Purple Haze is the fourth studio album by Harlem rapper Cam’ron. The album was released on December 7, 2004, by Diplomat Records, Roc-A-Fella Records and The Island Def Jam Music Group. The release of this album was delayed several times from November 2003, the first single “Get Em Girls” was released a year prior to the actual album release. The album debuted at number 20 on the Billboard 200 with 123,000 copies sold in its first week. The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Cam’ron has stated that he believes this is his best album.
Critical Reception
Purple Haze received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72, based on 7 reviews.[2]
David Drake of Stylus Magazine praised the album for its “bombastic production and surreal lyricism” and Cam’s “unique brand of idiosyncratic gangsta” being wildly engaging because of his absurd, poker-faced delivery, concluding that “Purple Haze is such a twisted take on gangsta that it has to be heard to be believed.”[9] Blender contributor Jonah Weiner noted how the production throughout the record moves between “aggressively insane (“Shake”)” to “adore pop (the Cyndi Lauper-interpolating “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”)” while Cam matches that balance with wordplay that’s “Missy gibberish swathed in 50 Cent menace,” concluding that he “writes pop hooks and avant-garde rhymes while staying as close to the streets as a manhole cover.”[4] Chris Ryan from Spin gave credit to Cam for tightening his signature flow, choosing quality and risk-worthy beats, and maintaining listener interest while delivering “Harlem symbolism and non-sensical muttering” throughout the album.[8] AllMusic editor Andy Kellman was mixed about the tracks on the record, finding “Girls” and “Harlem Streets” to be weak inclusions but praised the contributions from Kanye West (“Down and Out”), Pop & Versatile (“Soap Opera”) and the Heatmakerz (“More Gangsta Music”). He also commented that the “Diplomat-affiliated material” being released alongside it that year may cause their fanbase to suffer burnout from too much content.[3] Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club commended the album for adopting the hyper-soul style of Roc-A-Fella’s sound throughout the track listing but criticized Cam’s lyric delivery for being similar to nursery rhymes, saying that it “lumbers drearily through a sea of gangsta-rap clichés.”[10]
Online music magazine Pitchfork placed Purple Haze at number 114 on their list of the Top 200 Albums of the 2000s. Pitchfork writer Sean Fennessey said, “Call this a personal project for a relentlessly distant artist; an asshole’s lament. Purple Haze is simultaneously a refined, perfectly A&R-ed follow-up and one of the most confusing, crude full-lengths ever.”[11]
Track listingEditNo.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length1.”Intro”
Cameron Giles
Dario Rodriguez
Skitzo2:102.”More Gangsta Music” (featuring Juelz Santana)
Giles
Gregory Green
Sean Thomas
LaRon James
Migel Collins
Paul A. Henton
Dave Richards
Bobby “Digital” Dixon
The Heatmakerz4:263.”Get Down”
Giles
Chad Hamilton
Marvin Gaye
Ivy Hunter
Chad Hamilton2:374.”Welcome to Purple Haze” (skit)GilesCam’ron1:155.”Killa Cam”
Giles
Green
Thomas
The Heatmakerz4:246.”Leave Me Alone, Pt. 2″
Giles
Johnny David Mollings
Leonardo V. Mollings
Jerry Goldsmith
Nasty Beat Makers4:027.”Down and Out” (featuring Kanye West and Syleena Johnson)
Giles
Kanye West
Fred Briggs
Kanye West
Brian “All Day” Miller
4:088.”Harlem Streets”
Giles
Ty Caldwell
Mike Post
Ty-Tracks3:419.”Rude Boy” (skit)GilesCam’ron1:2810.”Girls” (featuring Mona Lisa)
Giles
Henri Charlemagne
Robert Hazard
Charlemagne3:4311.”I’m a Chicken Head” (skit)GilesCam’ron1:2612.”Soap Opera”
Giles
Victor Babb
Frank Visosky
William “Smokey” Robinson
Pop & Versatile4:1013.”O.T.” (skit)GilesCam’ron0:2414.”Bubble Music”
Giles
Mike Miller
Lawrence Simpson
David Hinds
Stay Gettin’ Productions3:5115.”More Reasons” (featuring Jaheim)
Giles
Hamilton
Ryan Presson
Jaheim Hoagland
Maurice White
Philip Bailey
Charles Stepney
Hamilton4:3016.”The Block” (skit)GilesCam’ron0:4617.”The Dope Man” (featuring Jim Jones)
Giles
Dwayne Holmes
Jim Jones
Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner
Marshall “Rock” Jones
Ralph “Pee Wee” Middlebrooks
Walter “Junie” Morrison
Bruce Napier
Andrew Noland
Marvin “Merv” Pierce
Greg Webster
Bang3:2618.”Family Ties” (featuring Nicole Wray)
Giles
Rodriguez
Nicole Wray
Skitzo4:1719.”Adrenaline” (featuring Twista and Psycho Drama)
Giles
Samuel Lindley
Carl Mitchell
Jeffrey Robinson
The Legendary Traxster4:3920.”Hey Lady” (featuring Freekey Zekey)
Giles
Ezekiel Giles
Babb
Visosky
Larry Troutman
Roger Troutman
Pop & Versatile3:0721.”Shake” (featuring J.R. Writer)
Giles
Edward Hinson
Juan Rusty Brito
Self Service, Music Mystro3:2822.”Get ‘Em Girls”
Giles
Rodriguez
Skitzo4:2323.”Dip-Set Forever”
Giles
West
Lamont Dozier
Freddie Gorman
Brian Holland
Kanye West3:5424.”Take ‘Em to Church” (featuring Juelz Santana and Un Kasa)
Giles
Antwan Thompson
James
Antonio Wilder
Amadeus3:48
Sample credits
“More Gangsta Music” contains a sample of “Woman I Need You” by Sizzla.
