Album Of The Week: Cam'ron 'Crime Pays'

Find out why we're co-signing Killa's comeback with this look at the week's hottest music release.

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camronARTIST: Cam'ron

ALBUM:Crime Pays

SOUNDS LIKE: What a Cam album's 'posed to sound like: ignorant

FUN FACT: The Dipset reunion album has a new release date: Nevuary 4th.

WHY COMPLEX IS CO-SIGNING IT: 'Cause it's Killa, man! And man, did we miss Killa. Crime Pays sounds like Cam's been in straight hibernation mode since 2006's Killa Season, and that's a good thing because we're not trying to hear Cam on Auto-Tune or Cam collaborating with The Dream or Cam rapping about skinny jeans. This is just regular, run-of-the-mill Cam—straight unfiltered ignorance with more stupefyingly offensive quotables than ever. He's the rap Larry David, for real! Even when the beats get nervous (Skitzo's cool but he ain't really 13-tracks(!) cool), every song is worth listening to just for that "Your moms buys hero(i)n/With no hands, I'm smackin' her" moment. Everything we love about Cam is repped here, from silly ("Silky (No Homo)") to awesome ("Cookin' Up") to gangsta ("Get It In Ohio) to the silly, awesome and gangsta ("Cookies N Apple Juice"). Seriously, we haven't been this excited about an NYC rap album since...since...since...

Read on to watch Cam's new BET Uncut-worthy video and Buy It Now info...

VIDEO: Cam'ron, "COOKIES N APPLE JUICE" b/w "SILKY (NO HOMO)"

[CLICK HERE TO BUY CRIME PAYS ON MP3 FOR $9.99]

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