Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is Books and Bars where I'm breaking down excerpts from my favorite books, bars from my favorite rap songs, giving you my take. Very fresh, very real, very raw. Only my take, though. I don't know what you think about it, but this is how I interpret it. And I know a lot of people out there who get really offended by hip hop because they don't

understand it.

So my goal is to help you maybe understand it, maybe look at it just a little differently.

And today's bar, today's bar is like, this is exactly one of those songs that if you

heard it, you might not hear nothing to it, but the real ones know.

Nipsey. Nipsey spit game, knowledge.

And I remember when I first heard this track, when this album, mailbox money came out a few years ago.

This was literally like my soundtrack when I had built I'm not you from the ground up.

This was my soundtrack.

So Nipsey helped inspire I'm not you, all right?

So this song is from mailbox money, the song called Killer, all right?

So look what he says.

I'm going to try to break it down very simple.

And then I'm going to break down each bar because it's a pack.

It's a lot of value packed in these few bars.

He says, look, I'm tiptoeing over traps.

Type roping at a height.

You fall, you know, and it's a rap.

But I'm gonna keep this balance, cause it ain't no turning back.

Ain't no looking down, my n'n' ain't concerned with that.

We mo'concern with getting cash, more concern with running laps,

running rap, getting rich, then run it back.

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