Cam’ron Finally Reveals Why Lil Wayne & Juelz Santana’s Joint Album ‘I Can’t Feel My Face’ Was Never Released
Cam’ron finally explained why Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana‘s long lost collab album I Can’t Feel My Face never saw the light of day.
During a recent episode of his YouTube show Talk With Flee, Cam’ron talked about the rumors about him being the reason why Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana never dropped their much-hyped project. “So, Juelz and Lil Wayne had a project,” he began. “Def Jam is under Universal, which Lil Wayne was signed to. When they wanted to put this project out, Universal told Def Jam, ‘Well, Lil Wayne still didn’t give us his album yet, so if y’all wanna put this project out, we’re taking 95 percent and Def Jam, y’all can take 5 percent.'”
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Cam continued by explaining that the business side of things didn’t make sense and said he wasn’t to blame for the deal eventually falling apart. “Shout to Steve Gawley, he’s now the head lawyer for Universal, at the time he was the lawyer for Def Jam, and we still good to this day. Now go find Steve Gawley and ask him that,” he said. “N—as don’t know Steve Gawley; n—as just wanna blame Cam. We had a joint venture deal with Def Jam, so if that project came out, that means Def Jam would get 2 and a half percent of the album and me and Juelz would get 2 and a half percent of the album. And they said, ‘Cam, we love you and all that, but we’re not doing that.'”
He added: “Why would I wanna stop making money? My whole thing was to make Juelz a star, to make Juelz rich. However it played out in the end, it played out towards the end. But Juelz said it: ‘Cam gonna make me a star, he’s gonna make me a million.’ We both did what we said we was gonna do. Why would I wanna stop that?”
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There are unofficial versions of the fabled project floating around the Internet made by entrepreneurial mixtape and DVD salesmen from a time when you could buy burned copies of music on a CD from a guy in a barbershop or from a kid at your school. The album was supposed to be released around 2006 after Wayne dropped Tha Carter II and Juelz dropped his sophomore LP What the Game’s Been Missing!
Wayne talked about releasing the project as an album instead of a mixtape with MTV News back in 2006. “It’s a mixtape, but we just sat down and listened to it and noticed that we didn’t use no outside beats,” Wayne said while on the set of his video for “Shooter.” “We used all produced beats. We can go album with this. Look out for it, we are deciding [whether to release it as an official LP].”
You can watch the full episode below.
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