Killa Season

Killa Season is the fifth studio album by Harlem rapper Cam'ron. The album was released on May 16, 2006, by Diplomat Records and Asylum Records. Cam'ron was also the executive producer of the album. The album received positive reviews but critics found the production and content lesser compared to Purple Haze. Killa Season sold 114,000 copies in its first week, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200.[1]

Killa Season
Studio album by Cam'ron
Released	May 16, 2006
Recorded	July 2005–March 2006
Genre	Hip hop
Length	70:14
Label	Diplomat Asylum Atlantic
Producer	Cam'ron (exec.) Pro-V Ty Fyffe BlackOut Movement Charlmagne Peersonile The Alchemist BBanga I.N.F.O. & NOVA The Heatmakerz Big Tyme The Beat Firm Stay Gettin' Productions Chad Hamilton Sancochito's Ent. Boola
Cam'ron chronology
Purple Haze (2004) Killa Season (2006) Crime Pays (2009)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
HipHopDX	[3]
The Phoenix	[4]
Pitchfork	6.7/10[5]
RapReviews	7/10[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]
Stylus Magazine	B-[8]

Killa Season garnered a positive reception but music critics were mixed toward Cam's choices in production and lyrical content compared to Purple Haze. Peter Relic of Rolling Stone found criticism in the album's production and soul samples and Cam's insults towards Jay-Z but still found it entertaining with its wordplay, saying that "Killa Season proves Cam'ron can still bring heady verbiage and heat, but it's doubtful Jay-Z is losing much sleep."[7] While also finding the production decent, Brian Sims of HipHopDX praised the album's skits and hooks and Cam's delivery for bringing light to creative imagery, saying that "As an industry veteran, Cam deserves a lot of credit for not using his album to address petty squabbles or provide some pseudo-intellectual autobiography."[3] AllMusic editor David Jeffries said that the album was in need of a rewrite on some tracks but still found it enjoyable with memorable hooks and for showing a vulnerable side in Cam, concluding that "Killa Season would have benefited from trimming and better planning, but those things are extremely rare in the world of Dipset. Taking that into account, the album is exceptional and a good enough excuse for two more years of mouthing off and starting trouble."[2]

Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews praised the album for continuing Purple Haze's formula with tight wordplay and loose soul sample production, despite containing tracks that were Dipset holdovers, concluding that, "Nonetheless Cam fans should be happy with Killa Season, an album which continues his recent trend of solid (if somewhat unspectacular) solo CD's."[6] Jayson Greene of Stylus Magazine found some of Cam's lyrics humorous at times, but found the production and guest artists lacking in variety in terms of go-to names, concluding with "Instead, Killa Season is a retreat, an album to satisfy the converted but one that will keep his mythical status confined to the 12-mile radius of his Manhattan home."[8] Pitchfork writer Ryan Dombal felt the album was a disappointment compared to Purple Haze, finding the production lacking in energy and in need of more humorous songs ("I.B.S.") then aggressive diss tracks ("You Gotta Love It"). Dombal also pointed out that the limited edition of the album contained a DVD that reveals Cam'ron's battle with Jay-Z was all for publicity, concluding that, "If this underwhelming offering is any indication, such blind self-reference has considerably slowed down Cam'ron's once-unstoppable Dipset Movement."[5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Killa Cam (Intro)" (featuring 40 Cal.)	Pro-V	5:01
2.	"He Tried to Play Me" (featuring Hell Rell)	Charlmagne	3:43
3.	"Leave You Alone"	Blackout Movement	3:24
4.	"Living a Lie" (featuring Mo Money)	Ty Fyffe	4:32
5.	"We Make Change" (featuring Juelz Santana)	Jonathan Dugger a.k.a. "Peersonile" for Versatile Music Productions, LLC	3:10
6.	"Voicemail (Interlude)"		2:04
7.	"Wet Wipes"	The Alchemist	3:35
8.	"Touch It or Not" (featuring Lil Wayne)	BBanga	3:41
9.	"War" (featuring Hell Rell)	NOVA	3:51
10.	"Triple Up" (featuring 40 Cal.)	BBanga	4:09
11.	"I.B.S"	The Heatmakerz	3:32
12.	"Get Ya Gun"	Big Tyme	3:58
13.	"White Girls"	The Beat Firm	3:48
14.	"Girls, Cash, Cars"	Stay Gettin' Productions	3:06
15.	"Do Ya Thing (Remix)"	Chad Hamilton	2:54
16.	"Get'em Daddy (Remix)" (featuring Hell Rell, J. R. Writer, & Jim Jones)	I.N.F.O.	4:33
17.	"Voicemail (Interlude 2)"	Sancochito's Ent.	1:13
18.	"Something New" (featuring Hell Rell)	Boola	3:18
19.	"You Gotta Love It" (featuring Max B)	I.N.F.O.	6:13
20.	"Love My Life" (featuring Nicole Wray)	Jonathan Dugger a.k.a. "Peersonile" for Versatile Music Productions, LLC	4:26
21.	"Exclusive Track 1"		2:02
22.	"Exclusive Track 2"		3:04

Personnel

Credits for Killa Season adapted from AllMusic.[9]

Eric "Ebo" Butler - engineer, mixing C. Alan Byrd - composer D.P. "Dad" Carter - composer Karen Civil - A&R Tony Dawson - mastering Mike DeSalvo - assistant engineer Walik Goshorn - photography

Phil Knott - photography Gene McFadden - composer Ralph Rivera - art direction Charles Stepney - composer Maurice White - composer Verdine White - composer Jacob York - A&R

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2006) Peak position US Billboard 200[10] 2 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[11] 1 US Top Rap Albums (Billboard)[12] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2006) Position US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[13] 52 US Top Rap Albums (Billboard)[14] 25

See also

• List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 2006
• List of number-one rap albums of 2006 (U.S.)

References

1. Hasty, Katie (May 24, 2006). "Chili's Warm To No. 1 Album Post Again". Billboard. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
2. Jeffries, David. "Killa Season - Cam'ron". AllMusic. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
3. Sims, Brian (May 15, 2006). "Cam'ron - Killa Season". HipHopDX. Cheri Media Group. Archived from the original on April 5, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
4. Sylvester, Nick (June 20, 2006). "Cam'Ron". The Phoenix. Phoenix Media/Communications Group. Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
5. Dombal, Ryan (May 18, 2006). "Cam'ron: Killa Season". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
6. Juon, Steve 'Flash' (May 16, 2006). "Cam'Ron :: Killa Season :: Diplomatic Man/Asylum Records". RapReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
7. Relic, Peter (June 2, 2006). "Cam'ron: Killa Season". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. Archived from the original on May 28, 2009. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
8. Greene, Jayson (May 24, 2006). "Cam'ron - Killa Season". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
9. "Killa Season - Cam'ron | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
10. "Cam'ron Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
11. "Cam'ron Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
12. "Cam'ron Chart History (Top Rap Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
13. "2006 Year-End Charts: R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on November 10, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
14. "2006 Year-End Charts: Rap Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on March 30, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2015.