Puff Daddy, Mase, and Notorious B.I.G. wrote an amazingly hypocritical song about money; Method Man (and the rest of the Wu Tang Clan) had it really figured out

Things I don’t have in common with the Wu-Tang Clan:

• Never been a part of a Gang/Hip Hop crew (as of May 2008).
• Not really an inner city youth facing institutionalized racism.
• Unlike the Wu-Tang Clan, only minor run-ins with the law.
• No experience with slangin’/using sess, crack rocks, woolies, bones, etc.

Things I DO have in common with the Wu-Tang Clan:

• I totally agree with their view on money.
• Street cred (?).

“Cash rules everything around me: C.R.E.A.M.”
“Get the money. Dolla’ dolla’ bills y’all.”

Dood…money has this way of getting a hold of you and taking over. Well, at least for me. I thought that I was somehow above money and all this materialistic business that I saw so many other people chasing after. This was when I was idealistically naive and haven’t experienced money at all. Now, making money seems to be one of my prime and growing objectives in life; and it’s pushing more important matters to the side.

I want to sit around a study philosophy, religion, and history. I really want to wrestle with the larger issues and inherent struggles of the complexities of being human; to apply the Greek principle of phrenesis: really figuring out how one should live a good life, and then to actually live it out. I want to explore the outer world as much as I want to explore the inner self; but all of that is getting washed away by the constant desire to make money; to make a lot of it and make it quick. And that’s the dilemma.

I really don’t want to equate money to hapiness (or any other factor), but I see myself doing that more and more. [More $ = More (any other factor)]. It’s a simple formula that I see myself doing. I made a chart of this to further illustrate this point [Fig. 1a - See Below]. I really want to be like my idealistic self; I don’t want to merely talk about how money is the root of evil like “P. Diddy”, I want to actually throw my financial security to the wind and actually do those things. And there’s the struggle; actually doing it.

Writing a song about making a lot of money and enjoying it, while titling it “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems” had to have been one of the more hypocritical moves in human history. Dammit P. Diddy, you just want to apply catchy hooks no matter what. For shame Sean “Puffy” Combs…for shame…