Books + Bars: Jay-Z, “Bam”
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.8 • 755 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
From one of the strongest forces in the hip-hop game, today’s bar features Jay-Z’s newest album, “4:44”. On his track “Bam” featuring Damian Marley, Jay drops game to remind us that we must tune in to our alter-ego’s to let the world know who they’re messin’ with. Don’t be too nice to those who don’t benefit you. Set the price; then live your life. That’s BARS.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is books and bars. I started this because I love |
| 0:05.3 | hip hop. I love to read. I love books and I know you love books as well. I'm not sure how much |
| 0:10.6 | you love hip hop, but it's my goal to get you to like hip hop because a lot of hip hop, even the |
| 0:17.0 | hip hop that you might not think does. Hip hop has a lot of wisdom, a lot of knowledge |
| 0:21.5 | in it, a lot of philosophy in it. |
| 0:24.4 | And I grew up on hip hop, loved it. |
| 0:26.6 | Didn't have a TV growing up, but loved music. |
| 0:28.5 | I would buy CDs. |
| 0:29.9 | I would steal CDs. |
| 0:30.9 | I remember I got caught stealing a CD when I was in eighth grade. |
| 0:33.3 | That was the last time I stole CD. |
| 0:36.0 | And it was the Buster Rhyme CD. |
| 0:37.7 | I love music. |
| 0:38.9 | I love music. |
| 0:39.9 | Spent all my money on music and it got me through a lot of tough times, all right? |
| 0:44.6 | So what I'm breaking down today is a few excerpts from one of my favorite songs on the |
| 0:52.2 | new JZ album called 444 Dope album, I suggest you check |
| 0:57.7 | it out if you like Jay-Z, even if you don't, because I think Jay-Z set a new standard |
| 1:02.6 | with this album and that what he's talking about is some really heavy stuff. |
| 1:08.2 | He's challenging a lot of what we've used to think of hip hop and what society |
| 1:13.0 | thinks of hip hop, and he's dropping some real knowledge all over this album. But on this song, |
| 1:18.6 | BAM, featuring one of the sons of Bob Marley, Damien Marley, he had a couple bars that he said that just really, really |
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