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A play on the idiom You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink which means that you can give someone the opportunity to learn or to do something, but you can never force him to accept that opportunity.

Aesop states that leading people into a city won’t assure they will be courteous or take advantage of the situation. As residents of a city could ideally support one another and create a pleasant place to live, but that is rarely the case because people won’t reach for that goal and grab the opportunity.

The line following states the same thing, except of Aesop’s music. That anyone can hear it but not everyone will take the opportunity to listen to it. You can keep throwing it to them and bashing their heads in with your music but we all know that won’t get you anywhere…

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By the Throat follows Eyedea’s struggles with a close personal relationship with another person. The song is about an ex-lover of Eyedeas who he had a serious relationship and friendship with.

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Aesop attempted to forget his issues with an individual and make peace. However, letting down his guard to do so only made him vulnerable and made him weaker.

This is both a reference to stigmas and stigmatas.

Stigmas
A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person: “the stigma of mental disorder”.

Stigmatas
Stigmata are bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ, such as the hands and feet. In some cases, rope marks on the wrists have accompanied the wounds on the hands.

  • Essentially these wounds are suppose to be holy signs or marks of success to some but to most they are marks of failure. Aesop is wounded by his failed attempt at peace

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Virginia Native who cites New york, The Clipse, Missy Elliott, and Pharrell as influences. With only one mix-tape under his belt he has quite the hype built. With stunning visuals and smooth vocals his music lands him on top.

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The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. The dramatic date of the dialogue has been much debated and though it must take place some time during the Peloponnesian War, “there would be jarring anachronisms if any of the candidate specific dates between 432 and 404 were assigned”. It is Plato’s best-known work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man by considering a series of different cities coming into existence “in speech”, culminating in a city (Kallipolis) ruled by philosopher-kings; and by examining the nature of existing regimes. The participants also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the roles of the philosopher and of poetry in society.

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The director and author gives advice to Barry O.

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Catacomb kids is all about being outcasted from society and generally being alienated from the rest of your peers. Aesop explore this idea because of his person experience feeling * different* than others around him, like he resides in a dark area that person have forgotten such as a Catacomb

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The rest of the planets are going about their lives dealing with trivial matters as Pluto falls from grace. They are all established planets and don’t have to worry about that status like Pluto must. Being the smallest of the bunch, cold and alone on the outskirts of the galaxy, Pluto loses its status, but the other planets doesn’t seem to care.

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Aesop mocks those who are owned by their faiths. Those that fervently wait for the end of the world solely to receive their reward for their loyalty to their religion. Aesop sees religion has something more important, its something to pick you up and not to pull you down. This is something that is lost to people today and there are no real signs of change in that regard…

In addition, he is saying that those with a nose full of cocaine (implying they led sinful lives) hope that their Judgement at Armageddon won’t be as painful (numb) as priests make it out to be.

The second line then separates these hedonistic sinners hoping god doesn’t exist from those described in the last two lines: atheists who genuinely believe that religious faith is a surrender of reason but also believe that its adherents shouldn’t be granted any slack just because they are religious (not a reason to surrender).

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