Today is another episode of books and bars. It's where I break down excerpts from books that I read

and bars from rap music that I listen to. I don't listen to a lot of other music, to be honest.

But starting today, there's going to be another genre or category, if you will, that I'm

going to be pulling from as it relates to bars.

And that is speeches and clips from those people that I admire, that I respect, that I would

hope you admire and respect as well. But if you don't, you'd be introduced. But I'm someone who

likes, I really enjoy listening to people speak. I love watching interviews. I love

listening to speeches, especially of people that are no longer around. I feel like it brings me to

another time and I enjoy it. So anyway, a lot of times when I listen to these speeches, like let's

say, for example, the Martin Luther King or Malcolm X or Napoleon Hill or interviews for my favorite athletes,

etc.

I'll hear them drop a bar and I'll react in the same way that I do when I hear a rap lyric,

if you will.

And so I want to start breaking down some of those bars with you and we're starting that

today and I'm super excited.

All right.

So my big brother, Della, the same one who put me up on game, up on game, if you will.

You guys hear me talk about him all the time.

He's my big brother.

And he actually is the one who initially put me on to Malcolm X speeches.

This was before, I want to say even before YouTube, he gave me this CD that had a bunch of Malcolm

Max speeches. And so if you don't know much about Malcolm X. He died in the, I think it's the mid-60s,

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