That’s what everybody’s thinking, but I don’t want to get people hyped. Jim Jones is on the record, Juelz Santana did a hook for it and Dame Dash put all of this together, but I don’t want to sell people dreams and act like it’s a Dipset project coming out. But what’s going on is a Cam’ron and A-Trak project. The flames were previously rekindled back in 2010, when Cam, Jim Jones and Juelz Santana put out a street single entitled ‘Salute’, although nothing followed.Ĭam is quick to dispel these rumours, explaining: “To be honest see, that’s the thing, everybody is anticipating a Dipset reunion. Instantly, the dormant rumours of a Dipset reunion are reignited. So I went back to my hood in Harlem and we walked around and shot the video.” The Ricky Saiz-directed visual shows The Diplomats and Dame Dash wandering around Harlem like it’s 2003, and his Supreme affiliation places it perfectly into the street wear world where Cam and A-Trak’s audiences align. “He got the director, he paid for the video, all he needed from us was just to be us. “I’m not even going to lie, A-Trak put the whole video together,” Cam’ron says when asked about ‘Dipshits’.

While ‘Federal Reserve’ certainly shouldn’t be viewed as a throwback project, A-Trak is clearly aware of the ingredients necessary to make a Cam’ron project that will stand up to classic material like ‘Come Home With Me’ (2002) and ‘Purple Haze’ (2004). ‘Dipshits’ is the second track to come from the release, having been preceded by ‘Humphrey’, a track that didn’t have the impact of a visual, but caused excitement with A-Trak cleverly tapping into the soulful production style that would take Cam fans back to the height of his career. That’s what everybody’s thinking, but I don’t want to get people hyped… I don’t want to act like it’s a Dipset project coming out. It was just, ‘Oh, you want to do something? Let’s do something.’ Then we did it. He was like, ‘A-Trak is really big in the world that he’s in.’ So I was like, ‘Let’s just put a project together.’ We went to the studio in my house three times and knocked out about nine songs. “He wanted to do a song with me, and Dame Dash connected us. “I didn’t know who A-Trak was,” Cam admits as we settle into a booth in the bar downstairs. Cam arrived in London just this morning, following a 4,000-capacity sold-out show in his hometown of New York – his first with A-Trak in support of their forthcoming ‘Federal Reserve EP’ – and the success seems to be helping him overcome the tiredness of travelling.

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