Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. It is your host, Nees Showbo. And today, this is books and bars,

but I'm going to be breaking down a bar, all right? That's a rap lyric from one of my favorite songs,

or maybe it's not a favorite song. I remember breaking down a French Montana song a few weeks

back, and he certainly is not my favorite rapper, although his album is pretty fresh.

But just rap lyrics that stand out to me.

And so this song is by Wiz Khalifa.

All right.

Now, let me give you a little bit of history on this song.

When I was trying to get back into the NFL, no, scratch that, when I was in the NFL,

and I remember I was preparing for my conditioning test.

All right. Now, our conditioning test was three, 300-yard shuttles. So 50-back, 50-back,

three times. I think you had to get each 300-yard shuttle in about one minute and 54 seconds

with, I think, two minutes rest. I can't remember, something like that.

But anyway, it was difficult, at least for me, all right? That was a difficult test.

And that was something I definitely needed to work hard to be able to master. So I definitely

didn't want to show up in camp and not be able to do that because that would just be no good.

So I was working my tail off, all right? Like doing that,

I remember I was doing it like twice a week. I was doing other workouts, but I would test

myself twice a week. And I remember whenever I would test myself, I had this playlist on my

iPod, all right? Now, I had this little, I remember this little case I had that I would put

on my arm and I would run. Of course, that was back when we didn't have a lot of wireless. So I had the little headphones plugged in.

And this was a track that got me through a lot of those workouts. And there were something about this track that inspired me so much. The beat was crazy. I loved what he was saying and there's a couple bars in particular that stand out.

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