Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbAZeaI8iH8 Starts at: 03:43:33 (jump to 03:43:33)
D’Angelo - Without You Song and NASCAR Spoken Word
[03:43:33] Was not expecting that, but that was awesome. [03:43:35] Yeah, thank you, Mike. [03:43:36] Off the dome with the jokes, I like it. [03:43:38] Yeah. [03:43:39] All right, now we have one last, [03:43:43] before we start our meditation, [03:43:44] which you’re probably gonna put me in a bedtime mode, [03:43:48] I’m just saying right now. [03:43:49] So we got D’Angelo, and D’Angelo coming to the stage. [03:43:57] Come on up. [03:44:05] First and foremost. [03:44:07] Shout out to this man right here. [03:44:17] This man has put up with my shit [03:44:19] for three years, dude. [03:44:20] Let me tell you, it was a lot of it. [03:44:25] So much so that even the hogs can play with it. [03:44:30] My man knows what’s up. [03:44:31] By the way, y’all are cool and shit. [03:44:34] Like, can we give him another round of applause? [03:44:41] But, I’m gonna get straight to the point. [03:44:44] I’m a humongous NASCAR fan, right? [03:44:47] So y’all are gonna answer my mind. [03:44:49] And I want y’all to take whatever you take out of my mind. [03:44:54] I’m also gonna say a song, and it’s called, [03:44:58] not that, see I’m getting a little sorry. [03:45:01] I appreciate y’all being here. [03:45:04] It’s called Without You by Breakavenger. [03:45:07] All right. [03:45:08] You know what’s up? [03:45:09] I know what’s up. [03:45:10] I know what’s up. [03:45:11] I know what’s up. [03:45:12] I know what’s up. [03:45:13] I know what’s up. [03:45:14] I know what’s up. [03:45:15] I know what’s up. [03:45:16] I know what’s up. [03:45:17] I know what’s up. [03:45:18] I know what’s up. [03:45:19] I know what’s up. [03:45:20] I know what’s up. [03:45:21] I know what’s up. [03:45:23] Hey man! [03:45:24] Here, Benjamin. [03:45:25] Benjamin Benjamin, man. [03:45:26] Benjamin Benjamin, underrated, hella underrated. [03:45:27] Grover. [03:45:28] Right. [03:45:29] Honestly. [03:45:30] A diary of Jane. [03:45:31] Oh come on. [03:45:32] Yes. [03:45:33] You kidding me? [03:45:35] My cell phone right now. [03:45:37] You could be though? [03:45:38] No, rip talk. [03:45:39] But, you know how they say, gentlemen, the driver starts the engines? [03:45:40] You gonna change that up a little bit. [03:45:45] Humans of all kind. [03:45:46] I hear something. [03:45:47] Come on, man. [03:45:48] Humans of all kind, stimulate your brain! [03:46:03] I searched for the answers I knew all along. [03:46:07] I lost myself and no one else. [03:46:11] Never the wiser of what I have become. [03:46:15] Alone I stand. [03:46:19] A lonely man. [03:46:21] And all I have is this one last chance and I will turn my back on you. [03:46:26] Take my hand! [03:46:29] Drag me down. [03:46:31] Cause if you fall, then I will too. [03:46:35] The dark can’t save what’s left of you. [03:46:40] Say something new, I got nothing left. [03:46:43] But I can’t face the dark without you. [03:46:45] There’s nothing left to who or what it all begins. [03:46:50] I can’t face the dark without you. [03:46:53] Swallow me under and pull me apart. [03:46:56] I lost myself and no one else. [03:46:59] Pain so familiar and close to the end. [03:47:05] Alone I breathe. [03:47:07] A broken man. [03:47:09] Come back down! [03:47:12] Save yourself! [03:47:15] But I won’t turn my back on you. [03:47:17] But I can’t bear to see the truth. [03:47:23] Say something new. [03:47:25] Cause I got nothing left. [03:47:28] I can’t face the dark without you. [03:47:33] But there’s nothing left to who or what it all begins. [03:47:38] I can’t face the dark without you. [03:47:41] I wanted to forget. [03:47:43] I’m trying to forget. [03:47:46] Don’t leave me here again. [03:47:50] I’m talking to the younger me. [03:47:54] The 13 year old D’Angelo that got locked in juvie. [03:47:58] Feeling so alone. [03:48:01] Like no one gave a shit. [03:48:04] Rise up big man. [03:48:09] That’s what I’d say to myself. [03:48:11] Don’t leave me here again man. [03:48:16] Cause I’m with you forever. [03:48:18] The end. [03:48:20] Say something new. [03:48:22] I got nothing left. [03:48:25] I can’t face the dark without you. [03:48:30] There’s nothing left to who. [03:48:32] The fun it never ends. [03:48:35] I can’t face the dark without you. [03:48:40] Holding the hands that hold me back. [03:48:45] I forgive you. [03:48:47] Forget you. [03:48:48] The end. [03:48:50] Holding the hands that hold me back. [03:48:55] I forgive you. [03:48:57] Forget you. [03:48:59] The end. [03:49:06] Richmond International Raceway. [03:49:08] 2011. [03:49:10] I was fortunate enough that this was my first NASCAR race. [03:49:13] I was nine years old. [03:49:15] Seeing Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kurt Busch, Jimmy Johnson, Jeff Gordon, all these wonderful drivers race each other, crash each other. [03:49:24] Yeah. [03:49:25] I call it from a mile away. [03:49:28] But that was an experience that I’ve almost seen in my life. [03:49:31] It was almost like you could touch the cars. [03:49:33] They were right across the catch fence. [03:49:36] But then that checkered flag waved. [03:49:39] And it was all over. [03:49:42] 400 laps, just like that. [03:49:48] You hear that? [03:49:52] The sound of the racetrack. [03:49:55] You hear that? [03:49:58] The sound I felt when I was locked up in a cage. [03:50:01] Not a damn thing. [03:50:04] But that’s not true about us. [03:50:06] Whether it’s one person, two people, whether it’s a religion, or yourself. [03:50:13] Think of yourself as money, man. [03:50:15] And you’re going to see what I’ve won with this. [03:50:18] You can fold. [03:50:19] You can crumble up a dollar. [03:50:20] No matter what way you fold it. [03:50:23] It’s still got its motherfucking worth. [03:50:27] Facts. [03:50:28] Facts. [03:50:33] 20, 50. [03:50:35] $100 with a blue stripe in the middle. [03:50:40] But y’all lives is priceless. [03:50:42] Can’t no one put you in a box. [03:50:44] And that’s what I want you to remember. [03:50:47] That checkered flag doesn’t fall for the people next to you. [03:50:51] It falls for you. [03:50:53] It falls for every single one of you. [03:50:57] But you’re not racing nobody else like you are in the sport. [03:51:02] You just racing yourself will be better. [03:51:04] And every lap is improving your lap time. [03:51:07] 20 seconds. [03:51:08] 20.2. [03:51:09] 19.8. [03:51:11] Just gaining on the leader. [03:51:13] And it might sound true because the leader is yourself. [03:51:16] It’s the benchmark that you set for yourself. [03:51:18] But once you pass it, damn do you feel unstoppable. [03:51:24] And that’s what I want every one of you to walk away with. [03:51:28] Don’t let nobody put you in a motherfucking box. [03:51:31] Simple as that.