Famed rapper and TV star Ice-T says that “Cam’Ron made a bad move,” in his recent “stop snitching” comments he made in his 60 Minutes interview. “I mean, Cam’Ron applied the rules of the streets, to the rules of hip hop,” said Ice-T. “Everybody in hip hop ain’t affiliated with the streets on that level. So when they asked him that big question, if a serial killer lived next to him would he tell and he said, no; Cam’Ron went out. And I love you Cam’Ron, but that was a bad call. If you know somebody’s in the neighborhood and he’s raping little girls, you supposed to tell the police about that sucker. That’s not snitching.”Ice went on to comment on the recent opinions circulating around about the “n-word” and how hip hop figures and other prominent African Americans are going about trying to ban the word, stating, “I’ma say ‘n’a’ til the wheels fall off. My daddy used to say it. I believe that, if it doesn’t apply to you, don’t say it. If you ain’t from the hood, don’t say n’a. That’s where it lies. It’s an inside word. Jewish people can say it to each other. Black people say certain things to each other. It’s ok,” Ice went on to comment, “I think a lot of black people are too overly concerned with what white people think about them. I understand that word carries a lot of pain, but not the way it’s been translated,” he continued. “I grew up listening to Red Foxx, Ronaldo Ray and Richard Pryor, all these kinds of people. If the intention is not there, then the word has no power.”
by David Dennis & Robby Uppal
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