WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (violin music) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What up, G? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Welcome back to Thug Notes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This week, we're keepin' it Victorian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This book tells the story of Pip, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a street kid who be shackin' 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with his crooked sister 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and her hubby Joe. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One day while paying his respects 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 at his parents' grave, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a cracked-out convict rolls up to him 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and demands some food 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and a nail-file to escape his chains. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Pip helps a brother out 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but later sees that fool 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 get got by the police. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Later, an uppity cracker named Pumblechook 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 arranges for Pip to kick it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with a rich broad named Miss Havisham 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and her adopted daughter Estella. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now Estella may be fine 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but she be acting a straight cock-tease 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to my boy Pip. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Pip be thinkin' that Miss Havisham want to prime him 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to get paid like a gentleman, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but she shuts his ass down 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and tells him to hustle as a blacksmit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with his poor Uncle Joe. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Then one day some lawyer named Jaggers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 tells Pip that he about to get paid 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and inherit a swole fortune. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So Pip kicks Joe's poor ass to the curb 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and heads to London 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 where he gonna learn to be a player. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Pip be thinkin' that Miss Havisham gave him all that cash 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so maybe she be preppin' him to marry Estella. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One night, Pip be visited 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 by some playa named Abel Magwitch 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who turns out to be the convict 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 from the graveyard. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He tells Pip that it was him 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who gave him all them stacks of cash. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now Pip be wiggin' out 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that he ain't bein' primed to marry Estella. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So he rolls up to that ho Havisham's crib 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and confesses his love for Estella. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But that hood rat shuts this stunner down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Years later, Pip done f***ed up 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and ends up boned out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Uncle Joe does Pip one last solid 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and pays off all his debt. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now Pip be feeling like a fool 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 for dissin' him all those years ago. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So Pip decide to stop frontin' with them rich folk 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and keep it real with the boy who got his back. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Then one day while 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 peepin' the ol' Havisham crib, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Pip runs into Estella 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who be off the short leashes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of her ex-husband and Havisham 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and decide she want to be cool with Pip. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 At the end of the book, Pip say 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he saw no shadow of another parting from her. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now one of the main things 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 my boy Charlie D trying to say up in here 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is if you makin' big ass assumptions 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 about what the future holds 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you sure as hell got another thing comin', homeboy. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can see this here disconnect 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 between expectations and reality 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in the character of Havisham. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This broad always wearin' 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a old, crusty wedding dress 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 even though she ain't been married! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's like she walkin' around everyday 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 showin' that she was expecting way more 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 out of life than she actually got. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Likewise, Pip 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 always expecting righteous things to happen to him 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like Miss H makin' him a gentleman 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and getting freaky with that girl Estella 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But this stunner is blind 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to the peeps that actually got his back. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 For example, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when Pip finds out 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it was Abel that gave him those stacks of cash 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and not that hag Havisham 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he gets all crunk 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'cause it ain't what he expected 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when on the real 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he should be geeked up 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that he got himself a sugar daddy. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Another theme up in here 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is that having mad money 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 corrupts your mind 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and your social relations. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Before Pip becomes a rich playboy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that giddy cat Pumblechook 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 be disrespecting him all the time 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but after Pip makes bank 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Pumblechook starts treatin' him 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like the man. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Also when my boy Pip gets them fat pockets 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he starts dissing Joe 'cause he all poor. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 On page 197, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Pip says he would even pay 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to get Joe's weak ass out of his face 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in spite of the fact 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that on page 127 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Pip straight-up calls this stunner an "angel!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Mmm. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 More money, more problems, blood. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Consider this sh*t right here. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Conflicting values in this player's life 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 be shown through the images of stars 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and fire. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That chick Estella's name 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 comes from a Latin word 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that means 'star'. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Whereas my man Joe 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 be associated with the forge and fireplace. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 My hunky Dickins links that hoe with stars 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'cause while those stars may be pretty, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they straight-up unreachable, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 just like Pip's romantic expectations. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But on the other hand, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 fire is of the Earth 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and Dickins links fire to him 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to emphasize that down-home feeling 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of life in the hood 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 without wackass delusions. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yo, thanks for watching Thug Notes, blood. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hit subscribe and tune in next week.