Rating: NNN
It’s been five years since Cam’ron released a major label album, but he’s remained a pop fixture through his addictive Instagram feed and several highly touted streetwear partnerships.
On 1st of The Month, Cam proves that his rap skills have kept up with his current cultural ubiquity. He’s cocksure and comical setting up narratives filled with familial strife and street success (Other Side). He’s digressive yet totally compelling stacking internal rhymes on top of one another over soul samples (Talk About It). And he’s droll when comparing himself to the Sopranos’ toughest Mob bosses and renouncing an accomplice-turned-police-informant’s murder (Funeral).
Production on this release shades a little pedestrian, but ultimately the brevity of the EP format serves Cam well his last full-length release occasionally felt overstuffed.
Top track: Talk About It
