Before their rap careers took off, Cam’ron and G. Dep once faced off in a street battle as teenagers.
During an appearance on The GoodTalk Show, Cam was asked about the wildest rap battle he’d ever witnessed in Harlem, prompting him to reflect on his early days battling alongside Mase and Bloodshed.
“We won all the battles ‘cause [it] used to be me, Bloodshed—God bless the dead—and Mase,” Cam said around the 19:55 mark. “We would go battle n***as all over everywhere. And the one time I would say that I convincingly lost—I’ll tell you this much… we went to battle these n***as and it was a three-on-three, and Mase and Blood killed the n***as they were battling. And I got killed that day.”
“The person I actually lost to was G. Dep. Young G. Dep,” Cam’ron admitted. “G. Dep killed me that day. He wasn’t G. Dep then, and I wasn’t Killa Cam as everybody knows. But that day, I was unaware that that n***a was going to come with all that shit. And I will admit that he caught me that day.”
After the clip surfaced, G. Dep chimed in to confirm the story, leaving a comment under the podcast’s post.
“Yea, and a few years later when I came home from doing that skid bid in 1997 and you gave me the peace sign out of the sunroof of the orange S500 Benz, you caught me right back that day! haha Salute, champion.”
Cam’ron and G. Dep came up around the same time, with Cam signing to Epic Records’ Untertainment imprint in the late ’90s, while G. Dep inked his deal with Bad Boy Records around that same period.
