And they wonder why other races has no respect for black people as a whole.

one2three said:

When you say they who do you mean ??? The Rappers or Blacks as a people,
because I'm a Black Man born and raised in NY and I don't share that belief.
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I saw an interview with ICE CUBE recently and even he admitted that the Rap Game now is just full of actors,posers, almost none of them are living the life they rap about, all their cars,jewels and girls are rented and so is their lifestyle.

lastdecember said:

Perfect "pot calling the kettle black" case. Cube had been an 'oreo' for a long time, like the ones he talked about in his music, so I don't think he have a room to talk the "holier than thou" talk.

In fact Cube is exactly like Cam, both are modern day jungle bunnies in a modern white owned plantation, who think they got relevance in the black community by "being down"(I.E. ignorant).

And they wonder why other races has no respect for black people as a whole.

Let me rephrase...some blacks, including some rappers. If it doesn't apply to you, then there is nothing to worry about.

banks said:

And they wonder why other races has no respect for black people as a whole.

And they wonder why other races has no respect for black people as a whole.

And for the record... Cam has no street cred... He can't give away his music..
plus whenever someone does something and the hood finds out about it (who do you think tell the cops who they are and where to find them ?)

And they wonder why other races has no respect for black people as a whole.

one2three said:

WTH?


Lawdly...

Rhondab said:

I think one2three watches too many episodes of "Cops" apparently....what a dumbass statement. Like African-Americans are sitting around twiddling our fingers waiting for approval from other races so we could get on with our daily lives...please, give me a break

one2three said:

umm your comment so ignorant i have to laugh

lastdecember said:

Perfect "pot calling the kettle black" case. Cube had been an 'oreo' for a long time, like the ones he talked about in his music, so I don't think he have a room to talk the "holier than thou" talk.

In fact Cube is exactly like Cam, both are modern day jungle bunnies in a modern white owned plantation, who think they got relevance in the black community by "being down"(I.E. ignorant).

PLATINUM SELLING RAPPER TELLS '60 MINUTES': WOULDN'T HELP POLICE CATCH EVEN A SERIAL KILLER BECAUSE IT WOULD HURT HIS BUSINESS AND VIOLATE HIS 'CODE OF ETHICS'
Thu Apr 19 2007 12:47:1 ET

Rap star Cam'ron says there's no situation -- including a serial killer living next door -- that would cause him to help police in any way, because to do so would hurt his music sales and violate his "code of ethics." 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. Cooper's report will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, April 22 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

"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," says Giles. "But I'm not going to call and be like, 'The serial killer's in 4E.' " ( For an excerpt of Giles' interview, click here

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. Pressed by Cooper, who says had he been the victim, he would want his attacker to be caught, Giles explains further: "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," says Giles. "We're in two different lines of business."

"So for you, it's really about business?" Cooper asks.

"It's about business," Giles says, "but it's still also a code of ethics."

Rappers appear to be concerned about damaging what's known as 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," says Canada. Their fans look up to artists if they come from the "meanest streets of the urban ghetto," he tells Cooper. For that reason, Canada says, they do not cooperate with the police.

Canada says in the poor New York City neighborhood he grew up in, only the criminals didn't talk to the police, but within today's hip-hop culture, that's changed. "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,'" Canada tells Cooper.

Young people from some of New York's toughest neighborhoods echo Canada's assessment, calling the message not to help police "the rules" and helping the police "a crime" in their neighborhoods. 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 neighborhoods throughout the country, according to Prof. David Kennedy of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "I work in communities where the clearance rate for homicides has gone into the single digits," says Kennedy. The national rate for homicide clearance is 60 percent. "In these neighborhoods, we are on the verge of -- or maybe we have already lost -- the rule of law," he tells Cooper.

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.' "


http://drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

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Okay, first of all, let me just say that Cam'ron is fucking idiot, an he DOES NOT represent hiphop as a whole nor is he a spokesman for it. And the reason I say this is because its very rare that you see a rapper on a show like 60 Mintues, and people who watch that show and dont know much about hiphop (other than the false representations they see on TV or radio) might see this and assume that all rappers share Cam's opinion on this shit - yes, most rappers are against cooperating with police, but they do have morals. And I do not understand why of all the intelligent hiphop rappers, they would choose Cam'ron be on the show. Cam was also on Bill O Reilly a few years ago (Ill admit he did alright on there, tho).

Now, me, even if I personally chose not to cooperate with the police for whatever reason and I knew that a serial killer lived next door or anywhere, I would kill that muthafucka my damn self. I would murder that son of a bitch and leave no evidence other than the evidence of the murders they committed. But I certainly wouldnt be a big, pussy-ass studio-gangster and move away.

And speaking of Cam'ron this is the same guy who went a files a lawsuit against some individuals when him and his buddy got jumped at the Ruckers years ago. But anyway, in the future, disregard any dumbass comments made my Cam'ron.
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banks said:

serious? I know plenty of people still talking about dip set.

Please...do not let the avatar fool you.


These same people, like Cam, shucking and jiving, acting like he is hood and has to "keep his street cred" are the same ones complaining how we as black people don't get any respect and "the man" is holding them down.

Please...do not let the avatar fool you.


These same people, like Cam, shucking and jiving, acting like he is hood and has to "keep his street cred" are the same ones complaining how we as black people don't get any respect and "the man" is holding them down.

one2three said:

So basically Cam represents you as a black person?
He's your voice?