On a recent episode of Talk With Flee, Cam’ron reflected on the freestyle session that nearly changed his life — the day Mase brought him to The Notorious B.I.G.’s home and he rapped for the rap legend for nearly 15 minutes straight.
“People don’t know or they do know — Biggie Smalls discovered me,” Cam’ron said. “Mase brought me to Big and I rapped for like 10, 15 minutes while he was laid up in bed with some chick.”
Though he couldn’t recall the exact rhyme that landed him on Biggie’s radar, Cam made it clear how dedicated he was to the moment. “I used to have rhymes folded up in my pocket,” he said. “Like 15 pages. I would read them during downtime and just memorize them all day.”
Cam explained that the freestyle wasn’t just a moment — it was a real audition. “Any beat he threw on, I just rapped to it,” he said.
Gene Deal, a former Bad Boy security officer who was close to Biggie, later confirmed that Big was impressed. “He had plans for you,” Deal reportedly told Cam’ron, referencing Big’s idea to include Cam in The Commission, a group that would’ve included Jay-Z and Charlie Baltimore.
Cam’ron never got to sign with Big. “Even though Biggie wanted to sign me and everything else, I didn’t actually sign with Entertainment until Big died,” he said. “It wasn’t like I left Big’s house and the deal came the next week.”
It wasn’t until the filming of the “Missing You” video that Cam ran into Lance “Un” Rivera and made the connection official. “I told him, ‘I’m the one Big wanted to sign,’” Cam recalled. “Un was like, ‘Oh yeah — he did tell me that.’”
The bars may be lost to time, but the moment clearly still lives with Cam: “I was just in the zone.”
