Cbear you posted multiple times since that post and NOW you wanna bring it back up??
I was on a mobile device and I hate actually typing something meaningful on a mobile.
First off, if i let what people wear bother me i wouldnt be able to listen to ANY music at all.
I listen to lots of music, I even listen to rap. I listen to old school rap though. Back when rappers were lyricists not just rapping about getting paid, and bitches and hoes.
Second off, the way a person talks or dresses does NOT mean they wanna be anything. I dont dress like that... And would never, but that doesnt mean i judge him or anyone else because of how they dress or talk.
How a person dresses and talks and acts means EVERYTHING. I never would dress like that either, because I don't want people to judge me like that. When I walk into a job, if I walked in wearing baggy jeans that were torn up, a blue bandana tied around my head or my arm or my leg, and gold teeth people wouldn't care that I was an interpreter there to do a job, I would be asked to leave. Dressing and acting is your first impression. The first impression is the lasting impression. I'm not saying always wear a suit and tie and blah blah blah, however don't dress like a gangbanger (They are not gangsters, gangsters were from the 20's, 30's, and 40's and they had class and style!) don't act like a gangbanger, and people won't associate you with them.
Third, he has a job and makes BIG money, and the way he dresses and talks is part of his image, and all that helps him make his big money.
Not my money. I don't associate with people like that, and I have no desire to listen to people like that.
4th, where you grew up doesnt mean anything if you stayed inside with your mom and dad the entire time and they made decent money... your still on the outside looking in. Grow up dirt poor, go homeless and hungry, learn to live on the street with those "wannabes" and your attitude has NO choice but to change, you adapt to your surroundings. You wear whatever someone gives you despite how it looks. Just like you and your family worked to get out of poverty, he worked to get out of poverty too, but im betting you started out with a better start, yet he figured out a way to make more money in way less time.....
You were the one that brought the neighborhood into it. I actually DIDN'T have a head start I'll bet. My parents were a single income (below the poverty line) family, on food stamps, and we didn't always even have food or a place to live. I didn't spend my days inside with mom and dad either. I was outside, doing what kids did. Only thing was I wasn't stupid about it. There were kids like that around me, and we got into fights A LOT. That was where I learned I don't fight fair, I fight to win. Even still I never turned into that, I made a conscience decision NOT to be that guy.
Take someone from Britain when they are 10 years old and then move them to Australia. By the time they are 15 their entire accent and wardrobe has started to change, by the time they are 20 a lot of people would never know they were Britain. They are not wannabes, they are simply adapting to their surroundings.
Not liking a type of music is fine, but calling people wannabe gangsters, or a waste of breath, just because of how they talk or dress is prejudice.
This is not a battle i can lose, simply because no one can make me think differently. Same probably for the rest of you... Thats why its best to just let it go
I didn't call him a waste of breath, I called the people I grew up around a waste of breath. I said he needs to find a job that doesn't make him seem like the dredge of society. Plus, if he isn't in a gang, yet is acting like he is that is the quintessential definition of a wannabe, or a poseur if you'd rather I called him that. It makes no difference to me!
It's perfectly fine that you like that type of music, I don't.
To show no hard feelings though here's some rap!
[video=youtube_share;pXhUXAerur8]http://youtu.be/pXhUXAerur8[/video]
