Come Home with Me

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Come Home With Me
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ReleasedMay 14, 2002
Studio
Genre Hip hop
Length69:09
Label
Producer
Cam'ron chronology
S.D.E.
(2000)
Come Home With Me
(2002)
Purple Haze
(2004)
Singles from Come Home with Me
  1. "Oh Boy"
    Released: April 2, 2002 [1]
  2. "Hey Ma"
    Released: August 6, 2002
  3. "Daydreaming"
    Released: February 4, 2003 [2]

Come Home With Me is the third studio album by American rapper Cam'ron, released on May 14, 2002, by Cam'ron's Diplomats Records and Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records. There are featured guest appearances from Jimmy Jones, Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey, DJ Kay Slay, Daz Dillinger, Tiffany, Jay-Z, McGruff, Memphis Bleek, and Beanie Sigel. To date, it is his most commercially successful album; it peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 226,000 copies, and eventually sold one million copies in the United States, being certified Platinum by the RIAA. [3] [4]

Contents

Its two singles were "Oh Boy" (featuring Juelz Santana) and "Hey Ma" (featuring Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey, and Toya). "Oh Boy" held the number one spot on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles for five straight weeks, the number one spot on the Hot Rap Tracks and peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. The second hit was "Hey Ma", which reached number three on the Hot 100 and number eight on the UK Singles Chart, becoming his biggest hit. "Daydreaming" was a later single released in 2003 but failed to duplicate the success from his earlier singles.

Background

The album was originally scheduled for a March 2002 release under the title Blow, [5] Guest appearances on the album are Jimmy Jones, Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey, DJ Kay Slay, Daz Dillinger, Tiffany, Jay-Z, McGruff, Memphis Bleek, and Beanie Sigel.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
RapReviews7/10 [7]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Vibe Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]

AllMusic's Jason Birchmeier praised Cam's presence throughout the record and Just Blaze supplying him with beats that strengthen him on "Oh Boy" and "The Roc (Just Fire)", concluding that "Overall, Cam'ron couldn't return with a stronger comeback album than this: he's affiliated with one of the industry's most successful labels, graced with a hot producer, and armed with a dynamite single." [6] Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews felt the pairing of Cam with Roc-A-Fella's team of featured artists and producers helped utilize his rap flow to its potential by crafting quality tracks with a "slamming assembly of b-boy beats" despite a few duds in "Live My Life" and the title track, concluding that "For the beats though, and for some of Cam'Ron's best rhymes to date, Come Home With Me will be a summer anthem album for Harlemites and Roc-A-Fella Records ryders alike." [7] Jon Caramanica, writing for Rolling Stone , commended Cam's unique lyrical abilities but felt the stories he delivered about drugs and women were half-hearted and lacked charisma, and only partially worked when the production gave them "the substance and emotional center they otherwise lack." [8]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Intro" (featuring Kay Slay) Ty Fyffe 2:44
2."Losing Weight, Pt. 2" (featuring Juelz Santana) Just Blaze 6:06
3."Oh Boy" (featuring Juelz Santana)
Just Blaze3:24
4."Live My Life (Leave Me Alone)" (featuring Daz Dillinger)Precision3:11
5."Daydreaming" (featuring Tiffany)
  • Ray Watkins
  • LeLan Robinson
  • Mike T
6:29
6."Come Home with Me" (featuring Juelz Santana & Jimmy Jones)
5:01
7."Welcome to New York City" (featuring Jay-Z & Juelz Santana)
Just Blaze5:09
8."Hey Ma" (featuring Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey, Kay Slay & Toya)
  • DR Period
  • Mafia Boy
3:40
9."On Fire Tonight" (featuring Freekey Zekey)Ty Fyffe5:40
10."Stop Calling" (featuring McGruff & Freekey Zekey)
  • Giles
  • Fyffe
Ty Fyffe6:06
11."I Just Wanna" (featuring Juelz Santana)
  • Ty Fyffe
  • Neek Rusher
4:09
12."Dead or Alive" (featuring Jimmy Jones) Kanye West 4:07
13."The ROC (Just Fire)" (featuring Memphis Bleek & Beanie Sigel)Just Blaze4:24
14."Boy Boy"
  • Giles
  • Fyffe
  • Green
  • Thomas
  • Ty Fyffe
  • Heat Makers
4:43
15."Tomorrow"BPM4:20

Sample credits [10]

Charts and certifications

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