The Dipset reunion may as well be called official, as a deal with Interscope Records is nearly finalized and new music is finally starting to trickle in.
Dipset, for the unenlightened, is a Hip-Hop supergroup which includes rappers Cam'rom and Jim Jones, as well as Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey. The crew dropped the single "Salute" back in June, which you can check out here:
Cam'ron has given an update to MTV on the status of the group's new comeback LP, and why personal projects and financial standards took priority first.
"It's a few people that's been getting at us, but the money's not really where we want it to be," Cam said. "So we'd rather distribute it ourselves until somebody comes with the right amount of money. Jim is using the 'Salute' record as his single, so we'll build off of that. But basically, with the Diplomat thing, everybody is gonna do it, but we got obligations. Jim got his album he definitely gotta turn in...[Me and Vado] got this Gunz and Butta thing. Juelz is putting his album together. Nobody wants to stop where they already have contracts and obligations, but we working too. We got eight, nine songs done."
Jim Jones took to his Twitter page last week to post a video of him and Cam'Ron in adjacent cars, shouting out the window at one another in celebration of their deal to release the reunited group's next album.
"The deal's almost done!" laughed Cam'Ron before Capo turned the camera on himself. "Deal almost done!" said Jones.
Last month, Dipset's Freekey Zekey opened up about the delicate task of reuniting Cam and Jones after a three-year spat.
"I done grabbed up Killa, snatched up Juelz, called Jim, we all sat down and I said enough of the bullsh*t, what's happening," Zekey recalled to radio personality Mr. Peter Parker. "We got big money, big business, big opportunities right now and I'm not stopping until everybody sit down right here and put everything out on the table -- I [was] sitting there and letting them know it was way bigger than this, what are [they] arguing over, nobody took a dirty Subway sandwich and smacked somebody's mom's with it...I can never give up on my family. It's 2010, time to get it in. Dipset wins again..."
Fans continue to anticipate a Diplomatic Immunity 3 project, and it seems that day is coming into view on the horizon. Fingers crossed...
