"you gettin older player, look at those who gave up" - nas, "life we chose"

bein a Nas track, there are a plethora of quotables.. but these closing lines stick out the most to me:

"Who's wrong? Foul all your life, now you 90
On your deathbed, you regret bein grimy?
What's lust, a bust nut? What's a thug?
A ghetto child raised around drugs, til he's old enough to bust slugs?
Then what's jail, to rehabilitate, or to make a nigga worse
when he come home to catch another case?
Life's about decisions, you choose it, you gotta live it
You did it, heaven or hell or prison -
Who knows when your clock'll stop tickin, get your weight up
Save up before it's over neighbor, I told ya:
You gettin older player, look at those who gave up"

another neglected jewel from the G.O.A.T. - even if not for anything else, simply because of the impact his music has had on own my life and thoughts..

PS. if you can, try to check out the much sleeker and sexier remix of this with MF Doom's jazzy genius of an instrumental..