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Date of issue: 18.07.2020
Age restrictions: 18+
Song language: English
Plato vs Aristotle |
Graphic rap battle debates of philosophy |
Plato versus Aristotle |
Fight |
Ópa, hárika polý |
Greetings, I’m the GOAT |
The patéras of filosofía |
With the bedsheets for clothes |
I make philosophy complicated from the very onset |
Trying to find the Universals, it’s the problem of concepts |
We want virtue, but where we find it? |
How could two be one and one, but also be a four divided? |
I’ve never seen a beautiful but somehow I know it |
So I must have learned it before I was born which means my soul |
Is traveling from life to life, which means the body is inferior |
And true philosophers discover things in their interior |
I teach it to the little men that live a life pathetic |
For every word you know someone had to be prophetic |
A philosopher, a man who goes to heaven slash Hades |
Closed off to people that indulge in good food and ladies |
It’s virtuous to stay away from pleasures of the earth |
Forget the holy ghost, I’m the father of Jesus |
Christianity’s the product of my philosophic base |
Western historia wouldn’t stay if I didn’t create |
The perfect system of questions, what is true? |
How do I know? |
What should I do? |
Who should rule? |
What’s art? |
You’re welcome |
Yo teacher |
I don’t mean to disrespect you |
But you’re wrong so much that to ask you a question is to wreck you |
The fuck is this dimension you get information from? |
There’s one Reality I’ve been to, this one |
Let me help you to identify the way to form a Concept |
The shit ain’t from up in Heaven, it’s intrinsic in the object |
My mom said do the shit that good dudes do |
Pretty simple, works for me Papa Plato, how 'bout you? |
Why can’t I enjoy the life of moderation with my homies? |
If you know a better life than Eudaimonia then show me |
And why you act like pleasures of the flesh is so below you? |
You been known to fondle little boys more than Jared Fogle |
Oh, we goin' there, teach (what's up) |
Matter of fact, let’s fast forward to the coming culmination of your thought |
The glorious Empire of Rome will stumble over and will fall |
Because of all the mysticism in your dialogues you taught 'em |
Say hello to a millennium of following the orders of a Pope |
You could take a bath in Heaven, don’t be asking him for soap |
Or for more than couple hundred calories to eat a day |
Ironic Plato’s influence got 'em to kill you if you’re gay |
I must have had a bit too much wine with my gyro |
Are you blaming me for all the problems of medieval Europe? |
Roma was devoured by barbarians and Germans |
How you pin the fall of Rome on one Greek dead person? |
You’re jealous, I’m the father of all philosophers |
And the only work of yours is written my Nicomachus |
Your own books burned, thrown away, they didn’t need it |
That doesn’t mean you blame authoritarianism on me then |
You ever see me force someone to do anything? |
I just thought you could use a bit of help from a philosopher king |
Because you’re stupid, it’s not your fault, we all live in a cave |
Only a few could see the light and show the rest of you the way |
Up to the real world of forms where everything is perfect |
All you see is shadows on the wall without us to interpret |
Admit it, most people can’t think in big ideas |
What, should we let them be in charge? |
Yeah, it’s called democracy |
Man, we got this |
We got five senses, not fix |
So where you get this abstract outside the box shit? |
The world’s here in front of us, your forms sound obnoxious |
It is what it is, bruh, also known as Logic |
You gave us the Dark Ages, I gave you science |
Aquinas had to hide how much he liked me or he’d die |
They woulda burned him if they knew the extent of my impact |
I brought Renaissance, Enlightenment, United States, facts |
You brought the reoccurring trend of Faith in the Supernatural |
Epic Beef is what you find between yourself and Aristotle |
It’s just the two of us, Plato, we’re the Terminators battling |
Across the span of time and we ain’t never gonna squash it nigga, let’s go |
End battle |
Pretty good, pretty good… for my student |
Nah man, your momma’s toga’s pretty good |
That shit was pure fire |
Eh not as pure as my Concepts, you’ll get it one day |
Man, fuck your Concepts |
Ay, I brought filosofía into the world, I could take it away |
Man, first you were like Jared, now you sound like Bill Cosby |
I don’t know who is Bill Cosby |
He’s this black guy in jail for… |
Oh, a black man in jail, you’re so specific |
Man, I’m tryna be pacific but you keep… |