Nas, Prodigy of Mobb Deep - Self Conscience lyrics

Yo is it ill, do it need to be fixed?
(That shit is real
Dunn and stop talkin' like
Your skills don't kill)
Nah, it's just that sometimes
I feel like that
I can write more fouler than the last

Yo, that shit is cash, trust me
Dunn I'll never lead you astray
Take my word, niggas wanna hear how you think
It be that shit that you
Wouldn't expect to win
That stay playin' in they
Decks over and again
Speak your thoughts, put your all in it
Whatever's in your mind, spit it
Place your anger on the page
Release tension on the tape a stress verse
Seem to be what they most thirst
Makes fake niggas disperse
They never challenge what works

Balancin' the weakness
Is what I specialize in
Dunn, you my nigga 'cause you keep
Me hype while I'm writin'
Kept me on point in the night
When it might go down
Keep me eyes wide in the daytime as well
Kept me focused on what's
Real and nuthin' else
I find it healthy, to conversate with myself
I kick it with my delf
(I kept you alive all these years)
It's that inner voice you shoulda
Took heed to and shit
Coulda been home instead of bleedin'
Maybe next time you'll listen when it speaks

Yo, dunn, I got a story to tell
Remember last week's mission?
I told you bring the gun
(Yeah, I remember) Nah, listen
Without me, you'd be a memory
I'm the one you could come to for guidance
Bring you home alive when you wildin'
Kept you out of harm's way
Told you when to spray
Told you when it's time to put it away
And when the cops came, you was safe

Without question, I stay aware, dunn
I'm listenin'
Everytime we speak it's real
I know your intentions
Is to make sure we both safe and livin'
And breathin'
You gets all respect from me, dunn
Believe it

Yo, we got kids to raise and bills to pay
Enemies to lay down when they
Stand in our way
It's only us (What about the clique?)
Now, if you die, is they comin'?
When you shot, do they feel the bullet?
And when you broke, can they fix it?
Aight then, you keep writin'
And let me do the thinkin'
I brought us this far without mistaken

Voices in my head from choices
That I dreaded choosin'
Cautions I shoulda took heed
Lost in my weed, steady losin'
Thug stripes, badges of honor
Forced to succeed whores on they knees
Fuckin' with millionaires
Killers and thieves
I fuck until there's no feelin' where
I bust and I pee
I lusted cars but I suffered
And my scars run deep
I stay to myself, one deep
Pray to my God 'cause he
Say when it's hard get on one knee
And ask Thy for forgiveness
Fuck the cash, the ice
Ferraris with two-twenty on the dash
When your life ain't right
See, niggas smile up in your face and
Stick a knife in your back
Snakes shake your hand and got his
Dick up in your wife back
Why's it like that? It's life, black
And this is the game
The way I see it: Both bitches and niggas
Is the same
I trust myself, I can't fuck myself
When hoes leave and no weed, I still know me
Just myself fear is weakness
Learn from what experience teaches
Beware of leeches, the vampires, my secrets
Never follow
'cause most niggas is straight up cowards
Take care of my body's the temple
My mind is the power