WEBVTT 00:00:12.316 --> 00:00:14.190 I'm coming off the Acropolis 00:00:14.190 --> 00:00:15.815 to start some pandemonium 00:00:15.815 --> 00:00:17.198 don't bring limp raps 00:00:17.198 --> 00:00:18.995 to a pimp slap symposium 00:00:18.995 --> 00:00:20.136 the mad gadfly 00:00:20.136 --> 00:00:21.809 philosophy was my invention 00:00:21.809 --> 00:00:23.673 rolling with the flyest nihilist 00:00:23.673 --> 00:00:25.393 and me their French henchman 00:00:25.393 --> 00:00:26.014 we've got the wisdom 00:00:26.014 --> 00:00:26.568 and the wit 00:00:26.568 --> 00:00:28.316 that even I couldn't question 00:00:28.316 --> 00:00:29.924 dropping Western medicine 00:00:29.924 --> 00:00:31.611 on these East infections 00:00:31.611 --> 00:00:32.574 it's evident 00:00:32.574 --> 00:00:33.329 you've never been 00:00:33.329 --> 00:00:35.048 our type of mental brethren 00:00:35.048 --> 00:00:35.948 we're better thinkers 00:00:35.948 --> 00:00:36.828 better speakers 00:00:36.828 --> 00:00:37.606 better lovers 00:00:37.606 --> 00:00:38.545 better men 00:00:38.545 --> 00:00:39.775 This type of arrogance 00:00:39.775 --> 00:00:41.189 is sure to be expected 00:00:41.189 --> 00:00:42.681 from men who speak of wisdom 00:00:42.681 --> 00:00:44.398 with no clue of what respect is 00:00:44.398 --> 00:00:46.087 you Westerners are sloppy 00:00:46.087 --> 00:00:47.632 needing discipline in life 00:00:47.632 --> 00:00:49.444 you lack control of yourselves 00:00:49.444 --> 00:00:50.813 and of the mic 00:00:50.813 --> 00:00:52.109 while we use precise strikes 00:00:52.109 --> 00:00:53.975 to disrupt your concentration 00:00:53.975 --> 00:00:55.079 hand you an ass whipping 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:55.795 our descendants 00:00:55.795 --> 00:00:57.085 will honor for generations 00:00:57.085 --> 00:00:58.087 we filled a nation 00:00:58.087 --> 00:00:58.834 with patience 00:00:58.834 --> 00:00:59.580 and the presence 00:00:59.580 --> 00:01:00.388 for living 00:01:00.388 --> 00:01:01.812 and you'll never hold a candle 00:01:01.812 --> 00:01:02.875 to the wisdom 00:01:02.875 --> 00:01:03.233 we've 00:01:03.233 --> 00:01:03.795 written 00:01:03.795 --> 00:01:05.085 Oh, I'll give you something 00:01:05.085 --> 00:01:06.927 you can bow and kowtow to 00:01:06.927 --> 00:01:08.552 when I squat down and squeeze out 00:01:08.552 --> 00:01:10.220 a Tao of Pooh on Lao Tzu 00:01:10.220 --> 00:01:12.041 you need to take control 00:01:12.041 --> 00:01:13.115 of the life you're given 00:01:13.115 --> 00:01:14.630 they call me Ubermensch 00:01:14.630 --> 00:01:15.664 cause I'm so driven 00:01:15.664 --> 00:01:17.320 and I'm a free thinker 00:01:17.320 --> 00:01:18.782 so confronting conformists like you 00:01:18.782 --> 00:01:20.227 it's my job 00:01:20.227 --> 00:01:20.819 got a sharp wit like a spit 00:01:20.819 --> 00:01:21.547 that'll skewer you 00:01:21.547 --> 00:01:22.886 like a Confu-shish kebab 00:01:22.886 --> 00:01:24.401 you flubbed the mission 00:01:24.401 --> 00:01:25.147 I'm beating your submissive ass 00:01:25.147 --> 00:01:26.018 into submission 00:01:26.018 --> 00:01:26.897 dishing out more disses 00:01:26.897 --> 00:01:28.442 than letters and pamphlets and plays 00:01:28.442 --> 00:01:29.282 I've been publishing 00:01:29.282 --> 00:01:30.426 now that we've covered the two 00:01:30.426 --> 00:01:30.999 Yin and Yang twins 00:01:30.999 --> 00:01:32.104 I can move on to Jackie Chan 00:01:32.104 --> 00:01:33.914 Sun Tzu I'll be picking apart your Wu 00:01:33.914 --> 00:01:34.917 with my method, man 00:01:34.917 --> 00:01:36.300 the seminal general 00:01:36.300 --> 00:01:37.240 isn't so tough on the mic 00:01:37.240 --> 00:01:38.244 all your men must be like 00:01:38.244 --> 00:01:38.866 yo what happened? 