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HOST: What's good, playas?!

This week we chiefin' some of that Middle Earth scroll with The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.

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Down in the hood of Bag End lives a hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins.

Now hobbits be little shawties that don't like to do nothin' but keeping chill and get they grub on.

One day, some nappy wizard name of Gandalf

drops into this crib rolling 13 dwarves deep.

Gandalf and the head dwarf, Thorin, ask Bilbo to go on an adventure

Turns out some punk-ass dragon named Smaug done boosted all them dwarfs' bling

and be shackin' on their turf over at The Lonely Mountain.

So they 'bout to go lay a whoop on that dragon, know what I mean?

But Bilbo don't want to do s**t except stay home,

smoke some trees, and take it easy.

So Gandalf and his boys have to get that fool's ass and get.

Now after scrabblin' with some weak ass trolls and chillin' with some pointy eared playas,

Bilbo and his peeps roll up to The Misty Mountain,

where some goblins start beefin' with his boys,

making everyone scatter across the mountain.

Lost in the tunnels, Bilbo finds a phat ring, just chillin' on the ground.

Then he peeps some janky scrub name Gollum creepin' on his s**t.

After serving this fool up, Bilbo uses the ring's invisibility power to escape the tunnels,

and meet back up wit his crew.

Seeing how Bilbo be strutting like a boss, them dwarves be givin' him mad respect.

Then all them playas arrive at The Lonely Mountain

where Smaug be chillin' with his stash.

Bilbo puts on the ring, sneaks into the dragon's lair,

and boosts some of his ice.

When Smaug realize that somebody be ganking his swag, he goes hyphy in this bitch, and starts

tearin' up the nearby towns where he gets his s**t wrecked by some playa named Bard.

Now that Smaug be dead, them humans say,

"Yo, since the dragon jacked up our crib, we want some of that cheddar."

But Thorin be all like,

"Nah blood, I ain't giving y'all s**t."

So them homies 'bout to war with the dwarves

when Gandalf drops in and says,

"Break yoself, fool! Wargs and goblins 'bout to brawl up in here."

So all them playas: men, elves, and dwarves,

strap up and wreck them haters.

But in the end, Thorin gets shanked.

On his deathbed, Thorin goes out like a G and admits to Bilbo that he'd been actin' a fool.

Then Bilbo takes only the cash he can carry,

and finds his way home back to Bag End.

There, and back again. You heard?

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At the beginning of this book, Bilbo be acting like

a little ol' bitch cause he ain't got the balls to get off his hairy ass and get his adventure on.

I'm just sayin'.

But as things start gettin' real,

Bilbo ups his game and starts keepin' it gangsta.

Like when he saves the dwarves from them crusty-ass spiders,

he not only clockin' some mad courage,

but he straight up sacrificin' himself to draw them spiders away from his boys.

So by the end, shawty don't want to be a thug; he straight up is one.

Look, if you want to get this s**t all the way turnt up,

you best recognize the importance of dragon sickness --

a term Tolkien used to describe Smaug's obsession with that fat cash.

When Bilbo and his posse roll up to The Lonely Mountain,

they find that all that once green land, is now all busted up.

But it ain't all about the physical aspect, my man. Naw!

This here detail serves as a metaphor for

the destructive nature of greed, homeboy.

In fact, all them homies get a little taste of 'Dragon Sickness'.

For example, Thorin be sippin' too much of that haterade when

them elves ask him for some cash to rebuild their crib...

So when big daddy dwarf gets merked in the end,

he ain't got nobody to blame but himself.

If you think this idea of greed and self-destruction

only applied to the dragon and Thorin,

you just ain't doin' it big, son.

When them trolls get their asses turnt to stone, it ain't because Gandalf whoopin' 'em.

Nah, blood, it's the trolls' tendency to fight amongst themself that allows Gandalf to bust 'em up.

So on the real, them trolls are undone by they own evil.

And if you wanna keep it triple-O.G. up in here,

you best peep at the amount of connections between this book,

and The Ring Cycle, by my man, Richard Wagner.

Consider these two quotes, son.

"Only he who foreswears love's power

could win the world's wealth for his own."

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song

above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

At the end of The Hobbit, that fool Thorin

finally realizes that stackin' fat cash,

means you droppin' other values like courage and wisdom.

Yet, in Das Rheingold, my boy Richie Dub,

sayin' that you can only make bank if you drop them values first.

It's like they preachin' the same cold truth,

except backwards, know what I mean?

Hey, thanks for tuning in, blood, keep it real and press subscribe.

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