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Cam'ron: "Got It For Cheap" (Video) (NSFW)

11:30 a.m. · March 17, 2009 · by Andrew Winistorfer

I wonder if anyone predicted that following a self-imposed exile, a disastrous stop snitching appearance on CNN, selling Juelz Santana, and fighting Jim Jones that Cam'ron would essentially stand as the most viable and credible Dipset member left on the block. In the time since Cam went away, Juelz has been reduced to appearing on tracks by the likes of Sean Kingston and other lessers, and Jim Jones has stretched his substandard skills into substandard projects like a one man show, and somehow roped Dame Dash, who used to have an eye for talent, into becoming his one man PR machine.

Cam'ron, however, comes back without much stink on him, and anticipation for his new album, Crime Pays is hitting something of a fever pitch. Here's a video for "Got It For Cheap," which finds Cam dropping some of the hazy metaphors that made him the most hyped member of the Diplomats (he references Goof Troop!). The video is purposefully NSFW (murders, women, drugs, etc.), and the chorus is sort of lifted from Clipse (who have been making We Got it for Cheap mixtapes), but it is still more entertaining than anything Jim Jones has ever done.

Crime Pays is due out on May 5 via Asylum. [RealTalkNY]