Yo, welcome back to books and bars, where I'm going to be talking books, be talking bars.

If you don't know what a bar is, it's basically a lyric.

And if you don't know by now, I love hip hop music.

I have been a fan since I was about, shoot, as long as I can remember, really, back when I was buying tapes, singles at Sam Goody, back when you used to be able to buy CDs and get the free poster with them at Sam Goody, hanging up the inside of rap covers around my room.

So this is the, I'm going to be breaking down a bar today, all right?

This is in memory of Prodigy from Mobb Deep.

Prodigy is a member, like I said, a mob deep, a rap group, classic rap group, and he just died recently. The rest of peace, the prodigy. This song is a song that I used to play all

the time that my big brother, Delay, put me up on.

He showed me this song when I was younger, and he used to always play it on, and

see these player in his room, and it's called Keep It Thorele.

So here's the reality, like rap music, right?

Like, I'm 32 years old.

My wife would be like, why do you still like this hip-hop music?

Why do you still like this hip hop music? Why do you still like this? And she might hear

something that they say in there that might rub to the wrong way or, you know, misogynistic or

disrespectful or downright raunchy. What she doesn't realize is I don't listen to it for that

reason. There's something about the edginess, the rawness, the confidence, the killer instinct

that shines through in rap music and hip-hop music.

And there are certain things that a rapper will say that I literally just light me up,

like where I just get juiced.

When I was at Oregon State, I had my CD player headphones on running up the stadium stair,

up the stadium stairs, in Rieser Stadium, at Oregon State, listening to Dipset, Cameron,

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