Just damn. That's awful. I hope the car wasn't damaged too badly.
Posted on 11/18/2005 8:16:25 AM PST by Sthitch
The crime should be easy to solve: A blinged-out rap star is shot in his royal blue $250,000 Lamborghini on a busy Washington street during Howard University's homecoming weekend. A half-dozen people witness the attack, including several members of the star's entourage, following him in a bubblegum-pink Range Rover. The celebrity himself apparently gets a good look at the gunman.
But the police say their investigation is stalled for one maddening reason. The victim -- platinum-selling New York rapper Cameron "Cam'ron" Giles, who was shot in both arms -- doesn't seem to be cooperating. Nearly four weeks have passed, and the police can't even get Cam'ron on the phone.
"Cam isn't going to do it," said Juelz Santana, Cam'ron's rapping buddy and protege. "It's not in our nature. He isn't going to stand up and point out a guy in a witness line and say, 'That is the dude who shot me.' We all came from the street."
Snitch? Never. He'd lose all street cred. His rivals would pounce, his CD sales would crash, his cologne and liquor sales would dry up, the game would be over.
It's a familiar but frustrating refrain that police hear every day from shooting victims in some of the city's toughest neighborhoods.
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The crime should be easy to solve: A blinged-out rap star is shot in his royal blue $250,000 Lamborghini on a busy Washington street during Howard University's homecoming weekend.
This is the first line of a front page Washington Post story. They actually saw fit to use the term “blinged” on the front page of the news paper. “Blinged” ??!!? This is just the first example of many trite words used through out the “article”.
The victim -- platinum-selling New York rapper Cameron "Cam'ron" Giles, who was shot in both arms -- doesn't seem to be cooperating.
I hate the way this sentence is written as well, but I am including it not to complain about it, but to point out how they properly identify this “Cam‘ron” person as being Mr. Giles, and then simply refer to him as Cam‘ron sans quotes. Mr. Giles is this person’s name, just as Sean Colmbs is the name of “Diddy”, not Diddy.
Cam'ron got busted, too
How did this get past the editors? And not just for the use of the word “Busted”, but also the poor structure of this sentence would make any English teacher cry.
He pleaded guilty to weapons charges in that case in February and got probation.
“Got”? How about received? Sounds a wee bit more professional.
Cam'ron has recently gotten spreads in magazines
Spreads? I know what a spread is, but does the post really believe that this is a common word that would be used by its readership?
Who Shot Killa' Cam?
This was part of the prose, not a quote, but the lead to a paragraph about he theories on who might be behind the shooting. I actually would not have a problem with this line if they had simply put it in quotes.
The police are so fed up that they're looking for ways to force the issue.
There was once a time when a serious news paper would use a term such as frustrated, or irritated, but not “Fed up”
Police later searched the Expedition and turned up fingerprints, a Nextel phone and shell casings.
Do we really need to know that the phone that was found was a Nextel?
Juelz Santana said the gunman might have been jealous of Killa Cam's success.
Again with the “Killa Cam” garbage. This is such a trite sentence one would expect to see quotes around portions of it, but no, it was written by those wonderfully talented Washington Post staff writers.
Her view was shared by Brian "Fatboy" Young and Derek "Chill" Rogers, hip-hop deejays who said Cam'ron's flamboyant ways might have ticked someone off.
OK, where do I start with this one. Is it necessary to include the nicknames of these two? They actually have a number of quotes from these two rocket scientists, and use their last names, not their stock nicknames. Later in the Pulitzer Prize winning line we see that the author has used the word “ticked”. Again, from the overly casual language you would expect that this was from a quote, nope, it was an original “thought” by the writers.
He markets his own liquor, SIZZURP, a cognac-based purple punch, and cologne, "Oh Boy." And he is directing the movie "Killa Season,"
Unless the article is advertising for Mr. Giles why are his other projects in quotes, but not “SIZZURP”? By the way, this product sounds really disgusting.
There are plenty of other examples in this article, if you value your time I would not bother reading any futher.
In answer to the question, if "Cam'ron" doesn't care, why the FReep should I?
"The victim -- platinum-selling New York rapper Cameron "Cam'ron" Giles, who was shot in both arms -- doesn't seem to be cooperating."
Then who gives a crap who shot him?
Probably his record company, it's good for sales, don'cha know.
The secret motivation behind this article is snooty white liberals putting blacks in their proper place--as rap-loving gangstas who vote Democrat. Cam'ron wouldn't be Cam'ron if he behaved like a proper, law-abiding, grammar-observing citizen.
That's why Clarence Thomas "ain't black." Because he refuses to stay in his designated place as a rap-loving, abortion-loving, crime-loving Democrat voter.
'came from the street' must be a euphemism for stupid.
Time for a Darwin Awards submission, methinks.
Just damn. That's awful. I hope the car wasn't damaged too badly.
It isn't even music.
Can anyone name the drummer for Tupac?
Who is the current bass player for Snoop Doggie Poo Poo?
Extremely well said. This kind of writing would be an embarassment in a college newspaper, let alone one that touts itself as a paper of record.
LOL! I read this line as:
He markets his own liquor, SIZZURP, a cognac-based purple punch and cologne, "Oh Boy." (<- read as the beginnng of a quote)
And I thought "Purple punch and cologne??" 
I can see initially including the various characters' nicknames because many people may only know them by them, and not by their actual names. I also think that it's within the parameters of the story to note that he's marketing his own cologne, his own liquor, etc., but I wouldn't give him the free advertising of including the brand names.
The premise of the story is quite interesting, though. He says that he won't turn in the shooter because, essentially, he claims to regard that as dishonorable. However, the paper suspects that his refusal is because it would cost him a great deal of money. They don't discuss a third option; he's afraid of reprisal.
Who was Glenn Gould's drummer?
He owes someone some money and therefore he certainly wouldn't want to harm the value of his franchise, but the concern for his franchise is secondary.
Also, seducing another man's woman is not honorable according to the code of the streets, but he raps about it.
"Who was Glenn Gould's drummer?"
Do you need the complete list?
These guys had actual musicians backing them up.
Just a smaple of Cam'ron's skills from his magisterial Hey Ma.
I also recommend his excellent songs F*** You, Come Kill Me and Where The F*** You At? from his follow-up album Sports, Drugs And Entertainment.
Who cares?
A half-dozen people witness the attack, including several members of the star's entourage, following him in a bubblegum-pink Range Rover.
I wish I had an entourage, in fact, I'm at a loss for why I don't. I keeps it real. I practice my raps and my snaps faithfully. Maybe it's the lack of the bubblegum pink Range Rover. That's a little beyond my means. What if I provided bus passes? Would that get me the fly b*tches?
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