Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Cam'Ron, Juelz Santana, Daz Dillinger, Jimmy Jones, Jay-Z, Freekey Zekey, Kay Slay, McGruff, Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel (rap vocals); Tiffany (vocals); Just Blaze (vinyl scratches). | | Producers include: Ty Fyffe, Just Blaze, Precision, Ray Watkins, LeLan Robinson. | | Engineers include: Eric "Ibo" Butler, Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mike T. | | Recorded at Sony, Baseline, New York, New York; Sweet Mountain Studios, Englewood, New Jersey. | | "Oh Boy" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group. | | Personnel includes: Cam'Ron (rap vocals); Tiffany (vocals); Juelz Santana, Daz Dillinger, Jimmy Jones, Jay-Z, Freekey Zekey, Kay Slay, McGruff, Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel (rap vocals); Just Blaze (vinyl scratches). | | Producers include: Ty Fyffe, Just Blaze, Precision, Ray Watkins, LeLan Robinson. | | Engineers include: Eric "Ibo" Butler, Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Shane "Bermuda" Woodley. | | Recorded at Sony, Baseline Studios, New York, New York and Sweet Mountain Studios, Englewood, New Jersey. | | "Oh Boy" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group. | | Personnel: DJ Kayslay, Tiffany Carlin (vocals). | | Audio Mixer: Eric "Ebo" Butler. | | Recording information: Baseline Studios, New York, NY; Sony Studios, New York, NY; Sweet Mountain Studio, Englewood, NJ. | | Photographer: Erik Johnson . | | Just when seemed as if everyone had forgotten about Cam'ron, he returned in 2002 as part of Jay-Z's industry-dominating Roc-a-Fella collective. If that wasn't reason enough to inspire curiosity, Cam'ron's lead single, "Oh Boy," blew up urban radio all summer. His rugged rapping and Just Blaze's soulful production made "Oh Boy" the huge success that it was, yet the joy of hearing Cam'ron on the radio again also had a bit to do with the revival. The Harlem rapper had fallen off the map after S.D.E., his poorly received album from two years earlier. Just two years before that, Cam'ron was one of the industry's most promising pop-rappers. His first album, Confessions of Fire, produced several singles, including his collaboration with Mase, "Horse & Carriage." However, 1998 felt like the distant past in 2002, and Cam'ron needed a big comeback after falling into obscurity during the interim. Come Home With Me is indeed that big comeback. Even though members of the Roc-a-Fella roster appear on only two songs -- "Welcome to New York City," featuring Jay-Z, and "The Roc (Just Fire)," featuring Memphis Bleek and Beanie Sigel -- Cam'ron doesn't really need the assistance here. He comes hard on most tracks, yet his muscle is complemented well by producer Just Blaze and his trademark sampling style. Just Blaze doesn't produce every track on this album, but he does provide the key moments: "Oh Boy" and "The Roc (Just Fire)." Overall, Cam'ron couldn't return with a stronger comeback album than this: he's affiliated with one of the industry's most successful labels, graced with a hot producer, and armed with a dynamite lead single. ~ Jason Birchmeier | | Cam'ron has been around the block a few times, having worked with Puff Daddy, Notorious B.I.G., and Ol' Dirty Bastard in his time. He's obviously learned a few things from these rap masters, as well as from bitter personal experience, as evidenced by the hygiene lesson of "On Fire Tonight," which is all about condoms, and the wearing of them, in explicit situations. The Harlem rapper's third CD is full of gritty lessons in street life as well as instructions in sexual etiquette, and cuts such as "Welcome to New York City" function both as bravado and warning shots to the unwary. | | The production is a mix of '70s and '80s samples and brutally simple, down-and-dirty beats, giving the whole enterprise a grainy feel that's a world away from the big-pimpin' efforts of many of Cam'rons peers. Despite his classy pedigree, the rapper is obviously devoted to keeping it real, as shown by the list of his needs and wants in "I Just Wanna." And you won't find a better document of a thug's night out in New York City than is contained within the horn-sample-heavy "Boy Boy." |
Musical Guests | | Beanie Sigel | | Jay-Z | | Memphis Bleek | | Daz Dillinger | | McGruff | | DJ Kayslay | | Juelz Santana | | Tiffany | | Jimmy Jones | | Freekey Zekey |
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