“Get Down” contains a sample of “Life’s Opera” by Marvin Gaye.
“Leave Me Alone Pt. 2” contains a sample of “Bajo Fuego” by Jerry Goldsmith.
“Down And Out” contains a sample of “Strung Out” by William Bell & Mavis Staples.
“Harlem Streets” contains a sample of “Theme from Hill Street Blues” by Mike Post.
“Girls” contains a sample of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper.
“Soap Opera” contains a sample of “Merry-Go-Ride” by Smokey Robinson.
“Bubble Music” contains a sample of “Blues Dance Raid” by Steel Pulse.
“More Reasons” contains a sample of “Reasons” by Earth, Wind & Fire.
“The Dope Man” contains a sample of “Funky Worm” by Ohio Players.
“Hey Lady” contains a sample of “I Want to Be Your Man” by Roger Troutman.
“Get ‘Em Girls” contains a sample of “Carmina Burana – O Fortuna” by Carl Orff.
“Dip-Set Forever” contains a sample of “Forever” by Chuck Cissel.
PersonnelEdit
Credits for Purple Haze adapted from AllMusic.[12]
Cam’ron – executive producer
Kareem “Biggs” Burke – executive producer
Traxster – mixing
Tony Dawsey – mastering
Bang – producer
Carlisle Young – mixing
Charlemagne – producer
Eric “Ebo” Butler – mixing
Cam’ron – producer
Oluwaseye Olusa – photography
Kanye West – producer
Chad Hamilton – producer
Traxster – producer
The Heatmakerz – producer
Versatile – producer
Skitzo – producer
Ryan Press – producer
Duke Dagod – A&R
Nasty Beatmakers – producer
Stay Gettin’ productions – producer
Robert Sims – art direction
Antwan “Amadeus” Thompson – producer
Travis Cummings – artist coordination
Ty Tracks – producer
Jamel George – artist coordination
Monica Morrow – stylist
Shalik Berry – artist coordination
Mike Peters – vocals
Rick Patrick – creative director
Jim Jones – vocals
Juelz Santana – vocals
Mike T. – engineer
Jaconda “Ms” Blunt – vocals
Carlisle Young – engineer
Latrice “Grease” Carter – vocals
Eric “Ebo” Butler – engineer
Sarah Hinds – vocals
Mike Peters – engineer
Steven “Opera Steve” Santiago – vocals
Milwaukee “Protools King” Buck – engineer
Dave Irving – vocals
Damon Dash – executive producer
Charts
Weekly Charts
Year-end Charts
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Whitmire, Margo (December 15, 2004). “Ludacris Lights Up No. 1 With ‘Red Light'”. Billboard. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
- ^ a b “Reviews for Purple Haze by Cam’ron”. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
- ^ a b Kellman, Andy. “Purple Haze – Cam’ron”. AllMusic. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
- ^ a b Weiner, Jonah. “Cam’ron: Purple Haze”. Blender. New York. Archived from the originalon August 15, 2004. Retrieved November 8,2017.
- ^ Dombal, Ryan (December 13, 2004). “Purple Haze”. Entertainment Weekly. New York. Archived from the original on January 5, 2005. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
- ^ “Cam’ron: Purple Haze”. NME. London: 45. January 8, 2005.
- ^ Breihan, Tom (January 26, 2005). “Cam’ron: Purple Haze”. Pitchfork. Archived from the original on March 3, 2009. Retrieved May 24,2014.
- ^ a b Ryan, Chris (January 2005). “Cam’ron: Purple Haze”. Spin. New York. 21 (1): 100–01. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
- ^ a b Drake, David (December 10, 2004). “Cam’ron – Purple Haze – Review”. Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on December 31, 2013. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
- ^ Rabin, Nathan (January 17, 2005). “Purple Haze/R.U.L.E.” The A.V. Club. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
- ^ Pitchfork staff (September 28, 2009). “The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 200–151”. Pitchfork. Retrieved October 1, 2009.
- ^ “Purple Haze – Cam’ron | Credits”. AllMusic. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
- ^ “Cam’ron Chart History (Billboard 200)”. Billboard. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
- ^ “Cam’ron Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)”. Billboard. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
- ^ “Year-End Charts: Billboard 200 Albums – 2005”. Billboard. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
- ^ “Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 2005”. Billboard. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
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