Cam'ron talks about his close relationship with Mac Miller

[Solomon Lurke]

He wasn't running with it as a single. The shyt just got popular and he would perform it at shows. Thats it.

Maybe unintentionally then but I remember the video getting a lot of play.

 

[spliz]

Maybe unintentionally then but I remember the video getting a lot of play.

It did because people fukked wit it. Its no different than Wayne and Juelz version of Black Republican.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

What was the problem between him and Finesse?

Mac used the beat for Hip 2 da game made a song called kool aid and frozen pizza racked up millions of views with a music video, then performed it on tour and didn’t pay royalties until Finesse sued him and they eventually settled.

He told me this personally.

 

[maxamusa]

creh was like 16 when he dropped this.....still my shyt 2 this day....








RIP MAC

 

[maxamusa]

Yea the way it was handled just came off like he just wanted to disrespect the white guy, which is completely fine with if it's warranted


but it wasn't in this instance, Mac took a ton of young black artists on their first tours and set them up to win, he's the wrong target

it is what it is





lowkey finesse could have handled it different....since Mac really is authentic and a student of the game.....I think he went for the quick lick when he could have really handled it different and got the long work

 

[Duke Dixon]

 

[RhymesWell]

To me Mac is the GOAT white rapper. He's the best version of what a white person can do in the game if they respect and honor the culture. Never acted too good for rap. Had great relationships with everyone behind the scenes. Never weaponized his whiteness. More white rappers should follow his blueprint.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I think Finesse had a problem with him getting paid using the track at his shows and etc.

Norman Connors got at Mack too for sample clearance

This here.

Finesse found out that Mac was getting paid for the song and wasn't crediting or paying him for using his beat. So they ended up settling out of court. You can't do that, legally. So Finesse was right to sue.

But Mac was a really good dude. That was my guy. He loved Hip Hop, and just loved music, period. He was one of those artists who was always trying to master whatever they focused on at the time, musically. So to see how he was developing as an artist over the years, was mad dope and inspiring. I loved the direction he was going in with his music. I met him through Syd from The Internet and always just felt like he was a wild genuine dude who just wanted to keep getting better as a musician. He was also supportive of a lot of other MC's and producers too. Doing whatever he could to help their careers. So when he passed, that was a hard one to accept. He was definitely a special person.

RIP Mac Miller.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Mac was cool with everyone and helped a LOT of people free of charge. He could have easily gone the pop rap route, made a lot of money and made music for white girls. Instead he spent his time making underground shyt, helping Vince Staples become a better artist, taking guys on the road, helping Schoolboy Q craft his albums, working with the Odd Future guys, incorporating jazz artists into his shyt, etc. Nothing but respect for that man.

 

[J-MIL]

Never got into dude music but this dope to know

I did like his reality show he seemed like a cool dude

 

[MJ Truth]

Yea the way it was handled just came off like he just wanted to disrespect the white guy, which is completely fine with if it's warranted


but it wasn't in this instance, Mac took a ton of young black artists on their first tours and set them up to win, he's the wrong target

If someone is profiting off of your work and you don’t get a cut, you’re able to handle it however you want to. Not just music. Not black and white. Just life. It is what it is.

 

[ShaDynasty]

I remember Mac settled with Finesse because Finesse never cleared his OG sample. Its hard to win a suit against someone when you're doing the exact same thing.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I remember Mac settled with Finesse because Finesse never cleared his OG sample. Its hard to win a suit against someone when you're doing the exact same thing.

Nah.

Lord Finesse chopped an old sample into a million pieces and made a beat. Everything else on the beat was just his drums and effects. But Finesse had already cleared the sample in '95, and had the beat registered with BMI for The Awakening back then.

He wasn't using anything unauthorized. Finesse was good. He reached out to Mac to handle it without going to court, but then the middlemen got involved and the label wanted to get paid off of Mac too, so that's why they kicked the sh*t all the way up to like $10M.

 

[spliz]

Mac used the beat for Hip 2 da game made a song called kool aid and frozen pizza racked up millions of views with a music video, then performed it on tour and didn’t pay royalties until Finesse sued him and they eventually settled.

He told me this personally.

It was sucka shyt by Finesse. Cause u know how many nikkas was doing shyt like that wit mixtapes? All them G Unit tapes and the list goes on? He sued him cause he was a lil white boy. shyt could've been handled way different.

 

[IAMDetroit]

Not to cape for her because I don’t know her, but Mac was already rapping about drugs and the chances of overdosing before Arianna came into the picture. Mac kinda knew the road he was going down. He rapped about it a lot before and after Arianna. Faces was a major tape in which he rapped about dying(Grand Finale and Funeral) and that was two years before he started with Arianna.

I just have a hard time blaming her. I honestly think he moved on from her and that she wasn’t a factor to him. If anything, the woman he actually loved was the hometown chick he was fukkin with on the come up who isn’t famous. He lowkey raps about her the most.

Mac was doing good. The Arianna situation had him relapse