Rap star Cam’ron: WOULDN’T HELP POLICE CATCH EVEN A SERIAL KILLER BECAUSE IT WOULD HURT HIS BUSINESS AND VIOLATE HIS ‘CODE OF ETHICS’
He is but one of many that feel this way. This is pretty freightening, and no it isn’t a statement taken out of context. Cam’ron, whose real name is Cameron Giles, talks to Anderson Cooper for a report, set to air Sunday night on 60 Minutes,  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.’ ”
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. 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.”
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Obviously I don’t know the new meaning of ethics?  It is time to shut this business down.
April 20, 2007 - 09:49 AM on April 20th, 2007
Giles is the definition of selfish stupid.
April 20, 2007 - 12:55 PM on April 20th, 2007
You mean evern after some thug beat the crap out of him stole his bling blings and threatened to cut his throat what a stupid mindless jerk:razz:
April 20, 2007 - 01:37 PM on April 20th, 2007
Look I don’t agree with him, but morally compromised decisions like this are made every day in corporate America. “It’s not personal, it’s business” IMO is no excuse, but it’s not uncommon.
April 20, 2007 - 07:04 PM on April 20th, 2007
So does that mean that if someone pays someone $50 to put a bullet in this moron it’ll be okay because “It’s only business”?
April 21, 2007 - 02:10 AM on April 21st, 2007
4.
Ted’s completely right. The rhetoric of rap isn’t just sex and murder; it’s (literally) “get rich or die tryin’”. It’s the ugly side of American corporate life reflected back at us.
April 21, 2007 - 05:58 AM on April 21st, 2007
5- Well, we aren’t talking about his muusic, we are talking about his personal decision, and the same decision is made throughout the black community…
April 21, 2007 - 08:34 AM on April 21st, 2007
4.
If you re-read my post I said I don’t agree with him. I won’t compromise my morals for the excuse “it’s only business”. However, corporations are usually amoral, so I wouldn’t rule out seeing that scenerio in corporate America.
April 21, 2007 - 09:13 AM on April 21st, 2007
Corporations by nature have no soul, no conscience. That’s just the way it is, and why some large, successful businesses remain privately owned. They know that if they go public, they will lose their conscience and their soul.
April 21, 2007 - 09:21 AM on April 21st, 2007
Too bad serial killers don’t just go after maggots like Cam’Ron. Then at least they’d be serving a useful purpose.
April 21, 2007 - 10:28 PM on April 21st, 2007
This jerk has no ethics just a selfish self centeredness and a brain the size of a walnut:mad: