Cam’ron isn’t sure if he’ll ever squash his beef with Jim Jones.
The rapper sat down with the Roc Solid podcast, where he was asked if he will ever bury the hatchet with Jones. "Look, I always wish Jim the best," Cam said around the 20-minute mark. "I hope he does well. He came a long way.”
“This is my man who couldn't rap that turned into my hype man that turned into an artist, directing videos,” the rapper continued. “So his hustle is impeccable. We put out our first mixtape, 2001. The album came out in 2003. 2001 to, let's say, we broke up 2007, 2008... A six, seven-year run. Our first reunion after we broke up was in 2010. If we can't get it together now…”
Cam suggested that the length of time they’ve been apart might be the reason they never fully get it together.
"The reunions and arguments and fighting, it's been 15 years," Cam’ron explained. "The run was only seven years. We got 15 years of disputes longer than the run. I'm never going to say never. But at the end of the day, the disputes, it's 15 years old, and the run was seven years old. I don't know if it can ever go right, you know? He got records dissing me earlier this year. I don't really pay it no mind, people send it to me. But he put a song out called 'Frienemies' in [2009]. 17 years of diss records towards me. I don't give a fuck."
Cam and Jones’ beef stemmed from the latter performing with 50 Cent in New York during Cam’s beef with him. “We were having interior problems at Dipset. Nobody knew about this, nobody knew that we were not on the same page,” Cam previously explained to Fif on his YouTube show, Talk With Flee in 2024. “So when me and [50] were battling, you had members of Dipset to come to your show. When ni**as went on stage, I was like, ‘This shit is spinning out. It was a checkmate moment. I said, ‘This ni**a’s devious.’ But I respected it, I liked that shit.”
Jones addressed Cam’s comments about him during an appearance on Justin Laboy’s Respectfully podcast a few weeks later, saying of him and Fif: “Them n***as be on my dick. Them ni**as ain’t got nothing else to think about but Capo. I did a lot for them ni**as in their life, ya heard? Both of them. Pause, though. Get off my dick! It’s only space on there for baby girl. Come on, man. Tugging on my shit like that.”
Cam ended up coming back at Jones on It Is What It Is with a rant about Jones and how he reps Harlem so hard when he’s allegedly not from there. “You’re a Guardian Angel in designer, ni**a…You are from the Bronx, bro. You are not from Harlem…You are not from Harlem. I did not grow up with you, my ni**a,” said Cam.
“We were super-duper popping in the street. Prior to the internet,” Cam continued. “Everybody knew we were about to get a record deal…Basically, you heard our freestyles and you came up to me one day…and you said…‘Yo man, I heard the freestyles. Y’all killing shit. My grandmother died if y’all wanna come by and just hang out, y’all could, y’all more than welcome.'”
Earlier this year, Jones suggested that his relationship with Cam could never be fixed. “The brotherhood been over,” said the rapper on Ebro Darden’s Apple Music Rap Life Radio show.