Following your own advice

Advice is tricky. Everyone gives it and everyone follows at least some of it.

Here is some advice from one of my favourite hip-hop groups, Mobb Deep. The verse is rapped by Prodigy, one of its two members:

Livin' the high life, make your moves at night, pack your heat in this warzone
Niggas is trife, runnin from one time, aint no time to slip, make one
False move and its a up north trip.

To those who don't know the meaning of the word "trife," it means "just getting by" (From here)

To those who are confused as to the meaning of an "up north trip," the rap duo are from Queensbridge, near New York City, and up north would mean upstate, to prison. Or it could mean up to the heavens, where one would go if he were to die.

The advice then, that Prodigy is giving, is to be prepared and, were you to do anything illegal, do it as quickly as possible under cover of the night. Don't screw up.

Here is a link to what Prodigy is doing now: Link He's taking an up north trip. And the advice he gave, he didn't heed.

If there's one thing I can't take, it's someone saying one thing while doing another. Someone not following his own advice.