BARS: The burden of success (A bar from Benny The Butcher)
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.9 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
One of the hallmarks of greatness is making what you do seem easy and effortless. The problem with that comes when others think that they can do what you do, without having to build the sregth to do it.
In this epsiode, I break down a bar from a Benny The Butcher freestyle, where he highlights this reality.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbo. Today is the episode of bars. |
| 0:06.5 | All right. We got a whole series of bars for you. But of course, just like always, there was something within the collection of bars that just really hit heavy for me right at the time that I heard it. |
| 0:19.5 | So shout out to my boy Isaya for texting me this video link to this Benny the Butcher |
| 0:26.6 | bar, a rapper who he and I both share a liking for a dude who just got bars, man. |
| 0:34.1 | So I appreciate that, Isaya, for sending me the video. I watched the video, was |
| 0:39.1 | blown away, much like I am with verses from the butcher, all right? So I want to play this whole |
| 0:49.5 | entire freestyle for you. It's only about two minutes long, but let's break down. Something very important |
| 0:55.3 | that he said within it. And as you listen, imagine what you think it might be. All right? Take a |
| 1:02.3 | listen. Oh, it's time to go crazy, though. Mr. Pyrex man, gram stick to the spoon when I whip |
| 1:09.5 | dummy. I should have put a man on the moon like Kid Cuddy. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm content just as long as I'm rich you can spend money. |
| 1:15.4 | Off this methadoled and shit that they give junkies. |
| 1:18.3 | I'm on the phone with management. |
| 1:19.8 | Discussing cannabis deals, channeling Bill Gates. |
| 1:22.2 | Because y'nigas handle these meals. |
| 1:23.7 | I take it all off the bank having somewhere buried in fields. Before I'm rob, I ain't a cowling in charge of paying my bills. |
| 1:29.3 | Face a death jam, and we plan on changing the score. |
| 1:31.3 | This time around the street shit going to get some label support. |
| 1:34.3 | Thankful for legends who paid the way but ain't get awards, because every hustler at the table |
| 1:38.3 | and took some game from New York. |
| 1:40.3 | I came for the Forbes, came for the blood, came for the gore. |
| 1:42.3 | They asked me, am I the butcher? I don't got explaining no more. |
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