Bars: "Take a stab at it" (feat. Nipsey Hussle)
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.9 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
There's a common misconception that you have to be "born" to do something, or blessed with incredible talent. History shows us the opposite—take Nipsey Hussle as an example... In this episode, I break down a powerful Nipsey Hussle lyric that proves that you can do just about anything you set your mind to. #Bars
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is your host, Nees Showbo. This is bars, and today's another bar from Nipsey. Every time I listen to Nipsey, I hear another bar, one that I wasn't even aware of before. And today is no different. This is from a track called Effortless. He has a joint album with this guy named Bino Rodo. I'm pretty sure that's how you say it. |
| 0:24.7 | It's an older album and it's one that maybe a lot of Nipsey fans might not even know that he has and it's incredible. |
| 0:31.3 | And he has a song called Effortless and he said something very, very powerful in there that I want to get to. |
| 0:36.2 | So B-Crack, go ahead and jump right in and I'm going to break down why this is so important. |
| 0:53.5 | This is what Nipsey said. |
| 0:54.5 | He said, use my advantages. |
| 0:56.9 | Use my advantages. |
| 0:58.8 | Nipsey Hustle is always someone who's been very shrewd, very calculated about positioning, about |
| 1:03.8 | marketing himself appropriately, about using his strengths and minimizing or mitigating |
| 1:10.1 | his weaknesses and rather even using his weaknesses as a strength. |
| 1:16.9 | Where he's from, his background. This is very important. So he said, use my advantages. And he says, |
| 1:25.2 | I ain't get picked for this shit. I was taking a stab at it. And what he's |
| 1:29.3 | talking about is the whole rap game. A lot of people see people who have gained success in an area and think that they were just picked for |
| 1:37.1 | success in this way. That God just ordained them a rapper or a singer or a, you know, a world-class basketball player, football player, dancer, |
| 1:46.5 | etc. And maybe for some of those people, that's true. You know, sometimes there is a LeBron |
| 1:51.3 | where it's just like you're just born to play basketball, you've groomed for it. Although even |
| 1:56.7 | LeBron went through his share of obstacles and ups and downs. But Nipsey, when it comes to |
| 2:01.9 | rap, first of all, no one would ever confuse him for the greatest rapper of all time, meaning |
| 2:07.1 | just from a pure rap standpoint. And if you listen to some of his old stuff, he's clearly |
| 2:12.2 | evolved. But what he has done is chosen an area to dominate. |
| 2:19.5 | And he took a stab at it is what he's saying. |
| 2:20.8 | He didn't get picked to be a rapper. |
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