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Track Listing
1. Crime Pays Intro
2. Cookin Up
3. Where I Know You From
4. F**k Cam # 1
5. Never Ever
6. Curve
7. Silky (No Homo)
8. Get It In Ohio
9. Who
10. Grease Skit
11. You Know What's Up - (featuring C.O./Sky Lynn)
12. Spend The Night
13. F**k Cam # 2
14. Woo Hoo - (featuring 40 Cal)
15. Chalupa
16. Cookies N Apple Juice - (featuring Byrd Lady/Skitzo)
17. My Job
18. Homicide
19. Fuck Cam # 3
20. Got It For Cheap
21. Get It Get It
22. Bottom Of The P****
23. F**k Cam # 4
Album Notes
Three years after KILLA SEASON was met with mixed receptions, following rifts within his clique and a barrage of industry rumors, the Dipset leader returns with a lot to prove on his long-awaited sixth LP, CRIME PAYS. Lackadaisically boasting over coke-sniffing sound effects that double as percussion on the intro "I got a record company, liquor and clothing line," Cam'ron seems to have long scaled the lonely-at-the-top heights of rap-star/mogul status so that by album six, he finds it a tad boring. However, the brooding arrogance displayed on slow-mo cinematic tracks "Cookin' Up," "Where I Know You From," and "Who" outdoes past efforts. The lyrics of CRIME PAYS reflect a weary sense of the public's relentless love-hate attention and the paranoia that comes with mounting legal troubles and once-strong friendships turned tenuous. Still, Cam shows his mic skills are still there on the straight-forward working-stiff narrative of "My Job" and the autobiographical "Get it Get it."
Industry Reviews
On 'Crime Pays Intro,' and 'Cookin' Up,' he deals references to old-school prop comics and contemporary point guards....He may have kept his gift hidden, but he didn't lose it.
[W]ith inventive rhyme schemes and a well-developed sense of sarcasm. -- Grade: B
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [T]he Harlem MC remains one of hip-hop's most compelling eccentrics, enlivening clichéd gangsta subject matter and pro forma beats with his deceptively virtuosic flow...
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