Our look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions Crime Pays, the new, controversial-in-Canada album from Cam’ron: More »
A banner day on the Internet! Heroes of rap bloggers and indie rock bloggers who wish they were rap bloggers Dipset are all over the place! First up, former Purple City council member Hell Rell is accusing The Source of payola, claiming he was told to pay a writer $1,000 for a mixtape review.
As one commenter noted in our story/poll yesterday about the California family whose Disney Channel Hits CD actually contained “real explicit” gangsta rap, the offending hip-hop turned out to be from the Diplotmats’ Diplomatic Immunity. More »
Yesterday, an underwear-clad Cam’ron released a video responding to 50 “Cuurtis” Cent, who tried to extend the long-standing feud between the two by claiming that Cam’ron was in hiding somewhere. More »
Russell Simmons appeared on The O’Reilly Factor last night (above) to promote his new book, Do You! (we don’t know why he gave it such a terrible title–do you?). Not surprisingly, most of the discussion was about Simmons’ proposal to ban those three words from radio, and about Cam’ron’s 60 Minutes appearance. It’s nowhere near as hot-headedly crazy as you’d expect, though O’Reilly does have some threatening words regarding Cam’ron: “He was in [the studio], if he comes in here again, I’ll wise him up.”
Speaking of Cam, he’s hired a publicity firm to help him deal with the public fall-out from his anti-snitching statements, and released a statement today apologizing for his comments:
Nah Right points us in the direction of last night’s 60 Minutes segment on the “Stop Snitching” phenom, which includes an analysis of the Cam’ron/50 Cent feud and plenty of criticism about how Busta rhymes handled the shooting death that took place on one of his video sets last year. More »
The good about rapper Cam’ron’s 60 Minutes appearance this Sunday? He’s about to national prime-time television exposure! The bad news? Your stern-faced uncle is about to quiz you about this so-called “stop shvitzing” movement:
Cam’ron, whose real name is Cameron Giles, talks to Anderson Cooper for a report on how the hip-hop culture’s message to shun the police has undermined efforts to solve murders across the country…
“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.’ “
