Diamonds Is Forever-Jay-Z

[ti:Diamonds Is Forever] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:The Blueprint 2 The Gift & The Curse] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Diamonds Is Forever - Jay-Z [00:00.09]Written by：Shawn Carter/Chuck Stanton/Theron Otis Feemster [00:00.19]Can you hear me now good blueprint 2 baby [00:05.77]The best of times it was the worst of times aoww [00:09.12]It's the gift the curse [00:09.99] [00:12.18]R o c yeah number one clique here [00:14.76]If you represent us throw them diamonds up yeah [00:17.50]Now let's be clear I ain't goin nowhere [00:20.62]Now that you know holla at your boy [00:22.36] [00:23.05]Hov' hov' hov' hov' [00:23.95] [00:25.82]Hov' hov' hov' hov' [00:27.32]Overlapping first hook [00:27.86]Yeah roc a fella records [00:29.20]You know what diamond is [00:30.25]We ain't goin nowhere put your diamonds up [00:31.87]Standin in my b boy stance [00:33.19] [00:34.09]Free beans memphis where you at ni**a [00:36.50] [00:37.18]Right here snatch cam and it's a wrap [00:39.66]This here rap belong to us nobody strong as us it's a fact [00:43.25]Hold up I'm just warmin up gimme a second to get it back [00:45.78]Young chris neef what oschino and sparks [00:48.51]Next summer's yo' summer tear this motherf**ker up [00:51.36]Young is eternal my young'uns'll burn you [00:53.80]The blueprint birthed ni**a I earthed you you can't be serious [00:56.40] [00:57.04]Young cause I'm thirty two dressed like I'm twenty two [00:59.76]Flow like a 18 do what I wanna do [01:02.45]Goin on my 8 th ring got phil jackson's zen [01:05.40]Flow is black magic I'm at it again [01:07.85]Rose gold with black karats horse carriage to spend [01:10.80] [01:11.33]Like mason betha chasing this cheddar to the end [01:14.17]Of the road because the end I'm told is nearer than we know [01:17.00]What can I say but live for today hov' [01:19.63]R o c yeah number one clique here [01:21.90]If you represent us throw them diamonds up yeah [01:24.85]Now let's be clear I ain't goin nowhere [01:27.66]Now that you know holla at your boy [01:29.72] [01:42.05]Yeah the blueprint 2 homey follow the moves [01:44.15]You put on two tube socks you couldn't walk in my shoes [01:46.93]I was dealt a bad hand f**k what else could I do [01:49.68]But keep somethin up my sleeve that'll help me through [01:51.93] [01:52.83]But can you believe everywhere I'm at models come through [01:55.23]Cat fightin cat walkin it happens often [01:58.61]It's true how society don't want me to move [02:00.91]Into the penthouse building with spectacular views [02:03.31] [02:04.38]They're like uhh he's a menace he could never be a tenant [02:06.80]I'm like ooh what's a young ni**a to do [02:09.12]I bring the brothers to the building give a feeling that I don't [02:12.21]Give a f**k we just chillin watchin chandelier ceilings high as f**k [02:15.90]Old lady don't blow my high [02:17.26] [02:17.78]'Specially if you don't know my life don't make me bring [02:20.33] [02:20.94]Sharpton in it cause I'm dark skinneded or [02:23.42]Dude with the 'fro and the rainbow coalition I'mma [02:26.28]Victim of a single parent household born in a mousehole [02:29.45] [02:30.03]Mousetrap niggas wanna know [02:31.88]How so how jay get up out that here yeah [02:34.22] [02:34.86]I snatched purses I per se vered yeah [02:36.94] [02:37.58]I had work fiends purchased it was clear [02:39.81] [02:40.38]I was out there sellin hope for despair but stop there [02:43.14] [02:43.77]I swear I only make good from my mouth to god's ears [02:47.35]Had to get out the hood [02:48.81]And I can't justify genocide [02:50.97]But I was born in the city where the skinny niggas die [02:54.21]Born in the city where the skinny niggas ride [02:56.35] [02:57.10]And as a skinny ni**a I had beef with high size [02:59.77]R o c yeah number one clique here [03:02.18] [03:02.82]If you represent us throw them diamonds up yeah [03:05.57]Now let's be clear I ain't goin nowhere [03:08.28]Now that you know holla at your boy [03:11.14]Hov' hov' hov' hov' [03:15.19] [03:16.20]Hov' hov' hov' hov'