00:01:38.866 --> 00:01:39.501 you're pitiful lyrically 00:01:39.501 --> 00:01:40.280 lucky for history 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:41.331 you didn't author The Art of Rapping 00:01:41.331 --> 00:01:43.654 Bitch I wrote the Art of War 00:01:43.654 --> 00:01:45.373 so you better get your guns out 00:01:45.373 --> 00:01:46.407 these white boys getting burned 00:01:47.073 --> 00:01:47.820 cause guess what 00:01:47.820 --> 00:01:48.760 now the Sun's out 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:50.050 Asians spitting sick 00:01:50.050 --> 00:01:51.389 but no this isn't SARS 00:01:51.389 --> 00:01:53.037 Laozi kick the beat 00:01:53.037 --> 00:01:54.919 now Confucius drop some bars 00:01:54.919 --> 00:01:56.761 let me be Candide with you Voltaire 00:01:56.761 --> 00:01:58.306 French drip with the egg noodle hair 00:01:58.306 --> 00:02:00.056 your ego's just so distracting 00:02:00.056 --> 00:02:01.518 free speech doesn't mean just keep yapping 00:02:01.518 --> 00:02:02.807 and you killed God so I gotta ask 00:02:02.807 --> 00:02:03.778 did he die of shame 00:02:03.778 --> 00:02:04.719 when he made your mustache? 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:06.438 you tried to plant a new German psyche 00:02:06.438 --> 00:02:06.991 but you just grew hate 00:02:06.991 --> 00:02:07.852 me no Third Reichy 00:02:07.852 --> 00:02:09.027 and it all starts with you 00:02:09.027 --> 00:02:10.766 you're the father Socrates 00:02:10.766 --> 00:02:12.136 honestly I think you owe 00:02:12.136 --> 00:02:14.011 both of your students here an apology 00:02:14.011 --> 00:02:15.789 I wouldn't exactly call myself 00:02:15.789 --> 00:02:17.252 a student of this plebe 00:02:17.252 --> 00:02:18.643 don't make Nietzsche come over 00:02:18.643 --> 00:02:20.353 and put a knee up in your chi 00:02:20.353 --> 00:02:21.325 cause I'm 00:02:21.325 --> 00:02:23.554 N-I-E-T-Z-S-C-H-E 00:02:23.554 --> 00:02:25.108 and I'll end any mother fucker 00:02:25.108 --> 00:02:27.116 like my name in a spelling bee 00:02:27.116 --> 00:02:28.024 plebe bitch? 00:02:28.024 --> 00:02:29.765 I'm toxic like a hemlock sip 00:02:29.765 --> 00:02:31.421 hang a sandal on the door 00:02:31.421 --> 00:02:32.814 cause you can suck Soc's dick 00:02:32.814 --> 00:02:34.951 sacré bleu Socrates 00:02:34.951 --> 00:02:36.301 you're making things a little tense 00:02:36.301 --> 00:02:38.021 come let's blind these Chinese heinies 00:02:38.021 --> 00:02:39.707 with some shiny bright enlightenment 00:02:39.707 --> 00:02:41.262 I'll not be taught camaraderie 00:02:41.262 --> 00:02:42.646 from a frog who rigged the lottery 00:02:42.646 --> 00:02:43.975 you make a mockery of ethics 00:02:43.975 --> 00:02:45.756 so keep your fat nose in your coffee 00:02:45.756 --> 00:02:47.085 let me be frank 00:02:47.085 --> 00:02:49.120 don't start beef with the Frank 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:50.685 who hangs with B. Franks 00:02:50.685 --> 00:02:52.262 giving ladies beef franks 00:02:52.262 --> 00:02:53.879 I have turned them on themselves 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:55.596 their chaos is our opportunity 00:02:55.596 --> 00:02:56.506 we must remember 00:02:56.506 --> 00:02:58.941 a bowl is most useful when it is empty 00:02:58.941 --> 00:03:01.848 Laozi I don't mean no disrespect 00:03:01.848 --> 00:03:03.299 but you need to fill your bowl 00:03:03.299 --> 00:03:05.144 with some shit that makes some sense 00:03:05.144 --> 00:03:08.231 oh you don't wanna stand 00:03:08.231 --> 00:03:09.583 in the path of Lao Tzu today 00:03:09.583 --> 00:03:10.237 I'll make you move bitch 00:03:10.237 --> 00:03:11.618 get out the way 00:03:11.618 --> 00:03:14.532 yo, where in the tradition 00:03:14.532 --> 00:03:15.218 of rap battles is it written 00:03:15.218 --> 00:03:16.120 that two dudes on the same team 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:16.999 should squabble 00:03:16.999 --> 00:03:18.000 like some clucking chickens 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:19.004 man Confucius 00:03:19.004 --> 00:03:20.130 you always try to put 00:03:20.130 --> 00:03:21.071 something in its place 00:03:21.071 --> 00:03:22.625 why don't you tell your eyebrows 00:03:22.625 --> 00:03:24.017 they need to fit better on your face 00:03:24.017 --> 00:03:25.970 okay I see 00:03:25.970 --> 00:03:27.228 you wanna make it like that? 00:03:27.228 --> 00:03:28.897 I'll smack that warmongering head 00:03:28.897 --> 00:03:30.390 out of your to go box hat 00:03:30.390 --> 00:03:32.079 so here's the real golden rule 00:03:32.079 --> 00:03:34.022 I'm way above you weak rookies 00:03:34.022 --> 00:03:34.955 Confucius say 00:03:34.955 --> 00:03:36.518 you can all hold these fortune cookies 00:03:36.518 --> 00:03:40.498 What is winning? 00:03:40.498 --> 00:03:43.302 Who is next? 00:03:43.302 --> 00:03:44.723 You decide