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On Sunday, ’60 Minutes’ featured a report on how the hip-hop culture’s ‘Stop Snitchin’ campaign has played a huge role in the amount a unsolved murder cases in the country. One of the interviewees to speak with reporter Anderson Cooper was Cam’ron – who if you don’t remember, was shot at a nightclub in Washington D.C in 2005 and refused to cooperate with the police to find the shooter.

Cam’ron explained his reasoning for not snitchin’ was a violation of his ‘code of ethics’. This would also serve as a reason for others in Hip Hop and the Black community seeing as being a ‘snitch’ makes one look like a sell out, could damage their street cred, or they can possibly become another unsolved murder case.

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