Cam'Ron, Make Good Music ThisTime Please

It's been about 3 years since we've heard anything from Cam'Ron, and I guess he needed to take a sabbatical. He managed to piss off a little bit of everyone. Jay-Z, the CEO of his record label; the other members of his Dipset crew; and even the American people, by claiming in an interview that he wouldn't alert authorities if he knew for a fact that a serial killer lived in his neighborhood. Top this off with his mother's multiple strokes, and you can understand why he took a break.

But, he's back, and planning to release a new album entitled Crime Pays in May. The rapper has personally leaked several of the album's tracks already, including "Cookies and Apple Juice", which is simplistic and raunchy, but less lazy than virtually everything the rapper dropped for Roc-A-Fella. "I Used to Get it in Ohio" (for which there is a music video) is less impressive, but I still have a small amount of hope that Cam'Ron could return to top form with this and future releases.