Five Hip-hop Mysteries

5. Cam’Ron shooting and Stop Snitching

On October 23 2005 Cam’ron was shot during an alleged car jacking. He was driven to the hospital by a fan were he made a full recovery. Cam’Ron used this incident to further his Stop Snitching campaign which focused on individuals not talking or assisting police. Cam’Ron stated how he would not help police find out who shot him because he didn’t believe in “Snitching” how ever after the shooting Cam’Ron filed a police report stating the car jacking was by 15 black males which is clearly not enough to pin point the shooter. Due to Cam’Ron being completely uncooperative the police never arrested a suspect. Some claim Cam’Ron staged the shooting in order to gain publicity could this be true?

4. Did Jay-Z really stab Un?

In 1999 Jay-Z allegedly stabbed Lance “Un” Riveria at the Kit Kat Club. Initially Jay-Z claimed not guilty before later changing his plea to guilty earning him 3 years of probation. Despite Jay-Z pleading guilty there has always been speculation to whether or not he did it. In Nas’s song Ether he states your man stabbed ‘Un’ and made you take the blame” further adding to the speculation that Jay-Z may have been innocent all along.

3. Did P.Diddy set up Shyne?

On December 27 1999 P.Diddy his girlfriend at the time Jennifer Lopez and former Bad Boy artist and protege to P.Diddy Shyne were involved in a shooting which resulted in 3 people being shot. Diddy and Shyne were both arrested for gun various gun charges however all the charges against Diddy were dropped and Shyne was sent to jail for first degree assault which he is currently serving a 10 year sentence for. Shynes lawyer was able to confirm that none of the bullets found in the victims were from Shyne’s gun. So if Shyne never actually shot anybody but people were in fact shot why didn’t anybody ever try to convict Diddy? Diddy released Shynes debut album upon Shyne going to prison and with the shooting adding publicity it debuted number 5 on the billboard charts. After the release of the album Shyne was dropped from Bad Boy records. That’s really not the way you treat somebody who is allegedly in jail for defending you.