Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbo. Bars is back. Bars is back. This is an episode of bars. It's where I break down an excerpt from a song that I heard or a book that I read or an interview that I heard. Something that struck me in the same way that a bar hit you when you listen to your

favorite track and you're like, oh shit. When you hear something for the first time, you're like,

oh my, what did you just say? Run that back. Or when you see like, like, it's the same feeling like

when you're watching Sports Center or something and you just see somebody just dunk on somebody's neck

and you're like, yo, I got to rewind that.

I got to rewind that. So I have like my own sort of run that back moments. And one thing that I really enjoy about bars is that it's really my opportunity to share with you how my mind thinks and how I respond to different lyrics,

if that makes sense. So sometimes it's a lyric that doesn't necessarily seem like something

that's real deep, but for whatever reason, it hit me deep. And that whatever reason is bars. All right. So that's where I

break it down. So let me paint the picture for you. Joel Ortiz is one of my favorite artists. He's a

slept on artist. People don't really know about him as much as they should, but he's dope, man.

Lyracist, he was one of the four members of Slaughterhouse, as well as very successful solo artists also.

And I was, I first started listening to Joel Ortiz.

I think, like, I had to be a senior in college.

And Joel Ortiz, he's got that music, much like Juel Santana.

Yeah, really Juel Santana. I'm not saying he reminds me of Juel Santana. But for me,

I was listening to Juel Santana music in the same way that I was listening to Joel Ortiz.

It was like a certain type of inspiring.

It was like hitting me on a different level.

Like he would just say certain shit.

And it just translated very well for me in terms of my training, my journey, my struggle, etc.

So I was running the other day and I was like, man, I just

kind of came to me. I was like, I haven't heard Joila T's in a while. And I was wondering,

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