Cam'ron Won't Help Police Catch Serial Killers (2 time Grammy Rapper would rather move than help)

CMJ New Music First ^ | 04/20/2007 | Rachael Darmanin

[SirLinksalot]

Cam'ron Won't Help Police Catch Serial Killers

Story by: Rachael Darmanin

If Cam'ron's next-door neighbor happened to be a serial killer, you'd probably never know. According to an interview with Anderson Cooper that will air on this Sunday's 60 Minutes, the platinum- selling artist, whose real name is Cameron Giles, says he would not offer any information to aid police catching a serial killer if he knew of their whereabouts, citing a potential subsequent decline in sales and the upholding of a "code of ethics" as his prominent reasoning.

"If I knew the serial killer was living next door to me? I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him," Giles stated in the interview. "But I'd probably move. I'm not going to call and be like, 'The serial killer's in 4E.'"

The interview is part of Cooper's report on how hip-hop tends to send a message to its listeners to avoid aiding police in solving murders. Giles was shot in the arm three times in 2005 while in Washington, D.C., but the Harlem native would not cooperate with the police.

"It would definitely hurt my business," he responded after Cooper asks him why he never turned in the gunmen. "And the way I was raised, I just don't do that."

This episode of 60 Minutes will air Sunday, April 22 at 7 p.m. EST on CBS.

www.cbsnews.com/60minutes/

[rom]

Real humanitarian this guy.

[mtbopfuyn]

Never heard of the low life scum.

[SirLinksalot]

Here’s news that tell us that he might be lying. Actions speak louder than words ...

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http://www.gothamist.com/2007/04/20/camron_must_rea.php

Cam’ron Must Really Believe in Omerta

2007_04_snitch2.jpgGet ready for this Sundays 60 Minutes, because there’s an intriguing segment: Anderson Cooper interview rapper Cam’ron about the hip-hop community’s code of silence when it comes to crimes. In fact, here’s an excerpt of their exchange from CBS News:

“If I knew the serial killer was living next door to me?” Giles responds to a hypothetical question posed by Cooper. “I wouldn’t call and tell anybody on him — but I’d probably move. But I’m not going to call and be like, ‘The serial killer’s in 4E.’ “

Giles’ “code of ethics” also extends to crimes committed against him. After being shot and wounded by gunmen, Giles refused to cooperate with police. Why?

“Because … it would definitely hurt my business, and the way I was raised, I just don’t do that,” says Giles.

And when Cooper asks if Cam’ron were the victim, would want his attacker to be caught, Cam’ron says no and offers, “But then again, 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, either. We’re in two different lines of business.” And Cam’ron was the victim - he was shot in 2005 and hasn’t said anything.

Cooper also interviews the Harlem Zone’s Geoffrey Canada who says, “It is now a cultural norm that is being preached in poor communities … 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 to stop it.’” Back in 2005, regarding Cam’ron’s silence, Hip Hop Music said, “For God’s sake, start snitching.” More: Michael Patrick MacDonald wrote about the code of silence when growing up in white South Boston in the book All Souls and rapper Busta Rhymes has been criticized of not giving information about his bodyguard’s death.

Update: The Smoking Gun tells us Cam’ron actually did cooperate with the NYPD back in 1999 after a dispute at a Harlem playground.

[L98Fiero]

“It would definitely hurt my business,” he responded after Cooper asks him why he never turned in the gunmen. “And the way I was raised, I just don’t do that.”

You don’t deserve to be breathing good air.

[SirLinksalot]

Never heard of the low life scum.

For what it's worth... he's a biggie in the hip hop and rap world and was nominated twice for a Grammy. He's also a platinum selling "artist" ( note the quotes ).

If you tune in to Urban radio on FM, you are most likely to hear him.

[MizSterious]

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the s.k. targeted him. Woops, too bad, couldn’t turn him in.

[goldstategop]

Yep. In other words, he puts his own skin ahead of the community's safety. Typical lib coward.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[I see my hands]

Busing, affirmative action, reparations, protected class status. I can't wait to find out what societal cure the next group of foolish idealists will impose.

[OldFriend]

Wonder if the Smoking Gun just signed a death warrant for this guy.

[OldSmaj]

Wonder if the Smoking Gun just signed a death warrant for this guy.

We can only hope.

[Right Wing Assault]

Maybe the serial killer next door will get someone he loves someday. That is, if such a scumball a$$hole knows what love is. He won’t call on the guy.

Or better yet, maybe he will be the on of the killer’s projects! That would hurt business.

[freekitty]

You could move; but this serial killer has probably already zeroed in on you since you know he/she is a serial killer.