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Cam'ron

Crime Pays

RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

2009

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Cam'ron may never match his wacked-out 2004 masterpiece, Purple Haze. His feuds with Jay-Z, 50 Cent and former Dipset comrades Juelz Santana and Jim Jones have failed to make him a star. But on his sixth album, the Harlem MC remains one of hip-hop's most compelling eccentrics, enlivening clichéd gangsta subject matter and pro forma beats with his deceptively virtuosic flow, and with taunts that work by wiggy word association ("I got the answer/They clueless/Ashanti/Foolish"). Tucked in amid the daffy fun is the first great song of the economic downturn, "I Hate My Job," in which Cam'ron channels the downsized Dilberts of the world.



JODY ROSEN

(Posted: May 12, 2009)

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