Julius Caesar - Thug Notes Summary & Analysis

What’s good yo? This week we cryin’
havoc with Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.

In the 1st century BC, Julius
Caesar and his army just cruised back to Rome

after bitch-slappin his rival Pompey. And
now he and his entourage ragin through the

streets to celebrate. It’s all poppin bottles
and smokin kush til some Soothsayer calls

our boy out and say “You best Beware the
Ides of March, yo” but Caesar just shakes

that hater off and rolls another fatty.

Later some busta named Cassius
conversatin with Brutus, Caesar’s main brutha

from another motha. And Cassius be all like
“Caesar gonna become king and he ain’t

even all dat. Dat fool’s got to go. You
feel me?” Brutus dig, but he ain’t happy

bout it. Caesar’s his boy, but he don’t
want no tyrants messin with the Roman peeps.

So he crew up with the cause and the sh**
goes DOWN March 15th.

That day, Caesar bout to leave the
crib when his biddy Calpurnia say “baby

don’t go. I seen some sh** and just KNOW
something whack gonna happen.” He like “oh

sh** word?” But when one of Cassisius’s
thugz roll up, he convinces Caesar his bitch

be trippin, and then say “if you whipped
like dat, you can stay home instead of lettin’

us crown you King. Caesar be like “Hold
up brotha. Don’t be like dat. Let’s do

this.”

As soon as they reach the spot, all
dem traitors whip out their blades and SHANK

his ass. When Caesar sees his bro Brutus join
in, he say “ Aw sh** you too man?” Then

BAM dat fool dead.

At Caesar’s funeral, Brutus try
sweet-talkin the Romans by tellin em that

killin Caesar was a FAVOR to Rome. And at
first, erryone believe him. But Caesar’s

boy Antony ain’t havin none of dat. He rocks
the mic and makes all of Caesar’s killers

look like real assholes. Next thing you know,
the Roman people be burning down houses and

kick Brutus and Cassius to the curb.

So Antony, Octavius Caesar, and some rich
playboy Lepidus start

raisin a swoel army to stomp dem backstabbin’
snitches.

snitches get stiches

sh** goes HAM at the battle of
Philippi, where brothas screamin “187”

on the reg. Then Cassius thinks he see one
of his homeboys Titinius get captured, gets

all torn-up and kills himself. But turns out
ol Titty just fine, but can’t handle Cassius

bein dead, so he decide to take dat long dirt
nap too.

When Brutus’s army gets straight
WRECKED, he decide he gonna stack one more

body- his own. Then Antony roll up to Brutus’s
body and pours one out for our boy sayin he

was the most legit Roman of them all, cuz
unlike the rest of dem backstabbin rats, Brutus

was actin for the good of the hood.

Now if yo bitch-ass thinkin’ you
readin’ straight history up in here, you

best check yo-self. Cuz da bard wasn’t trippin
bout historical accuracy, B. Matter of fact,

some of the details he pulled right out of
his ass-

For example, in the play ol JC
can’t hear sh** out of one ear. And even

though dat ain’t the way it was, Willy Shakes
slangin dat detail to symbolize that although

he can hear all the righteous things people
say bout him, fool is COMPLETELY DEAF to all

the warnings that his boys bout to cross him.

And that’s part of what makes dis
play a tragedy: Caesar’s head is so damn

big that he thinkin he should rock the crown
even though it ain’t rightfully his. Caesar

think he so hard dat ain’t nobody can touch
him- so he don’t listen to nobody: his wife,

da soothsayer- and dat’s why his arrogant
ass ends up in dirt.

Cuz like Cicero say, people only
hear what they wanna hear-

And speakin of hearin’, listen up,
son. Even though the play is called Julius

Caesar, fool gets iced just half way through.
Some scholas think that this play is really about Brutus and he the real tragic hero

Ain’t no doubt that he wanted to put his
boy Caesar six feet deep.

But unlike Cassius, who just a
jealous playa-hater, Brutus was tryin to create

a free Rome with no Tyrants. So as much as
it hurt Brutus to backstab his realest homie,

that wasn’t his tragic flaw. His biggest
mistake. Naw blood. It was rollin w the wrong

crew.

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