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HOST: Yo! What it do?! This week on Thug Notes we gettin'
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love struck with Romeo
and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
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Up in the swanky part of Verona,
two families called the Montagues
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and the Capulets been beefin' since forever.
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After dodgin' a all-out war in the streets,
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big daddy Montague and his boo, Lady
Montague, start talkin'
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bout their emo son, Romeo,
who got it baaaad for some fox, Rosaline.
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But Rosaline ain't feelin' it.
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And now Romeo mopin' around
like he done lost his nuts.
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So Romeo's homie-os, Benvolio
and Mercutio, try to get his mind off
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that trick by crashin' a party
over at the Capulets' crib.
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But as soon as Romeo peeps
the most-tappable ass
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of Juliet Capulet, he forgets
all about that Rosalineness
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and steps up to holla' like a champ.
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Romeo loves himself some fast
women so he drops his A-game,
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gets a little lip action, and snags
those digits! Get it, Romeo!
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Then Romeo creeps up to Juliet's balcony.
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Turns out she bats**t
crazy in love with him too!
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But since their families got so much beef,
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they gotta keep it all on the D.L.
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Next day, Romeo and Juliet
run off to local preacher man
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Friar Laurence's spot and get hitched!
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Later, Benvolio and Mercutio
takin' it easy when Tybalt,
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the baddest mo-fo of all the Capulets,
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steps up and starts talkin' [s**t].
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Mercutio boot up and start scrappin' with Tybalt
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till Romeo bustses in and tries to break it up!
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But Romeo just gets in the way
and Tybalt shanks Mercutio.
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Damn!
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Romeo goes from whiny bitch
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to the hardest thug in the streets
and straight merks Tybalt.
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The Prince of Verona had
it with all this gang violence,
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so he boots Romeo right outta town!
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When Juliet's momma say she gotta marry
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some candy-ass scrub named
Paris, Juliet gets all torn up
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and hits up Friar Laurence for some help.
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Fri Daddy comes up with
the plan to fake Juliet's death
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by givin' her some juice that
makes her take a long ass nap!
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Then he gonna write Romeo
a letter, sayin' all he has to do
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is play it cool and once Juliet wakes up,
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Romeo will have a lifetime
supply of poontang.
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Problem is... the letter never makes it to Romeo!
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So when he hears Juliet bit the dust,
he thinks this [s**t]'s for real!
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Romeo straight flips!
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So he rolls up to Juliet's crypt,
peeps her layin' stiff,
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and throws back some poison.
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When Juliet wakes up
and sees his dead body,
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she gets all crump, grabs a knife, and kills herself.
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Teenagers, man. Damn!
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Peep this motif, blood!
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Willy Shake's flippin' opposites all up in this play.
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Love, hate, youth, age, life, death...
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I ain't even trippin'.
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Even characters got opposites.
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For example, while Benvolio
be all chill and peace-lovin',
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Tybalt always comin' out hard,
tryna throw down.
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Sheee*t! You can even peep
these paradoxes in the text, B.
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"My only love sprung from my only hate."
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"My grave is like to be my wedding bed."
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But Willy ain't just playin'!
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All these clashin' opposites makin'
that dramatic action mo' intense!
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Listen up, partna!
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The full title of this play is The Most Excellent...
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and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
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'Cept, is it really a tragedy?
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Some homies don't think so.
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See in most tragedies, the characters got something
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in their dome that's so [f**k]ed up,
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that no matter what, they gonna
end up feelin' the hurt.
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Peeps called this: The Tragic Flaw.
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Thang is, some thugs say Romeo and Juliet
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ain't rollin' with no tragic flaws!
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It ain't their fault that [s**t] gets so cray!
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But what is tragic is that something
else is trippin' up their game:
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Chance.
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All throughout this play, fate
doin' our lovers straight dirty.
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Just look at all deez ridiculous coincidences.
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That letter don't find Romeo,
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the Friar too late in stoppin' 'em,
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Juliet wakes up right after
Romeo bit the Big One,
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I could go on, playa!
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So when the prologue sayin'
that these kids be star-crossed,
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maybe it's cuz' the heavens
got it in for these fools.
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But maybe it ain't fate so much as it is
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kids actin' like stupid little [s**ts].
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Some say Romeo and Juliet's tragic flaw
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be a love all insane in the membrane!
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And they willin' to do anything to keep it real.
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Even Friar Laurence say
that [s**t] a sin.
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"These violent delights have violent ends. /
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And in their triumph,
die like fire and powder, /
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which, as they kiss, consume.
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The sweetest honey is loathsome
in his own deliciousness. /
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And in the taste confounds the appetite. /
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Therefore love moderately.
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Love love doth so. /
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Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
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Could be they ain't sinnin' at all,
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but that the world that they
live in is just too twisted
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to deal with the love as pure as theirs.
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Maybe it ain't our lovers that got the flaw, son.
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Maybe it's the world.
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But all scholars agree it will be a damn tragedy
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if you didn't subscribe. Peace, ya'll!
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