Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix) featuring Jay-Z lyrics

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Lyrics:

[Kanye]

Good morning! This ain't Vietnam, still

People loses hands, legs, arms, for real

Little was known of Sierra Leone

and how it connected to the diamonds we own

When I speak of diamonds in the song

I ain't talking bout the ones to be glown

I'm talkin' bout Roc-a-Fella, my home

My chain, these ain't 'Conflict Diamonds'

Is they Jacob? Don't lie to me, man

See, a part of me say keep shinin'

How? When I know what a 'Blood Diamond' is

Though it's thousands of miles away

Sierra Leone connected to what we go through today

Over here, it's a drug trade, we die from drugs

Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs

The diamonds, the chains, the bracelets, the charms-es

I thought my Jesus piece was so harmless

'Til I seen a picture of a shorty armless

And here's the conflict...

It's in a black person's soul to rock that gold

Spend your whole life tryin' get that ice

Oh, the Polo rugby, it look so nice

How could something so wrong make me feel so right?

Right before I beat up myself like Ike

You could still throw your Roc-A-Fella Diamond tonight

Because...

<> ARE FOREVER

[Kanye]People asking me is I gon' give my chain back

That'll be da same day I give da game back

You know the next question ah y'all were Dame at?

This track the Indian Dance to give our rain back

What's up wit you and Jay man are y'all ok man?

[Jay-Z]Yup! I got it from here, 'Ye, damn

The chain remains, the game is intact

The name is mine, I'll take the blame for that

The pressure's on, but guess who ain't gon' crack?

Pardon me, I had to laugh at that

How could you falter, when you the Rock of Gibraltar

I had to get off the boat, so I could walk on water

This ain't no tall order, this is nothing to me

Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week

I do this in my sleep

I sold kilos of coke, I'm guessin' I could sell CDs

I'm not a business-man, I'm a business, man!

Let me handle my business, damn

Kanye-z, you got me, Freeway then Foxy,

YG's, Teiarra Mari, Peedi, watch me

Bleek could be one hit away his whole career

As long as I'm alive, he's a millionaire

And even if I die, he's in my will somewhere

So he could just kick back and chill somewhere

Oh yeah, he don't even have to write rhymes

The Dynasty, like my money last three life times

Shirley Bassey in rear, saying "exactly''

Whatever, saying "practically" my whole career

The Diamond is forever, I been mining this forever

Now the Louis Vuitton Don is timin' couldn't be better

People lined up to see the Titanic sinking

Instead, we rose from the ashes like a phoenix

If you waitin' for end of the Dynasty sign

It would seem like forever, it's a mighty long time

I'm Young, bitches!

Goodnight!