Rapper Cam’ron took to Instagram Saturday to reveal that his mother, Fredericka Giles, passed away on February 9.
“What a f*cking ride man!! Right now I don’t have the strength to put into words to express what my mom means to me, and I’d have to right [sic] a book and maybe I will,” he catptioned the post.
“In 2007 my mom had a stroke leaving her partially paralyzed on her left side and a speech impediment, but if you followed her or was her friend on social media you would never know any of that. She was witty, funny, intelligent, sarcastic and out spoken. People would say ‘cam I know you’re writing ya moms captions’ and I wasn’t. I would see my moms captions and say ‘where are you learning this?’ (Lingo) she’s tell me ‘be easy lil homie’ lol.”
Cam’ron revealed that, at first, he had no intention of sharing his beloved mother’s passing, writing that he was in too much pain. The notoriously private rapper didn’t think it was anyone else’s business.
“So I’m so sad to inform you guys of her passing,” he continued. “I wasn’t going to share this because I’m in a lot of pain and Didnt think it was anyones business, But thinking about it, I really wanted to thank you all for making my moms days and nights for the last decade or so. Social media was her go to for, entertainment, news, general gossip etc. She would send me anything she thought I should know, about me or not, good or bad.”
Not only did Ms. Giles use social media for entertainment, she cultivated her own following and even made friends. The “Hey Ma” rapper shared that his mom would ask him to get some of her friends into his shows, despite having never met them in person.
“She also had friends on here she fight me about,” he continued. “If I had a show anywhere (Boston, cali, texas etc) and she’d say ‘yo my friend is gonna be at the show get him/her in!’ And I’d say ‘mom you don’t know these people’ she’d say ‘yes I do that’s my friend’ (me) ‘you never even met them’ (her) ‘I SAID GET THEM IN!!!’ Lol and I would.’
She recently asked her son about getting her social media account verified.
“She wanted to know a couple months ago why she wasn’t verified, she said ‘I need that blue check yo’ and my pr person @pqchanel made that happen (thank you for that).”
Cam’ron said she wasn’t feeling well recently, something her fans caught onto when she didn’t post on Cam’s birthday. He offered to post for her, but she declined.
“She wasn’t doing well on my bday that just past, and when I walked in her room (in the hospital) she was on IG saying ‘everyone wants to know what’s up with me cause I didn’t post for your bday’ I said do you want me to help you make one? She was like ‘nah.’ She wouldn’t want anybody else posting for her. She felt that like having a ghost writer I guess.”
Cam concluded the caption by thanking her fans.
So this message is really for y’all guys (her social media friends) thank you all for liking, loving and appreciating my mom,” Cam wrote. “My biggest supporter, best friend and mom @virgie_og
July 10, 1955-Feb 9, 2023.”
Ms. Giles viewing with take place on February 23, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Benta’s Funeral Home in Harlem.
Baller Alert sends condolences to Cam’ron and all of Ms. Giles’s family and friends during this difficult time.
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