Cam’ron has opened up about his unlikely friendship with Mac Miller, which went deeper than most followers would possibly suppose.
Reflecting on the late Pittsburgh rapper on the most recent episode of his YouTube collection Speak With Flee, Killa Cam mentioned: “That was my buddy. We didn’t all the time do music. He would come to my crib and we’d simply watch TV and snap on Skitzo [my producer and friend]. Mac Miller was hilarious.”
The Dipset legend wasn’t the one one in his household who was an enormous fan of Mac’s fun-loving spirit.
“My mom — God bless the useless — beloved Mac Miller as a result of she would hear Mac Miller’s on the home and she or he’d say, ‘Yo, placed on Twitter that you simply’re at my home.’ And he would tag my mom on Twitter and she or he would get, like, a thousand followers. So at any time when Mac Miller would come to the crib, she could be actually glad,” Cam continued.
“Exterior of music, he was only a cool dude, a humorous n*gga. It wasn’t all about music [with us]. I believe we received three songs that we did collectively out of the ten, 11 occasions that he got here to my home. I actually fucked with that child.”
Cam additionally recalled his response to Mac’s premature demise in 2018, which was dominated an unintended overdose.
“Once I was with him, I by no means noticed him do no sort of medicine so after I noticed that shit come out [about his death], I used to be like, ‘What the fuck?!’” he mentioned, clearly nonetheless shocked by the tragedy.
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Cam’ron and Mac Miller collaborated quite a few occasions, together with on the songs “Ignorant” and “Dig That,” and at one level had been even planning to launch a full mission collectively.
“Me and Cam are literally speaking about doing a mission collectively,” Mac informed XXL in 2012. “We don’t know after we’re gonna do it. We have now three or 4 songs recorded already. We’re engaged on extra at this level.”
He added: “We’re two humorous guys. We minimize up rather a lot within the studio, and have an excellent time and make some dope music. I believe the cool factor is that it’s an sudden collaboration that truly turned out dope.
“We wanna do some soulful hip-hop shit, whereas additionally making some arduous shit and a few enjoyable music. [We’re] ensuring that we do it in a means that’s totally different than different individuals who have performed tasks collectively … He’s received plenty of data in that he’s education me on.”
