yeah, but in fairness, being as this is what the rap industry is supposedly about now. If Jermaine went around in a sub-compact, singing "money at a thang," he would have been CLOWNED by the "industry" elites (probably on Twitter), along with the public (the kids buying into this flashy stuff). These people, like I once read someone else say online, are selling the dream the folk paying for their "music" want to escape to. Most folk buying their music WANT to imagine a world were money grows on trees. They don’t want to hear anything about car payments. That’s THEIR REAL LIFE. Most of us turn on reality tv, blogs, movies, music to ESCAPE our real lives, not delve into the crummy real lives of our entertainment. He couldn’t have "sold the dream" if he wasn’t out and about "living it." ….Would’ve ruined those paying to go to his concert’s reality. We KNOW superheros don’t exist…peep what kind of movies are breaking banks at the box offices though. Same with sex. Eazy E is the ONLY one whose died of AIDS, yet ALL of these rappers, basketball players, etc are going around bragging CONSTANTLY about how they’re beating Wilt Chamberlain’s numbers (of conquests)…at least I THINK it was Wilt who said he’d been with over 200 women or something. I know it’s not everybody, but some young males think of this and go…WOW…so they live vicariously through the JD’s. They’ll likely never be able to afford a lambo, but they will readily pay up to go to a JD concert to feel like they’re "about that LIfE."

I’m not above it, just wanted to try to kind of think of it in a real way…I would that they would clip coupons and be finnicky, but I’m not really the one they’re selling that music too, wrong demographic. I belong more to "the perfect asthetic" demographic…i.e. I don’t want to see a superhero chick on the screen who looks no better than me right now…I do NOT want to see ME blown up to some HD type magnification, my mirror picks up enough flaws. So see, different demographic, different lie sold to said demographic. If illusion weren’t the biz right now, and we were ALL SO ABOVE JD and what not, then tell me, why we have a multi-billion dollar make-up, fake hair, fake nail, fake eye-color, height-enhancement (painful stillettos), SPANX-driven mindset ourselves. We lift and pad our bras, let’s not go TOO in on Jermaine Dupri. We’re all faking it in someway!! LOL!!!