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Heart vs Mind
The Game’s new album Drillmatic- Heart vs Mind, he takes us down a road we all know well, the world of CHOICES.
Loyalty, lawyer fees
Gas prices, oil fees
Passive aggressive pastors cheating you out your royalties
Whippin' the Fivio foreign
All offers show money
More money, more problems is better than no money
Your money is your money, it's not mine
So why would I rob you of your manhood and your grind?
Heart versus mind
Choices where everywhere during elections and pandemic; unfortunately the outcome of those choices led to 6.45 million global deaths ; 1.4 million in us according to The New York Times. The vaccine being beacon of light needed to move forward was short lived.Instead of freedom from death; society bent the corner right back into trouble. Over 300 Mass shootings reported by the Washington Post, fraudulently, unethical behavior-January 6th Insurrection, firing employees for creating a unions Starbucks and Amazon, deception-misinformation, and financial struggles-inflation. The cherry on top- global warming ( did anyone ever apologize to Al Gore). Continues to trend towards destruction impacting and displacing vast amount of people. It was a choice to follow the loudest voice and not the smartest voice in the room.
“The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart."--William Hazlitt
The knowledge society receives through multiple outlets feeds the head, gravitating towards the heart, making whatever choice one believes is the best for their personal life. Unfortunately, sometimes forgetting the ripple effect. Would you choose to rob knowing in your heart it’s wrong, knowing it will harm?
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The philosophical moment brings attention to watching someone else, becoming envious of what they have, rather than looking at what you have and making that grow, and no it probably won’t be easy.
You got two niggas sittin' down to eat, right?
Niggas sittin' down at the table to eat
And they got the same food, and they got the same utensils
One nigga let his food go cold watching another nigga eat
And that's how all this shit be starting, envy
Another nigga lookin' at what another nigga
Wanting what another nigga got when he got utensils
And a share of his own, you dig what I'm sayin'?
All this started, when a nigga get in power and a nigga be shittin' on a nigga
That where all this shit be stemming from
Would you choose to treat others disrespectfully if you knew in your heart whoever didn’t deserve it? These are all thoughts the choice you so choose comes from the heart. Society can choose to become separated with thoughts that align with biases, ego, and lack of love or choose to be a collaborative compassionate, understanding, state of peace. The wisdom (heart) will provide the long-term consequences I guess that’s why the Egyptians weighed the heart against a feather. When choices are only made from knowledge they can become corrupted due to wants, ego, and other materialistic means. Both must come together to make the best choice for the future.
Andre 3000 talked about choices in a new campaign for Supreme Clothing. It’s the choice of choosing to go on a path that’s right for you. The Heart vs Mind appears in so many other hip-hop artists’ music.
Clifford Harris Jr. aka T.I in T.I vs T.I.P. It’s a constant battle with self figuring out what direction to take in solving a situation; truly being a conversation with self. Self-reflection is a micro-level view that can also be applied to society as a whole, analysis, history, and societal empathy. In an accumulation of heart and Mind, there’s no in-between, if there is an in-between it still comes down to doing the right thing for the best long-term consequences.
