C.R.E.A.M

I grew up on the crime side, the NY Times side....no not really at all, I grew up in the stix, but that is still a sick WU-Tang song. Anyways, I've been noticing more and more people walking around with a cell phone and an iPod. I think to myself, "Doesn't this donkey know that their phone will also play music?" I am sure that they know the phone is very capable of playing music. I mean let's be real here, it's 2011; all phones can at the very least play music. Then I make the mistake of giving them the benefit of the doubt and think "Well maybe they just don't know how to get the music off of iTunes and on to their phone." That thought is quickly nixed with "No, fuck that. This jabroni, instead of spending 12 minutes on the internet, to figure out how to take music from iTunes and transfer it to his blackberry/droid/flip phone that still can hold at least 50 songs that nobody has but if they do they can still put music on it, has gone out and spent 150 on some stupid iPod touch and now is carrying a phone AND an iPod!"

 Here's the thing, if you want to spend money on stupid shit because you are too lazy, I get it. I pay for convenience quite often, but this is just too much. I mean seriously, it's just pure garbage to not just put music on your phone and buy an iPod to carry around. A) Apple does not need more people in its monster-claw grip. B) When I grew up, I grew up listening to music that only spoke about GETTING money, not spending. Of course after you got it it was about spending it on hoes and ounces, but we'll ignore that. But today, music/music videos are nothing but product placement telling subliminally to go out and buy stuff we don't need.  C) What does it say about our nation where all it takes is some stupid commercial and iPods are everywhere. I know this sounds crazy, but I swear to you, I have seen people with an iPhone, and...wait for it....yes, and iPod. We're just a bunch of chumps who see an ad and go buy it. I'm not saying I am any different, lord knows I spend my fair amount of cash on some stupid things, but while our nation is at its debt ceiling, everyone in America is broke, somehow we're out at best buy buying iPods at a rapid rate.

Cash does not rule anything around us, the power of advertising rules everyone of us.