Welcome to the Sports Motivation Podcast. This is another episode of bars where I break down excerpts from my favorite books, clips from interviews, and of course lyrics from my favorite rap songs or an occasional R&B, depending on how I'm feeling. I'm a hip-hop dude, and I don't apologize for that. I used to, I can't remember who it was. I had a friend

who used to make me feel weird that I didn't like all types of music. I don't, I don't, I, sometimes I listen to,

what's the dude's name, Tony Bennett, you know, when I want to go to sleep. I got this new Alexa thing,

and I like Tony Bennett in classical music a little bit. But other than that, it's straight bars, man. So I want to break down the track. I literally listen to this every morning. And when I

forget to my son, D. Ron, he's 12 or he's 11 years old. He always reminds me. He's like,

Dad, we ain't played no bad energy yet. No bad energy. Please, no bad energy by one of my favorite rappers, Nas, one of the

greatest of all time in my opinion. And he has tons of bars. But this song, it came out

not too long ago. And I literally listened to it like every day. And partly because the beat is so clean.

And then of course the message is all about not having bad energy, not tolerating bad energy around you.

But he says something right when the track starts that I just had to break down for you.

Becrock, let's drop it.

I'm going to get into one in a second.

Let's go.

Yeah. down for you. B. Croc. Let's drop it. I'm going to get into one in a second. Let's go. I'm oblivious to you skeptics. What you hear, you ain't never here till I repped it.

Aerodesic and heroes essence, please clear the exits. I chase demons outdoors, force them to hear the message, air them out.

I heard some people discussing my whereabouts.

Yeah, it's been a few sightings of me a fair amount.

Never seen much, but yet I'm never in the house.

Move a style while exciting when I do step out.

Y'all been rhyming for years and Juggle made a hit,

Uchi Wali idea, sold a million records.

Had him embarrassed, signed to Columbia,

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