13. Roc, The (Just Fire) - (featuring Memphis Bleek/Beanie Sigel)
14. Boy Boy
15. Tomorrow
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2002 marks a new year in the career of Cam'ron as he has signed to the notorious Roc-A-Fella empire and joined in Jay -Z's official team Roc line up. On his eagerly anticipated third disc "Come Home With Me," Cam'ron dives deep into heaven and hell that is Harlem. On the first single "Oh Boy" Cam'r on takes you back to the day when he was a shorty around the way, giving the listener a taste of old school sounds.
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In the late '90s, all a thug needed to do to get a deal was rap about hustling and have a quirk that set him apart. Cam'ron's style was quirk itself, a virtual hiccup that stopped and started in fits and would often result in the man rhyming the same word a handful of times.
Therefore, it's some sort of poetic justice, or just a really good joke, that on his recent hit single, "Oh Boy," the beat itself features a sampled high-pitched voice that chimes in "boy" at the end of every second beat. Of course, writing around that glitch and creating coherent verses is something of a talent, one that Cam and his protJuelz Santana display an adeptness for. But on this track, as on much of the rest of this, Cam's third album, it's the music that saves him.
"Welcome to New York City" is something of a monster, a loud, aggressive rock track that's meant to serve as a riposte to Jermaine Dupri's "Welcome to Atlanta" but is too concerned with its own urban indulgences to truly worry about what's going on elsewhere. The horns that blare throughout "The ROC" (featuring labelmates Memphis Bleek and Beanie Sigel) give the Roc-A-Fella crew a threatening edge that's lost in the blinding glare of Jay-Z's megaplatinum success. But there's little heart behind Cam's ice grill. His deliberate rhyme style makes even his most impassioned rhymes, as on the otherwise excellent "Live My Life" and "Come Home With Me," sound a bit perfunctory. No amount of vocal tic can save him.