Vertep

Vertep (Cyrillic: Вертеп, Батлейка) is a portable puppet theatre and drama predominantly in Ukraine, which presents the nativity scene, other mystery plays, and later secular plots as well. The original meaning of the word is "secret place", "cave", "den", referring to the cave where Christ was born, i.e., the Bethlehem Cave "Вифлеемский вертеп" in the liturgy of the Russian Orthodox Church. To Russia vertep arrived in the 17th century after acquisition of the Cossack Hetmanate from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1654), where it was known as szopka.

In Belarusian culture it was also referred to as Batleika (батлейка), from "Bethlehem".

Vertepi were also known in both Croatian and Serbian folk culture, notably in the districts of Syrmia and Kolubara.

A typical vertep was a wooden box, one or two storeyed. The floors had slots through which the puppeteers controlled wooden puppets. The upper floor of the two-storeyed box was used for the nativity scene, while the lower was for interludes and other mystery plays (most often featuring the Herod and Rachel plots) and secular plays, often of comedy character.

Better Thangz (ft. Babs Bunny (da Band))

[Hook] x 2
Kush rolled, glass full, I deserve the better thangs
Kush rolled, glass full, I deserve the better thangs
I deserve the better, I deserve the better thangs
I deserve the better, I deserve the better thangs
I deserve the better, I deserve the better thangs
I got the kush rolled, blast right
Still thinking bout the bitch I had last night
I broke up with my girl, we had a bad fight
She don't understand a nigga with a bad life
Holding on, a nigga straight,
Except I don't give a fuck, let them niggas hate
I don't really care what them niggas say
Most them just mad cause a nigga paid
The girls say I got it going on,
I let her crack the blunt while I crack patron
Now we takin shots, the whole night
You know a couple shots, we get them hoes right
Had a few friends, they fake though
I don't need a rollerblade, he can skate hoe
Matter fact, I'll call you back, I'm on a date hoe
Kush rolled, glass full, count cake though
[Hook] x 2
Kush rolled, glass full, I deserve the better thangs
Kush rolled, glass full, I deserve the better thangs
I deserve the better, I deserve the better thangs
I deserve the better, I deserve the better thangs
I deserve the better, I deserve the better thangs
Sour diesel in the back wood
It's like a toy to a kid make em act good
Tell em I'm a smoker, wine in that cup when I'm sippin
That hard liquor have a bitch trippin
Let's talk about the lickin when the smoke's done
I've been high, cause before you picked me at the crib I done smoked one
Kush rolled, glass full, I deserve the better thangs
A pair in sours equal to a wedding ring
You put that in my hand then we married
He laughed, then kissed on my lips for he grabbed me
I ride, I don't drive, you the taxi
If I rolled in this 4 when you match me
That moscato is only for the models
And slim chicks like me drink it by the bottle
If you a dude giving head then you swallow
That fiji water for that goggle, he better have that
[Hook] x 2
Kush rolled, glass full, I deserve the better thangs
Kush rolled, glass full, I deserve the better thangs
I deserve the better, I deserve the better thangs
I deserve the better, I deserve the better thangs

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