How Cam’Ron bought rejected by Halle Berry

Many males through the years have fawned over Halle Berry. The model-turned-actor was a Hollywood intercourse image within the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s, and in her function because the Bond Lady Giacinta ‘Jinx’ Johnson, she turned many heads for her performing and indeniable attractiveness. That stated, in 1998, Harlem emcee Cam’Ron (actual identify Cameron Giles) tried to courtroom the actor in Los Angeles.

Throughout an look on the All The Smoke podcast with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Giles recalled his run-in with Berry in LA earlier than she grew to become the primary black feminine to win an Oscar for Finest Actress. However, he admitted she rejected him, as she was with one other man then.

He started recounting the trade the pair had by expressing his admiration for Berry, stating, “I love Halle Berry, right? So one day [when] I had [recently] gotten a record deal, I had just finished playing basketball in LA. I’m at the ATM, and n***as is like, ‘Yo, that’s Halle Berry next to you!’ I ain’t got no haircut, I got no shirt on. I’m like, ‘Yo, let me talk to you real quick!’”

Revealing that Berry virtually instantly shut him down, Cam’Ron continued, “She’s like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no. You have to relax.’ I’m like, ‘Hear me out! Hear me out.’ So she walking to her car mad fast and I’m following her. But I had a cassette tape.”

Giles laughed at how determined he will need to have regarded on reflection however unveiled that, on the time, he was attempting to get some promotion, including, “My promo was [on] cassette tapes at the time before CDs came out. So I’m like, ‘At least let me just give you my tape!’ So she rolled her window down [slightly].”

However, an keen, younger Cam’Ron started to grasp there was a person within the automotive Berry had jumped out of, so he ceased the flirting and made it a purely business-centred mission, concluding, “There was a n*gga in the passenger seat, laid back. I slid the shit through there and gave her my fuckin’ promotional. It wasn’t my album—It was one of those shits where it got the snippet songs on there. So I gave her that shit!”

For years, Cam’Ron didn’t know who the person was. However, on the 2004 American Music Awards, alongside figures such as Nelly Tyson Beckford, and Larenz Tate, Tate approached Giles, exclaiming, “Yo my n*gga, I fuck with you, na. You one of my favourite for years. You know that was me in the passenger seat with Halle when you slid that joint in there.”

On the time, each Tate and Berry have been filming the 1998 drama Why Do Fools Fall in Love. You possibly can take heed to Cam’Ron talking on the All The Smoke podcast beneath.