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HOST: Yo! What it do?! This week on Thug Notes we gettin'

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love struck with <i>Romeo 
and Juliet</i> 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 <i>The Most Excellent...</i>

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<i>and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.</i>

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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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