While hip-hop music executives gathered this week to talk about misogynistic lyrics, Cam'ron has decided to stir up another hip-hop-related subject that is rife with controversy.

Cam'ron

In an interview with 60 Minutes to air on Sunday night, the rapper tells correspondent Anderson Cooper that his code of ethics would prevent him helping police solve a case, even if he knew that there was a serial killer living next door to him.

"If I knew the serial killer was living next door to me?" Cam'ron--real name Cameron Giles--responded to a hypothetical question posed by Cooper. "I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him--but I'd probably move. But I'm not going to call and be like, 'The serial killer's in 4E.'"

Snitching to the police, even on a serial killer, would violate Giles' "code of ethics," he said, and it would also be bad for his business.

"But then again, you're not going to be on the stage tonight in the middle of, say, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, with people with gold and platinum teeth and dreadlocks jumping up and down singing your songs, either," he told Cooper. "We're in two different lines of business."

"So for you, it's really about business?" Cooper asked.

"It's about business," Giles replied, "but it's still also a code of ethics."

Busta Rhymes

The "stop snitching" issue, where residents of urban neighborhoods have stayed mum on crime either to avoid retaliation or simply to protect members of the community, has taken on a new light in recent years, particularly as some high-profile rappers have chosen to stay silent in cases in which they were directly involved.

The most prominent of those has been Busta Rhymes, who has refused to cooperate in the February 2006 murder of his bodyguard Israel Ramirez and has been in trouble with the law on a regular basis since then. Busta--real name Trevor Smith--has been arrested numerous times in the past year, and many have blamed his string of arrests on his refusal to cooperate with the NYPD in its investigation.