| Come Home With Me | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Cam'ron |
| Cover: | Come Home With MeCam.jpg |
| Alt: | Cam'ron stands wearing a black leather coat and large chain while holding his toddler son wearing a red shirt, red hat, and a chain as well. The background is a collage of various images of New York City, such as the famous Cotton Club. |
| Released: | May 14, 2002 |
| Genre: | Hip hop |
| Length: | 69:09 |
| Prev Title: | S.D.E. |
| Prev Year: | 2000 |
| Next Title: | Purple Haze |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
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.[1] [2]
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.
The album was originally scheduled for a March 2002 release under the title Blow.[3] 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.
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." 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." 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."
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| Chart (2002) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[5] | 45 |
| Canadian R&B Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[6] | 8 |
| Chart (2002) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian R&B Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[7] | 59 | |
| Canadian Rap Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[8] | 31 | |
| US Billboard 200[9] | 66 | |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[10] | 13 |