Video: Cam On The Value Of College
Don’t knock the dropout-GED-Community College route… it’s a great way to get into a university early in life while saving some money.
Congratulations to my little sister who’ll be graduating next month and will be transferring to UF. How many 17 year olds do you know with an Associates?
“The reason I named it Crime Pays … I’m not sitting around boasting or anything, but there’s a way to get around everything in the system,” he rationalized recently. “My favorite instance in particular, with me — I went to college and didn’t graduate from high school. I got to college and my coach brought the GED to my room like, ‘Here, you graduated, congratulations.’ Even though it’s a junior college … I never took my SATs coming out of high school. I was playing basketball and this junior college wanted me to come down and play basketball. When I got there, my GED was sitting on the bed waiting for me. I never took a test or anything.”
Navarro College’s current athletic director, Warrick Montgomery, dismissed the rapper’s claims.
“He played basketball. I was here at that time … I was not the athletic director,” Montgomery explained. “I would strongly tell you that that probably didn’t happen. I don’t know how it could happen. Our coaches don’t have access to a complete GED. Like I said, I was not involved, but I would strongly think that didn’t happen.”
Cam’s basketball career ended abruptly due to a hamstring injury, so he went back to New York and got back into rapping. Millions of albums and a legendary crew named the Diplomats later, he now employs people as well as crafts songs.
“To work for me and DukeDaGod — you gotta have a college degree if you want to work for us,” he said. “Neither one of us has a college degree. Well, he does, but I don’t have a high school diploma. So what’s the irony of that? And if you work for us, we’re not hiring you unless you have a degree. And you have to take a drug test. But we don’t have a degree and we smoke weed — it’s irony.”
via MTVNews
April 17th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
yo sister damn i really miss her
April 17th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
is a subpar effort.
^^
I would be inclined to agree with that. Like someone mentioned in the last post, it just doesnt gel as a cohesive LP, and its defintely his worst solo album.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
KILLA.
LOL.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Speaking of weed carriers, if you are a rapper and you’re ever arrested for posession (i.e. Wayne) your weed carriers have failed on every conceivable level. That’s just not supposed to happen.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I don’t even like the back and forth with Styles…One More Step…and I stan for tracks like that usually.
Shootouts >>>>>
One More Step – HOT FUCKING TRASH
April 17th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I actually wish I could watch this….I advocate whole heartedly for college educations…but more than 50% of the people I know who are wildly successful don’t have a college degree.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Im in the twilight zone right now
April 17th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
When I got there, my GED was sitting on the bed waiting for me. I never took a test or anything.”
^^
Cam’Ron >>>
April 17th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
imoutimoutimout
April 17th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
to be honest, I haven’t really analyzed the Kiss yet, so what ya’ll are saying about it getting worse with time might be true. that said, the couple of times I heard it, it sounded good to me. definitely nowhere near as bad as ya’ll are making it out to be. I could’ve def did without a couple of the songs on there though.
*is from Yonkers*
*ain’t trying to hear no bad mouthing of Kiss*
*sticks fingers in ears*
“Blah blah blah blah”
April 17th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
When I got there, my GED was sitting on the bed waiting for me. I never took a test or anything.”
^^
Cam’Ron >>>
>The fact that he drug tests employees is comical.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I advocate whole heartedly for college educations…but more than 50% of the people I know who are wildly successful don’t have a college degree.
^^
Word. College doesnt garuntee wild sucess so much as it kinda garuntees (unless you’re inherent fuck up) stability (hey, you can always teach). College education or no, the only people who acheive high levels of success are those with an insane level of drive and ambition.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Kiss is one of my favorite rappers…it pains me to say it. I want to love the album…and truthfully I want to hate DTR…but the opposite is true for both.
After really listening to kisses shit now for two plus weeks…most of it gets skipped right on through.
Two bangers….maybe 3 more decent tracks….the rest breaks my heart.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
the only people who acheive high levels of success are those with an insane level of drive and ambition.
^I’d say more right place, right time than ambition.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Cam’Ron >>>
>The fact that he drug tests employees is comical.
^I wouldn’t even take that shit seriously if Cam and Duke came to me and was like, alright you’re basically hired, we just need you to submit a urine sample and if that clears, you’ll start monday.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
^I’d say more right place, right time than ambition.
