Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. This is your host, Nees Showbo. Today is another episode of

books and bars where I break down excerpts from my favorite books, books that I'm reading.

I do my best to read a lot. I guess a lot is all relative, but every day. Every day should be

a standard for you in terms of reading and at least 20, 30 minutes tops upwards of an hour

if you have time. Just imagine if you spend an hour acquiring new information today. Now, again,

that might seem like a lot, but is that a lot when it comes to exercising your body? Not necessarily.

I'm sure for a lot of you who are professional athletes, you spend a lot more time than that.

So how much more time should you spend on your mind?

So read every day.

And then of course music.

I know a lot of you guys listen to music.

I love hip-hop music.

And I get a ton of value from the lyrics that a lot of my favorite artists break down.

And today I'm breaking down another clip from the late great Nip Hustle.

Passed away a few weeks ago. Tragic, tragic, tragic ending to an incredible career and life

from Nipsey Hustle, the rapper, entrepreneur, activist. But guess what? The marathon

continues and his legacy lives on. And I'm going to do my best to let it live through this

podcast. All right. So what I want to do is break down a really simple clip or a simple bar

from one of his songs on the Marathon mixtape, the initial marathon mixtape.

Can't remember when this came out. Matter of fact, let me check real quick.

2010, 2010, the Marathon mixtape came out, and there's a song called Top Down on that

mixtape, and he said something very powerful. So B Crock, go ahead and drop it.

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