Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbo. Today's another episode of bars, and I'm breaking down a lyric from a classic, classic song by, of course, a classic artist. It goes by the name of Jay-Z, and this is Public Service announcement from the Black album. I still remember when this came out when I was in college.

I actually got the black album phone. It was like this Nokia, a little phone that came with

the JZ album already downloaded on it. That was back when you got MP3s preloaded onto phones.

When an MP3 phone was next level, this was before iPhone. I'm over here sounding old. But this is from

Jay-Z to Black album, Public and Service announcement. I want to break down a lyric that he says

in this song and why it's so, so relevant to what's happening right now with you and us

here in the world as human beings alive during this time. All right. B crock, go ahead and drop that.

Thing ain't lie.

I'm like, check your barrel with bling on.

I'm complex.

I never claim to have wings on.

Nigel, I get my by any means on.

Whenever there's a drought, get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm. Listen, I think it's fair to say globally, we're dealing with the drought.

And by drought, I don't just, I don't mean economically or whatever else.

It's a, it's a metaphor.

We're going through a tough time.

Now, what Jay-Z talked about, people like Jay-Z, what they do during a drought is different

from what the average person does.

Most people, when there's a drought, during a coronavirus, when they're hurt, when their

money's low, when, you know, the economy tanks, whatever else, they curl up into a ball

and they start crying and shit. Now, they might not

actually literally start doing that, but they soak. They spend months and months talking about

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