Everyone known for saying it was from Uptown. Dame & his friends that are HIS age, & Stretch & Bob had the radio show at Columbia University which basically steals a piece of Harlem. It wasn't something that people said ALL over Harlem. Harlem doesn't have one universal identity anyway, that just sounds cool for TV.
THEY SAID PAUSE WAS HARLEM LINGO
Jay z was the first rapper using pause not Cam'ron
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I'm still trying to know if anybody from Ruff Ryders ever addressed this. Jigga basically called the name of their camp sus and it probably flew completely over their heads.
2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
Superstar
“A, B, our name C/Cee
and you gotta pause(
)when you get to the D
D for dank, D for drank but not D for the dope that’s stacking my bank”
Black C RBL Posse 1992
and you gotta pause(
)when you get to the DD for dank, D for drank but not D for the dope that’s stacking my bank”
Black C RBL Posse 1992
“Shout out to nigs who say ‘Pause’ after they say some fukked up shhit” - Jigga in like 1997, lol. I’m horrible with years and I don’t even remember the song he said this on but I remember he said it and I know it was the 90s. I’m sure he heard Dame saying it all the time
I see Cam and Dame getting the credit for
"Where your balls at I had to pause that "
Who do you think Jay got it from?
Playaz Eyez
Veteran
After re-listening to early Nas, he’s the first person to rap about guns as dikks 
TheU8387899101
Rookie
Police on my draws, I had to pause - Eazy E, 1994
Nick or whatever the nig name is from *NSYNC is the first singer to sing about thug life on a record.
“She feelin my timbs, my baggy jeans, my thug appeal”
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“I ain’t choose this life, this life chose me” - Backstreet Boys
“She feelin my timbs, my baggy jeans, my thug appeal”
“I ain’t choose this life, this life chose me” - Backstreet Boys
Can I Live II
Good one!“A, B, our name C/Cee
and you gotta pause(
D for dank, D for drank but not D for the dope that’s stacking my bank”
Black C RBL Posse 1992
I see Cam and Dame getting the credit for
"Where your balls at I had to pause that "
I swear yall stupid
Everything he said during the first 6 years of Rocafella was Dame
Bum ass Brooklyn nikka couldn’t talk like that on his own
General Mills
More often than not I tend to take that L.
General Mills
More often than not I tend to take that L.
To be fair Cam never said or insinuated he was the first rapper to say Pause. If anything he was known for saying “No Homo”
Pause she just rolls off the lips easier no homo
Pause she just rolls off the lips easier no homo
Yeah I think he said they didn’t want to bite Best Out so they came up with their own twist on it but it’s always been clear where it came from