Offense Defense - Akira the Don, Gary Vaynerchuk

You’re either on the offense

Or defense

You’re either on the offense o

Or defense

I think a lot of people think they’re in the middle

In a transit

You’re only on the offense

Or the defense

I’ve realized that

I’ve been on the offense my whole life

Because I never felt entitled to anything

An incredible thing happens

When you’re born with very little

You know, I was born in the Soviet Union

We come to America I live in a studio apartment in Queens

My parents bought me six toys

In my entire life kind of thing

We took one family vacation in my entire life

When I wanted Nintendo

My mom looked me dead in the face

And said, «Good, go buy it»

On the flip side

She reinforced things that came natural to me

And made them the most important things

While I was getting Ds and Fs

And every other immigrant parent

Was making their kids get

'Cause they thought that’s what mattered

My mom was accelerating any time that

I showed compassion

Any time that I showed empathy

Any time that I showed gratitude

You’re either on the offense

Or defense

You’re either on the offense

Or defense

I think a lot of people think they’re in the middle

In a transit

You’re only on the offense

Or the defense

I once opened a door

And I will remember this for the rest of my life

I was eight

I opened a door for a woman

You would have thought

That I won a Nobel Peace Prize

My mom made such a big deal about that

You have to understand what she did

No matter how bad you have it

Millions, billions have it worse

And so, for me

The mindset that I pulled in this whole game

Is nobody cares

Nobody cares

And not that they don’t care, people have compassion

But they can’t

Think about how much you even care

Even for people you love the most

It’s just a human thing

And more importantly

We have it ridiculously good

You’re either on the offense

Or defense

You’re either on the offense

Or defense

I think a lot of people think they’re in the middle

In a transit

You’re only on the offense

Or the defense

This Internet thing

This Internet thing

Is the most important invention

In the history of the human being

All the things that you worry about

Of like the man stopping you

Or something stopping you

All these things that we envision

That are the reasons why you haven’t been successful

This Internet thing is taking away

The Internet

The Internet is the middleman

It’s true

You have to understand

How ridiculous

This thing is

The ability for you to create content

Videos, pictures, and written words direct to the audience

Eliminates any excuse you come up with

I could literally spend the next month one by one

Systematically going through this big room

And no matter what excuse you come up with

The answer’s gonna be, «And?»

We have to eliminate complaining

And dwelling

We have to

And that’s what she did for me

She instilled the right positive things

And most of all, she eliminated fucking excuses

She eliminated entitlement

She eliminated fucking excuses

She eliminated entitlement

2x (Chorus)

You’re either on the offense

Or defense

You’re either on the offense

Or defense

I think a lot of people think they’re in the middle

In a transit

You’re only on the offense

Or the defense