On this episode of the Playbook I have Mike Studd former college baseball star turned rapper and we're going to talk about parting, productivity, and not getting consumed by the ego and is a special special edition you get the first Dave Meltser rap ever created on the playbook. Join me for all of that and more on

the playbook. This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook where each week I bring you some of the greatest

athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional

playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the board

room. I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David Melzer.

It was Dave Melter with entrepreneurs of the playbook and I am so excited.

I got the stud here. Mike Stud, the rapper. I told him when he came in here, I go,

man, you have my dream job. I wanted to be the first great white rapper.

And I did.

And I studied everybody, Sugar Hill Gang on vinyl.

I still have it, first album I ever,

I still know almost every word

kids make me rap all the time one thing about rapping like comedians to me is that

literally you have to be hyper intelligent yeah you know M&M one of my favorite

rappers and I love his lyrics, but there is like the

intonation, the timing, and then the content itself. You played baseball and college at Duke.

Yes, sir.

Obviously, you were probably a fairly good student,

if not a good student.

I was.

I would say I was definitely.

I like to, I kind of, it translates, I competed competed I felt like it was part of the competition I knew I needed it I knew it was part of my path and I knew it was an avenue to get to where I wanted to get I, they don't necessarily coincide being a base, like being a great baseball player and being an at and an at, but I saw it as a student athlete. I was kind of raised on that, but I realized that it enabled.

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