Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbo. Today's another episode of bars where I break down an excerpt from a book that I'm reading or a song that I'm listening to and on a rare occasion, a video that I've watched. Today is a song and it's from one of the greatest rappers of all time, arguably the Michael Jordan of rap. We're talking about

Jay-Z. All right. So this is from his album, Blueprint 2, and it's from one of my favorite

Jay-Z songs. It's called I Did It My Way. I did it my way. Check it out. Be Cried. Go ahead and

play this track real quick, and I want to break down this lyric that stood out to me and is literally like a, I can't find a better example of what it means to be a true line in the jungle. And you'll know what I'm talking about. Be Crock, go ahead and play it.

Had to explain to her. You think these folks want me in the penthouse as a reminder that I make top paper. Black entrepreneur, nobody did us no favors.

Nobody gave us shit.

We made us.

The Rat Pack.

I'm Sinatra.

Dane Sam Davis.

Bigs the smart one on a low like D. Martin.

We came in this game, not begging niggas part in.

Demanding y'all respect.

Hand over a check.

And why y'all at it, hand over the jet. So listen, no matter what game you're in, no matter if it's business, no matter what sports you're in, no matter if it's soccer, basketball, wrestling, cricket, it really doesn't matter.

A lot of people go and try to find the least competitive sport to play so that they can get an in.

People try to find the least competitive, you know, business to be in.

There is no not competitive business.

Everything is competitive.

There's always someone, and if it's not competitive, it's going to be competitive, real soon.

So you shouldn't be looking to run from competition.

And I say that because there's a certain mindset that it takes in order to really take over the game.

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