Cam’ron Defends Stop Snitchin’ Movement On 60 Minutes
Diplomats capo Cam’ron will be featured on Sunday night’s edition of 60 Minutes and the rapper will take the opportunity to defend the “Stop Snitchin’ Movement” to the rest of America.

Cam tells Anderson Cooper that helping the authorities would not only hurt sales of his music, but also violate his “code of ethics:”
“If I knew the serial killer was living next door to me?…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,’ ” said Cam’ron in response to a hypothetical question posed by Cooper.

Anderson is completing a report on “snitching” and how the message not to cooperate with the police can undermined efforts to solve murders across the country.
“It would definitely hurt my business, and the way I was raised, I just don’t do that,” Cam’ron explained when Anderson asked him why he won’t dime out the person who shot in following Howard University’s homecoming almost two years ago.
Anderson also talks to Geoffrey Canada, an anti-violence advocate and educator from New York City’s Harlem neighborhood.

He says the refusal to cooperate with police could stem from rappers working to maintain their “street credibility.”
“It’s one of those things that sells music and no one really quite understands why,” he told Cooper, adding that fans look up to artists if they come from the “meanest streets of the urban ghetto.”
Canada also noted how the practice of not talking to authorities has changed from when he was growing up in New York City.
“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,’” Geff continued.
The interview will appear on 60 Minutes from 7-8 p.m. EST on Sunday (Apr. 22) on CBS.
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