Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbo, another episode of Books and Bars. Man, I love breaking down books and bars. I got to be honest with you. I don't know which one I like more, but if I had to choose, it had to be the bars. For some reason, I just love sharing with you all how I interpret the bars.

You know what I'm saying?

It's not like I don't, like I love music more than books necessarily, or it's just that

there are certain tracks that when I hear, I wonder if somebody else heard it in that same

way. And I'm sure there are some, there are people who have seen it in that same way.

And I'm sure there are people who have seen it in that same way.

And if you're one of them, shit, we vibe.

But I guarantee you, not everybody's seeing it in the way that I'm seeing it.

And I just want to share that with you.

Because sometimes the bar would be so mundane.

It would seem like it's almost like hitting,

but it would just slap me.

It will just slap me and it'll hit me hard.

And that's what happened today when I, or not today.

I heard this track, obviously, I've heard this track a lot.

I used to play this album a ton in high school.

This is from Jay-Z, Volume 3, Life and Times of S. Dot Carter. Some would say this is definitely not one of his, let's just say this is

in the bottom half of his. He has a pretty big body of work, you know what I'm saying? So you talk about the

blueprints, the black album, you know what I'm saying? The Magna Carter joint or the, uh, the,

uh, the Kanye, watch the throne with Kanye West. Even his latest one, the 4-4, 4. These are albums

that are at the top half of his body of work, and

then he's got the ones that are at the bottom half. Now, because Jay-Z's so prolific,

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