Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. This is your host, Niyo. Welcome and welcome to the

hostile takeover. The books and bars takeover for the next seven days you are going to be getting

a books and bars episode and I am going to be diving in immersion style. And let me explain to you

what I mean. You guys know why I started books and bars.

I read a ton of books and I also listen to a ton of music. Probably listen to more music than I should,

quite frankly. Not that music is a bad thing, but it's kind of like anything, too much of it.

So anyway, that's one of my vices, music. And not just any music, but in particular, hip-hop music. I listen to a lot of hip-hop.

It's something that helps me, something that's inspired me. There are rappers who literally

have been responsible for helping me reach really, really big goals, getting me through

really, really tough times, and I love it. So what I decided to do is that, you know, on Wednesday,

I usually just drop one episode, give you a little quick, little excerpt from a song,

a quick little snippet from a book. And then I was realizing I'm like, listen, man,

there's some music, some books that need me to go like deep and dive in because there's a lot there, right?

And so what I decided to do is keep the books and bars really, really short, really, really

to the point, easily digestible, but I wanted to give you a lot more of them.

And I wanted to do it in a concentrated fashion, all right?

So there are certain artists that I listen to. There's certain

albums that come out, certain books that come out that really deserve me to go all in. And

this is one of those situations, all right? This is the Nipsey Hustle album. Victory Lap. It just came

out a couple weeks ago. I've been listening to it on repeat, heavy rotation.

And it's one of those albums, you guys, that is very important for hip hop. And it's going to be

very important for you, even if you don't like hip hop. So even if you're someone who hip hop is not

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