Cam'Ron

Cam'Ron is an American rapper, record executive, and actor. He portrays Himself on ABC's Queens.

Biography
Giles was born in Harlem on February 4, 1976, and grew up there. Fredericka Giles, his mother, raised him. He attended the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, where he met Mase and Jim Jones, two of his lifelong friends. Along with Mase, he was a talented basketball player, but owing to his poor academic standing, he was unable to take advantage of scholarship offers. Instead, he enrolled at a Texas college without having completed high school, but left out and returned to Harlem, where he began peddling narcotics before beginning his rap career.

Cam'ron was introduced to The Notorious B.I.G. through Mase, who was signed to Bad Boy Records at the time, two years before Big L's death in 1999. Cam'ron impressed Biggie so much that he referred him to his business associate Lance "Un" Rivera, who signed him to his Untertainment label, which is handled by Epic Records. Confessions of Fire, his debut album, was released a year later in July 1998, and contained songs like "3-5-7" (which was also featured in the film Woo) and "Horse and Carriage," which made the R&B Top Ten. The album was certified gold and reached the Top 10 on the pop and R&B charts.

Cam'ron inked a distribution contract with Asylum Records after divorcing his label, Diplomat Records, from Roc-A-Fella in 2005 owing to conflicts between himself and label-head Jay-Z. Killa Season, Cam'ron's fifth studio album, was released in 2006, and it was accompanied by a film of the same name, in which Cam'ron made his directorial and screenwriting debuts and acted as the lead character. Cam'ron returned to music in 2009, after taking a break due to his mother's illness, and released his sixth studio album Crime Pays. On the Billboard 200, it reached number three.