Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. This is your host, Niyushobo. This is Books and Bars. It's where I break down excerpts from my favorite books. I break down lyrics from my favorite rap songs. Another word for lyrics is bars. And today, I'm going to be breaking down an entire song. Now, it won't be everything from this song, but I just want you to hear this entire

song because when I first heard it, I was going crazy.

And I got to imagine if you're a hip-hop fan, you're going to go crazy as well.

And if you don't like hip-hop, I at least want you to give you a sample of the type of

shit I go crazy about, all right? So this is a lyric or a song

from J-Col. It's called Album of the Year. It's a quote-unquote freestyle, meaning he wrapped

over a different beat, sort of mixtape style. Freestyle typically means that you're going

off the top of the head, meaning you're coming up with lyrics as you go, although when people use that now, it does not mean that. So I'm pretty sure

he wrote this, but either way, it's flames, and there's a lyric at the end that I want to break

down, but there's a lot of things throughout. So what I want to do is pretty much play the song.

But really quick, let me tell you a little bit about J. Cole in case you don't know.

He is a rapper who was found or discovered by Jay-Z.

Or I should say he made himself discovered by Jay-Z.

He's educated.

He went to college.

Really smart dude.

Came from North Carolina.

And is a very, what you call a conscious rapper. He's smart, he's

intellectual, and he has progressed and evolved a ton. So if you look, if you see the way he

looks now, as opposed to the way he looked when he first came out, he's very much evolved. And I

really love how he's evolved. And he's actually what you would call one of the greatest in the game right now. So he's very much evolved and I really love how he's evolved and he's actually what you would

call one of the greatest in the game right now. So he's kind of like the LeBron James of rap right now.

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