[ti:Self Conscience (feat. Prodigy of Mobb Deep & Nas) ] [ar:Nas] [al:Nas and Ill Will Records Presents: QB Finest] [00:06.36]Prodigy: [00:19.06]Yo.. [00:20.72]Is it ill, do it need to be fixed? [00:22.59](That shit is real Dunn; and stop talkin like your skills don't kill) [00:25.60]Nah it's just that sometimes I feel like that [00:28.32]I can write more fouler than the last [00:30.96]Prodigy's "Conscience": [00:31.17]Yo that shit is cash trust me Dunn; I'll never lead you astray [00:33.79]Take my word niggas wanna hear how you think [00:36.21]It be that shit that you wouldn't expect to win [00:38.82]That stay playin in they decks over and again [00:41.56]Speak your thoughts, put your all in it [00:43.27]Whatever's in your mind, spit it [00:44.98]Place your anger on the page, release tension on the tape [00:47.44]A stress verse, seem to be what they most thirst [00:50.01]Makes fake niggas disperse, they never challenge what works [00:52.28]Prodigy: [00:52.59]Balancin the weakness, is what I specialize in [00:55.06]Dunn you my nigga cause you keep me hype when I'm writin [00:57.56]Kept me on point in the night when it might go down [01:00.08]Keep me eyes wide in the daytime as well [01:02.86]Kept me focused on what's real and nuttin else [01:05.33]I find it healthy, to conversate with myself [01:07.95]I kick it with my delf (I kept you alive, all these years) [01:10.73]It's that inner voice you shoulda took heed to and shit [01:13.36]Coulda been home instead of bleedin [01:15.39]Maybe next time you'll listen when it speaks [01:17.02]Prodigy's "Conscience": [01:17.55]Yo Dunn, I got a story to tell [01:19.36]Remember last week's mission? I told you bring the gun [01:22.16](Yeah I remember) Nah listen, without me you'd be a memory [01:24.66]I'm the one you could come to for guidance [01:26.96]Bring you home alive when you wildin [01:29.17]Kept you out of harm's way, told you when to spray [01:31.38]Told you when it's time to put it away [01:33.19]And when the cops came, you was safe [01:34.91]Prodigy: [01:35.06]Without question, I stay aware Dunn I'm listenin [01:37.30]Everytime we speak it's real, I know your intention's [01:39.87]To make sure we both safe and livin, and breathin [01:42.56]You gets all respect from me Dunn, believe it [01:44.56]Prodigy's "Conscience": [01:45.39]Yo we got kids to raise and bills to pay [01:47.38]Enemies to lay down when they stand in our way, it's only us [01:50.66](What about the clique?) Now if you die is they comin? [01:53.33]When you shot do they feel the bullet? [01:55.00]And when you broke can they fix it? Aight then, you keep writin [01:58.07]And let me do the thinkin, I brought us this far without mistaken [02:00.86]Nas: [02:01.06]Voices in my head from choices that I dreaded choosin [02:03.49]Cautions I shoulda took heed, lost in my weed, steady losin [02:06.26]Thug stripes, badges of honor, forces to succeed [02:08.82]Whores on they knees, fuckin with millionaires, killers and thieves [02:11.56]I fuck until there's no feelin where, I bust and I pee [02:14.12]I lusted cars but I suffered and my scars run deep [02:16.59]I stay to myself, one deep, pray to my God cause he [02:19.82]Say when it's hard get on one knee, and ask Thy for forgiveness [02:23.02]Fuck the cash, the ice, the Ferrari's [02:24.89]With two-twenty on the dash when your life ain't right [02:27.17]See niggas smile up in your face and stick a knife in your back [02:30.10]Snakes shake your hand and got his dick up in your wife back [02:32.61]Why's it like that? It's life black, this is the game [02:35.33]The way I see it both bitches and niggas, is the same [02:37.90]I trust myself, I can't fuck myself [02:39.90]When hoes leave and no weed I still know me, just myself [02:43.36]Fear is weakness learn from what experience teaches [02:45.96]Beware of leeches, the vampires, my secret's [02:48.38]Never follow, cause most niggas is straight up cowards [02:51.36]Take care of my body's the temple, my mind is the power