Cam'ron Would Not Help Police Catch Even A Serial Killer - Would Hurt Business & Violate His 'Code Of Ethics'
Grammy nominated, platinum recording artist Cam'ron, whose real name is Cameron "I'm An Idiot" Giles, recently talked to Anderson Cooper on how negative aspects of rap and hip-hop have undermined efforts to solve murders across the country.
Cooper's report will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, April 22 on CBS.
"If I knew a serial killer was living next door to me?" Giles responds to a hypothetical question, "I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him -- but I'd probably move," says Giles. "But I'm not going to call and be like, "The seria
l killer's in 4E.' "Cam'ron's "code of ethics" also extends to crimes against him. After being shot, Giles refused to cooperate with police.
(... the nonchalantly amoral absurdest thug-rap prince, was driving when "an unknown number of men" pulled up and demanded he turn over his royal blue 2006 Lamborghini. Cam refused, so they shot him. Read more here.)
Why? "Because...it would definitely hurt my business, and the way I was raised, I just don't do that," says Giles.
Pressed by Cooper, Giles explains further: "... you're not going to be on the stage tonight in the middle of, say, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, with people with gold and platinum teeth and dreadlocks jumping up and down singing your songs..."
"So for you, it's really about business?" Cooper asks. "It's about business," Cam said.
Some rap artists appear to be concerned about damaging their "street credibility," says Geoffrey Canada, an anti-violence advocate and educator from New York City's Harlem neighborhood. "It's one of those things that sells music and no one really quite understands why. Their fans look up to artists if they come from the meanest streets of the urban ghetto," he tells Cooper.
For that reason, according to Canada, they do not cooperate."It is now a cultural norm... It's like you can't be a black person if you have a set of values that say I will not watch a crime happen in my community without getting involved...,'" Canada tells Cooper. Young folks from some of New York's toughest 'hoods call the message not to help police "the rules" and "a crime."
These "rules" are contributing to a much lower percentage of arrests in homicide cases -- a statistic known as the "clearance rate" -- in largely poor, minority communities. The national rate for homicide clearance is 60 percent.
Says Canada, "It's like we're saying to the criminals, You can have our community....Do anything you want and we will either deal with it ourselves or we'll simply ignore it.'"
HERE'S CAM & DAME ON FOX'S BILL O'REILLY
MAN-UP MEN, STOP CO-SIGNING ON THIS B.S!!!