
Shakespeare Shakeup by James Johnston
They say a Rose is sweet by any other name
But all of my imitators have no game
I’m just Richard II Electric Boogaloo
So don’t get surprised when I banish you
Everyone knows me just like I’m Yorick
And my lyrics like King Lear are sick
When I rap I do really bad live
Like Titus Andronicus is hard to high five
While Romeo may have loved Juliet
I was the first to get in that
and it was true that she was only fourteen
Like Ophelia’s Hamlet I’m a reckless Libertine
Hamlet may have been a jerk to Ophelia
but it was my jerk that she feelya
Richard 3 this is the winter of your discontent
Because I’m with Anne Neville in our tent
What caused all of Helena’s Midsummer Night’s dreaming?
Probably all of our Midsummer Night’s Cre-… hanging out
and why was the merchant of venice called Shylock?
It’s because he had a shy co-… personalityand Caeser the soothsayer’s claims were valid
now you’ll only be remebered as a salid
and it may be et tu soon brutus
but everyone knows that you’re a doofus
Please feel free to applaud me and rave
now Shakespeare’s rolling in his grave
(via heartofsplinters)