OH shit! it's 1989 all over again!!!

 for real tho, at least make sure your boombox is 
 presentable.For example, the volume knob missing:
 NOT really a good representation of balla status.
 Also, no CD player ? wait a minute...SERIOUSLY?!
 I just realized that, come on dawg.What are you
 rockin', Cassette tapes? DUDE, you could have a
 car with a man with a gun to your head giving you
 10 minutes to find a store that sells blank cassette
 tapes.Guess what? you may as well roll up the window
 so you can give bystanders a splash show when the
 gun-man pops you for failure.

I don't know, man, maybe he thinks ipods are too
 "white and sissy". Or maybe he's just a purist of
 analog audio technology, Or maybe he just wants to
 be loud and seen. I ain't mad at that though, I'm loud,
 seen and scene (before I cut my hair). But I'm at least
 going to be somewhat relevant to modern times. Can't
 be walking around like a dinosaur of technology and
 thinking it's cool. I mean, there's retro and then
 there's ghettro.
  

I didn't think people still did this, walk around with super loud stereos on their shoulders, volume 10 on public transportation.There's a lot of strategically placed red on the guy, so I'm assuming he either is,or thinks, he's gang affiliated.Then again, he looked about in his 40s, But gangsta do get that old out there in California . That would explain a lot though, Homeboy is stuck in the past, maybe that's when life was better: Being in his 20s in the 80s. I can totally relate to that, hell, I'm probably going to be still wearing shorts and tanktops in my 60s.