^^
With further thought, I say it’s a pretty even mix. Without some decent level of ambition, you’re most likely not going to be at the right place at the right time.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
yo Dre throw up a pic of your lil sis my dude
April 17th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
>The fact that he drug tests employees is comical.
^I wouldn’t even take that shit seriously if Cam and Duke came to me and was like, alright you’re basically hired, we just need you to submit a urine sample and if that clears, you’ll start monday.
=================================
Comedy.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
With further thought, I say it’s a pretty even mix. Without some decent level of ambition, you’re most likely not going to be at the right place at the right time.
>I know alot of guys with insane drive and ambition who did okay for themselves, but were never rich.
And I know idiots who fell ass backwards into tons of money by being in a convenient spot.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Ross actually says some real shit in that clip.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
And I know idiots who fell ass backwards into tons of money by being in a convenient spot.
ie. Knowing Mason Betha
April 17th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
# Beezy aka BurnTree Madoff Says:
April 17th, 2009 at 2:34 pm e
yo Dre throw up a pic of your lil sis my dude
__________________________________
i dont want you dbags to say disrepectful shit like u slept with her yesterday type shit like you do with sleep, so ill do a comprise…
ill show eskay a pic from her sweet 16 and he’ll tell u she’s not ugly.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
KILLA!!
*bumps it’s nothin*
ayo my whole life i heard go to school, get a education, go to college! what the fuck for? so i can get a job makin 30 thousand a year and pay back my fuckin student loans?? plus how the fuck am i gonna buy lamborghini, ferraris, and go to miami ten times a year?
April 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
ayo my whole life i heard go to school, get a education, go to college! what the fuck for? so i can get a job makin 30 thousand a year and pay back my fuckin student loans?? plus how the fuck am i gonna buy lamborghini, ferraris, and go to miami ten times a year?
^The first time i heard that shit, i felt like a dick, cuz i was fresh outta college making $36k.
Now, I’m in a higher tax bracket and still working my way up, so I’m good.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I ain’t always hustle
I was Mase muscle
April 17th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
THE LAST KISS NEXT SINGLE VIDEO
WHAT IF WOULD BE A GOOD THANG FOR SURE
I THINK DEFJAM NEEDS TO PROMOTE HIS BEST RAPPER
April 17th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Cam’Ron Furst week Crime Pays 100k
April 17th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
*prepares resume for Diplomat records*
*has mad experience in getting computer ‘putin*
*best friend is a connect in Va Beach*
*will wear pink*
April 17th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
ill show eskay a pic from her sweet 16 and he’ll tell u she’s not ugly
^okay, but eskay has to describe her in detail.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
# Geronimo P aka Chase Says:
^The first time i heard that shit, i felt like a dick, cuz i was fresh outta college making $36k.
Now, I’m in a higher tax bracket and still working my way up, so I’m good.
^^
co-sign.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
KILLA
April 17th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
lets compromise…Dre you throw up a pic of lil Dre-ette…and Seth will throw up a pic of his girlfriend.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Anyone here that did not graduate high school?
April 17th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
“To work for me and DukeDaGod — you gotta have a college degree if you want to work for us,” he said. “Neither one of us has a college degree. Well, he does, but I don’t have a high school diploma. So what’s the irony of that? And if you work for us, we’re not hiring you unless you have a degree. And you have to take a drug test. But we don’t have a degree and we smoke weed — it’s irony.”
^^^ dude told two lies in one paragraph. first he said neither he nor duke had a college degree, then he double-backed and admitted that duke has a degree. then by the end of the paragraph, he says “we don’t have a degree” referring to him and duke, going back to his original lie again. why does anyone give this dude an ounce of credibility? LOL @ that retarded story about a community college coach forging a GED for him and leaving it on cam’s bed (nhjic).
April 17th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Cam’Ron Furst week Crime Pays 100k
^^ divide that number by 2.
and if he drops in may as planned, it’s mid-april and he has no buzz single. divide that number by 3 unless he gets a single popping in the next two weeks. which he probably won’t. jim was on pop champagne and debuted with around 30k. cam will be lucky if he does the same number.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Dre how did you sister get a associates at 17?
she graduated high school at 15? when to college at 16?
April 17th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Dre how did you sister get an associate degree (2-year college) at 17?