Cam’ron shared that Suge Knight once confronted him over sampling 2Pac’s “Ambitionz Az a Ridah” on his track “Live My Life (Leave Me Alone)” from his debut album Come Home With Me.
On Talk With Flee, Cam described the encounter as relatively mild: “To me, the Suge Knight conversation wasn’t a tough situation; it was more of a conversation that got a little aggressive, and then it wasn’t aggressive.”
The confrontation happened outside the Sentry Club in LA, with Cam recalling: “[Suge] came over to us with probably about five, six, seven people, and he was like, ‘Yo, you owe me money.'”
When Cam asked why, Suge explained, “You used one of my beats.” Cam clarified that Daz Dillinger had recreated the beat for him in studio. Suge laughed and responded, “Daz can’t control shit, Daz don’t own nothing. I own it.”
Cam revealed that Suge tried intimidating him by mentioning someone supposedly from his crew who he claimed to have harmed. But Cam stood his ground, and Suge eventually backed down saying, “You know what? Don’t even worry about it, little homie. We good, it’s all good.”
This isn’t Cam’s first time sharing this story – he rapped about it on his 2019 track “Fast Lane,” mentioning that his friend Tito had pulled out a knife during the confrontation as a precaution:
“Walked up out of [the club], got approached by Suge Knight / He said I owed him money, started screwin’ / I said, ‘No, I don’t, homie, now tell me what we doin’?’ / He said, ‘How you figure?’ I said, ‘I said so’ / Tito flicked his knife, he was ready to go to death row / I’m talkin’ kamikaze, but we resolved it calmly / Everything I say is truth, I put that on my mommy,” rapped Cam.
