The editor of a popular hip-hop website is calling on a record-maker and a Canadian store chain to stop sales of an American rapper's CD she fears will inspire youth to commit crimes.
And "Kemi" Omololu Olunloyo said yesterday she'll ask immigration officials to prevent Cameron "Cam'ron" Giles and his rap group from performing in Canada.
The sixth commercial CD made by the New Yorker -- due out tomorrow -- is called Crime Pays.
On the first track, I hate my job, Cam'ron raps about returning to crime to earn a better living than as a $12-an-hour coffin cleaner without much work unless more young people's bodies are delivered, Olunloyo said.
"I Hate My Job is telling our kids not to get an everyday job and just go back to the streets," she said on a new website, seeking supporters for a petition opposing the CD.
'REDUCE CRIMES'
"We need to reduce the crimes," the mother of three sons, editor of the Hiphossip Canada music gossip website and spokesman for several murder victim's families, said from her Chalkfarm Dr. apartment -- near where two men were recently killed.
A native of Nigeria and longtime U.S. resident who moved here in 2007, Olunloyo said: "Toronto is now my home. It's much safer than in the United States and I don't want that to change.
"I love hip-hop," but she said Crime Pays is another example of rap that goes too far in glorifying crime.
Several U.S. rappers have been turned back from the border for having violence-promoting lyrics or criminal records, which Olunloyo said she supports.
"Children imitate things," she said. "They will follow what they see ... They want to be like children in the U.S. who have a gun."
Giles -- who changed his stage name from Killa Cam -- is a Harlem-born rapper and actor who founded The Diplomats, also called Dipset.
Shot in 2005 after refusing to give up his expensive sportscar to carjackers, Giles told a TV interviewer he didn't know the shooter but would refuse to help police regardless, to avoid hurting record sales if branded a "snitch."
He couldn't be reached for comment.
The Hiphossip Canada site is: hiphossip.com.
To view the petition online, visit petitiononline.com/051209/petition.html.
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