Cam’ron has explained how his viral Bill O’Reilly interview happened back in 2003.
During an interview with KFC Radio podcast, the Dipset artist went in depth about one of the biggest moments to happen in the early 2000s.
“At the time, I was at Roc-A-Fella and they had a great publicist at the time,” Cam said. “A lot of those opportunities were presented but people were scared to take the opportunity so particularly with the Bill O’ Reilly ‘you mad’ situation, they was like, ‘You want to go on Bill O’Reilly?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know who Bill O’ Reilly is. Who is that? Not really.’ And I don’t remember if it was MSNBC or CNN, but whatever channel he was on intrigued me. I was like, ‘CNN? Bet! ‘Yeah I want to go on CNN n-gga!’ ”
He continued: “They like yo, ‘Cam he’s an asshole. I’m telling you this! They was tryna give me all this information. Now mind you, there’s no internet so it ain’t like I could just go him up at the time, so I’m like, ‘I don’t give a fuck.’ I’m me so I don’t care when I go up there but the whole staff at Roc-A-Fella is tryna warn me like, ‘Okay Cam’ and I really wasn’t giving a fuck.’
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“So now they just trying to prep me and now I’m extra like, ‘Oh, he’s an asshole’ so whatever I’m ready for this. So basically, we get up there and the first thing he says is, ‘Cam’ron who’s known for rhyming about pimpin’ bitches. And I’m like, ‘Bet, it’s on!’ From the jump! And that’s how that all came about. As soon as they prepped me, as soon as he said ‘Cam’ron rhymin about pimpin’ bitches,’ I said ‘Yeah, we gon’ have a good time.’ ”
Cam then explained how Bill O’Reilly, who had his own show called The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News in 2003, blamed the rapper for his kids…
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