C_K- I'm fairly sure this piece is analogous to our lives of ant farm monotony. Very strong literal concepts throughout. However, almost every aspect can be applied to our beliefs in the American Dream and the worldwide old time notion of what rewards hard work is due to reap once we've done it long enough. Though, for most of us, we constantly see the lucky ones make it with no such effort. It's depressing. All in all, I love what I think this verse stands for and I believe you nailed all parts of this , but what was conveyed by the topic itself. The notion of enjoying the thought of others being happy. This was more in the vein of much a do about nothing? Like, we work so hard, only to see others get ahead? Either way, dope piece.
JM- What I believe was said here was along the lines of we're corralled into a belief system of what is supposed to make us happy. A system governed by the government and religion. If this is a spot-on assumption, I will say (aside from the obnoxiously rigorous rhyming) I really liked how this panned out. It definitely took some paying attention to and it really spotlighted a lot of the common societal thought process in regards to what is projected over media through government, religion and just the whole media engine as a whole. We're controlled by what we are tricked into thinking is popular belief until it IS popular belief. This shit goes back, obviously to the crusades, town cryers, the tyranny of monarchies etc. Imo this was dope. I think that ending line was more than appropriate btw.
To me this was a terrific showing from both contenders. The content was thick, and for me, this was hard to decide. I'm a huge fan of conspiracy theory-esque stuff and I feel JM bordered that. The rhyming was excessive, but it was clearly impressive. MVGT JM.
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