Unagi anyone?

"Men have a kind of eel on them. This eel spends its entire life looking for a home,and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eel likes to live. When eels find a cave they like, they wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that... well, to be sure its a nice cave. And when they make up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory... by spitting" now parents, thats how you tell it to your kids, you dig? Thanks to "Memoirs of a Geisha" fer the valuable input.

Bling bling, benzs and hummers, 21 inch giovanni rims and cristal, now what comes to mind? Certainly, for me Hip Hop is the name of the game, but whilst I enjoy the music there are elements of this culture that leaves much to be desired. Jus last night, MTV was doin a program on 50Cent and he had this humongous ring filled with diamonds that I'm sure would've out blinged every single hip hop artist. Why the ring? Like I've said to out bling others, he likes it that way or cause he jus has too much money to spend?

Almost every single hip hop artiste started out from obscurity while battling it out in some tough neighbourhood. Havin cut an album and makin it in life, all of a sudden you get these people rappin and singin bout flashy cars, bling bling and parties with the chicks. So not only will you hear bout such lifestyles, you'll also see these people living it, as evident on the program on MTV last night. This ridiculous amount of flashiness may seem like a novelty but personally, I feel that it all boils down to an inferiority complex.

With their ancestors as slaves and them being known as "second class" citizens, certainly "black" people have much to prove. By wearing those spinnin diamond necklaces and driving a lambo with oversized "shoes", its the artists' way of tellin the world hes made it as a black person. You dun see britney spears all decked out in diamonds from head to toe do you?

No other music genre comes close to hip hop in the business of showing off and its no conicidence that hip hop is domintaed by "black" people. You may choose to see it as part of the culture of hip hop but its really been taken to such a level so much so that I can't help but see them as tryin too hard to prove themselves.