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Cam'ron Recalls Paying Nearly $5 Million to Bail Out Two Friends After Tour Bus Search

Cam said he was "sick" after paying the $4.8 million bail.

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Cam'ron took his followers on Instagram on a trip down memory lane, looking back at the time in the early 2000s when a tour bus belonging to Dipset was pulled over by police on suspicion of being connected to a nearby shooting.

According to AllHipHop, the incident occurred in New England in 2003 while Dipset was traveling around promoting their upcoming album Diplomatic Immunity. Authorities were investigating an alleged shooting and believed gunshots that destroyed a car's windows on the highway came from inside the tour bus.

Cam'ron may have been a bit hyperbolic in his retelling, claiming there were "like 92 cop cars" when the tour bus was pulled over. "The cops pulled the tour bus over like...the end of Set It Off when Cleo was about to run through the barricade with all the cops," he said. "They had like 92 cop cars out there!"

"They pull us off the tour bus talking about, 'Yo, somebody’s car windows got shot out,'" Cam recalled, to which he responded, "'I don't know how that happened, officer.'"

Cam'ron said everyone was freezing as they stood outside the tour bus because it was about three degrees at the time. After demanding that Cam and his crew "get their faces out their shirts," the officers ask if they are "gangstas," pointing to the title of the single "Gangsta Music" displayed on the bus.

While looking at everyone waiting outside the bus, Cam'ron realizes Juelz Santana is nowhere to be found. The 48-year-old rapper wonders if Juelz could be hiding under the muffler, adding, "That boy know how to hide."

When the car involved in the shooting shows up and the passengers confirm that the shots were fired from the tour bus, authorities start conducting a search and find several guns.

Cam'ron maintained the weapons did not belong to any of them, but two of his associates were still taken into custody.

"Now they lock two of my n****s up, I start talking shit," he recalled. "'I don't care what the bail is, I'm bailing n****s out.' The bail was $4.8 million. Oh my God, I was sick. But I bailed n****s out, though, and everybody was good."

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