crew growing up in Harlem, has a less violent theme: trafficking heroin, “how it’s made at $20 a gram in Dominican Republic, and when it gets to New York it’s $60. Then when you get to Kentucky it’s $350.” To support the release of Killa Season, as well as Juelz Santana’s What The Game’s Been Missing, upcoming albums by JR Writer (June 27), Hell Rell (July 4), and Diplomatic Immunity 3 (August 29), The Diplomats will kick off a nationwide tour on March 27. And while Cam said the crew plans to launch a new magazine called Platinum Entrepreneur (first cover: LA Reid), a website called killacam.net which will feature a Dipset TV show, and a clothing line featuring furs, perhaps the strangest project Cam mentioned was the DVD about child molestation via the internet. Cam got the idea for the DVD, which will be released via Koch Records, after watching a news special on the subject. “I seen a crazy MSNBC special on it,” Cam said of his inspiration. “I did a little more research and just the ridiculousness of all the men and women trying to get with children over the internet.” “We want to expose that and bring that to the light and just show how many perverts are out there,” he continued. “The DVD is gonna be crazy.” So after the year of album releases, movies, and DVD philanthropy, what’s up next for Cam’ron and the Diplomats? “After this album, the Diplomats are free agents,” Cam said. “We’ll see what happens.” Read more vibe.com online exclusives.

Article tags: Killa Season, Cam'ron, Juelz Santana, Dipset, The Diplomats, Jim Jones, Hell Rell, JR Writer, Def Jam, Jay Z, Cam Diss Song