Welcome back to the sports motivation podcast. It is your host, Niyu Shobo. Breaking down, excerpts from my favorite books.

I'm an avid reader, voracious reader. I love to read. And I'm also a fan of hip hop, and I love listening to hip hop music.

Hip hop has played a big part in my life, meaning I've always related to the lyrics and not the

parts of the lyrics that a lot of people think and see from the outside.

I never dealt drugs.

You know, I didn't grow up in a rough environment.

I grew up with both my parents.

I grew up pretty safe, right?

But about the lyrics, the parts about the lyrics that I really relate to is the hunger and the drive and the desire to succeed, right? And I've always loved that, man, and I've always found a lot of wisdom in hip-hop bars. So the song I want to break down today is by Juel Santana, one of my favorite artists. He actually, he's not doing as much

nowadays, but when I was in college, I can still remember when Juel Santana's album, for me

to you came out. I remember buying it my freshman year in college, playing it in my CD player,

bumping it so loud. In Finley Hall at Oregon State University, almost kicked

out of the dorms because of how loud I played my music.

But this song, like I started listening.

It came out later, right?

This song was not on for me, the album for Me to You.

But this song came out and I remember at this stage of my life how cool it was for me to hear this song because I was really grinding.

I was trying to get back into the NFL, and it was when I had already got released.

And it was something about the hunger that he, and I'm going to break down the lyrics, but this song really drove me, and I'm going to tell you why.

So be crap, go ahead and play. Okay. the lyrics but this song really drove me and I'm gonna tell you why all right so good beat

cry out and play all right so joel santana he said when he said when he said way to bring me another

week and that's big.

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