Cam’ron had a lot to say about Jim Jones on the latest episode of It Is What It Is, out now.
Monday morning, Cam and his It Is What It Is co-hosts, Mase and Stat Baby, opened the show with a lengthy Cam-led response to recent Jim-focused developments. As previously reported, recent days have seen Jones reflecting with criticism on Cam and Mase’s past relationship, as well as sharing claims that he “did a lot” for both Cam and 50 Cent. At one point, speaking with Justin Laboy, Jones went as far as to assert that Cam “couldn’t pull nothing together” and “couldn’t do nothing with him.”
On Monday’s show, Cam opened by questioning“what the fuck” Jones, his fellow Dipset alum, is talking about.
“You are from the Bronx, bro,” he said. “You are not from Harlem. … I did not grow up with you.”
From there, Cam provided what he proposed as the definitive rundown of how Jones came to be a part of the Diplomats, suggesting that “dick-riding” was a key part of what transpired in the early 2000s. To make his point, Cam directed viewers to look up several freestyles from the period, including a 12-minute Children of the Corn freestyle.
“Are you at any of these places? No, n***a,” Cam said. “You was not there, man. You wasn’t there, n***a. This is what happened, how he got cool with us. Those freestyles that we just showed y’all, go Google them and have fun with them when you get time. We were popping. There wasn’t no internet. … We were super-duper poppin’ in the streets prior to the internet. Everybody knew that we was about to get a record deal.”
Jones, Cam said, one day approached him to praise the run of freestyles at the time while inviting him to spend some time at his house following the death of his grandmother. Per Cam, he and his collaborators at the time thought this invitation “didn’t make sense,” yet Jones, at least according to Cam, continued to praise the freestyles and insisted on inviting them over to the house.
“So, yeah, I would bring some bitches over there to fuck sometimes, a little crack maybe,” Cam recalled, though he also pointed out that he was “at everybody’s house” during this time in his life and thus “never needed nowhere to stay.” Elaborating further, he labeled Jones a “fan” of his work at the time, with that same fandom ultimately leading to his alignment with the group.
“You was a fan, n***a,” he said. “You begged us. You are a fan, n***a. A fan! We didn’t grow up with you.”
Jones’ alleged “fanned-out” state is how he “got in,” per Cam, who further argued that Mase’s influence on Jones, specifically, is undeniable.
“Mase actually taught you how to rap, literally,” he said before playing various clips of Jones himself crediting Mase with helping him learn the craft.
“We taught you how to rap, n***a,” Cam added. “How you run the whole organization? How you made Diplomats? You ain’t made none of this. You was a fan. I put you down because you had a free crib and you were a nice guy. That’s how you got down originally. Period.”
Toward the end of his Jones-centered address, Cam made it clear that he has no intention of continuing this back-and-forth, nor does he want to “degrade” Jones in any way. In fact, he suggested that he would be taking the high road from here on out.
“It’s 2025. What are we talking about here?” Cam said, adding that he wishes Jones “all the best” moving forward.
Mase, meanwhile, can be seen enjoying popcorn from a Regal Cinemas bucket during Cam’s statements. Watch the full thing above.
As of this writing, Jones hadn’t publicly addressed the It Is What It Is moment.