Purple Haze 2
| Cam'ron
Purple Haze 2
Cam’ron has released the sequel to his iconic 2004 album Purple Haze. The new project features guest spots from Wale, Max, B, Jim Jones, and more. It also includes the previously shared “Believe in Flee.” -Pitchfork
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Ratings Game Music
In Purple Haze 2, Cam reminds the world why people in the hood see him as a triple OG, as, in the album, he tells believable tales about everything you can find in a hood encyclopedia. Purple Haze is one of my favorite rap albums. Purple Haze 2 isn’t one of my favorite rap albums, but it does remind me why I loved Purple Haze so much back then.
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Legends Will Never Die
Cam sounds focused, the features mostly compliment him & the production’s a lot harder than it was on Crime Pays. A lot of sequel albums fail to live up to the hype of the original, but this is definitely one of the more solid ones out there.
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HYPEBEAST
Apart from the previously released singles like “I Don’t Know,” featuring Wale; “This Is My City,” with Max B; “Big Deal” and “Believe in Flee,” the rest of the album is packed with rich lyricism that teeters between heartfelt self-reflection and braggadocious triumph.
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Rap Radar
Cam’Ron continues the powerful music with his seventh studio album, Purple Haze 2. Serving as the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Purple Haze from 2004, Cam shows and proves that he’s still got it on the first single, “Believe In Flee“.
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Hip-Hop Wired
With his latest studio album, Purple Haze 2, Killa Cam is in tip-top lyrical shape . . . . Of course, Cam does a fair amount of boasting on the album but it isn’t all stunt talk as he gets into his story-telling bag as he’s done many times in the past.
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Pitchfork
Resurrecting a strand of mid-2000s New York hip-hop built on tightly wound samples and a reduced emphasis on bass, Purple Haze 2 is forged in the spirit of the original.
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HIPHOP87
. . . it lives up to all the hype – as it coincides with the release of his special collaboration with Diamond Supply Co. Sixteen tracks in total, the nearly hour long opus of freshly laced beats by Heatmakerz, compliments the lyrical resurrection of classic Camron.
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COMPLEX
But Purple Haze 2 is a solid late-career effort, . . . .
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GRM DAILY
Opening the project with assertive and carefully constructed bars on the tracks "Toast to Me" and "Medellin", the New York hailing artist proves he is back like he never left.
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iMusician
Fifteen years later, the Dipset icon rewards everyones patience with a new testament all but guaranteed to put his fans at ease. Where a lesser artist mightve tossed out a sequel without much care, the familiar Heatmakerz producer drop and chipmunk-speed soul on opener Toast to Me makes clear that Harlems Greatest has every intention of honoring the original with this new work.
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Rap On Demand
Opening the new project with assertive and carefully constructed bars on the tracks “Toast to Me” and “Medellin”, the New York hailing artist proves he is back like he never left.
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STEREOGUM
. . . he’s still better at conveying what’s going on in his mind than almost any of his peers. Purple Haze 2 is not a classic rap album like its predecessor. It can’t be. The circumstances aren’t right for it. But it’s closer than I could’ve ever imagined.
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HotNewHipHop
Purple Haze 2 is heavy with the streetwise rhymes that Cam'ron's fans have grown to love as he spins tales of his life on the block and run-ins with the law. He pays homage to the city that helped raise him while reflecting on his trials and triumphs with beats that reverberate New York City.
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TREBLE
It isn’t quite accurate to call Purple Haze 2 a more mellow effort but rather than adding to his fantasy mystique, the record is steeped in a self-reflective and quasi-instructional summation of how Cam’ron constructed his pink-coated antihero over the past two decades; . . . .
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Doc LJ
Following the first Purple Haze that was released on December 7th, 2004, Cam'ron did not disappoint at all with PH2. We got the vintage Killa Cam with his nice lyrical wordplay and the samples of 80's songs he always samples.
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Doopli
This album gave us more details of his past, present and future. His intelligence of hip hop music has always been there but Cam’ron is one of the most consistent artists at holding his own on an album . . . .
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