Bars: Aggressive and Patient (from "Ground Zero" by Juelz Santana)
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.9 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When you are in the infant stages of your vision, there is a certain aggressiveness that must be present. You have to be able to bully your way into the game, and exhibit a brash confidence that is uncommon. In this track "Ground Zero", Juelz Santana points this out. However, there is also a patience that comes into play, knowing that you are not going to settle. This is the challenge. Harlem rapper Juelz lays out his philosophy, and I dig deeper. #BARS
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. This is your host, Nees Showbo. Today's another episode of |
| 0:07.1 | bars. It's where I break down a lyric, a lyric that really hit home for me, something that |
| 0:12.4 | motivated me in some sort of way. And today I'm laying out, I'm giving you all a sample or a track |
| 0:18.3 | from a period of time of my life that really, really |
| 0:22.3 | shaped me. I'm talking about first couple years in college where I was on my grind. I'm |
| 0:28.9 | talking about running every day, biking to and from my job at the Pepsi factory, smelling |
| 0:36.2 | like I had a job at the Pepsi factory where I would bail cans. |
| 0:41.3 | And I would leave from there smelling like syrup, you know, having bees chase me and shit, |
| 0:47.5 | ride my bike to this stadium, to Reese Stadium, do my weightlifting, do my running, conditioning, and then at night, go back to |
| 0:57.1 | Risa Stadium, run some stadium stairs. |
| 0:59.6 | And it was at that time where I would have my walkman, not my walkman, I'm sorry, my CD |
| 1:03.8 | player. |
| 1:05.4 | So that was after Walkman's were the thing, you know cassette tapes, and then there were CD |
| 1:09.8 | players. |
| 1:11.6 | This was like right before I got my first iPod, my first brick iPod. |
| 1:16.6 | So I had a CD player, man, and I would listen to Lil Wayne. |
| 1:20.6 | I would listen to Jewel Santana. |
| 1:22.6 | I would listen to the diplomats album that came out when I was in high school and the music would just motivate me, |
| 1:31.3 | man. |
| 1:31.6 | And it was beyond the lyrics. |
| 1:35.2 | It was something about the vibe. |
| 1:37.4 | It was the energy. |
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