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Conflict Diamonds

"Conflict Diamonds" Lyrics by Lupe Fiasco

Diamonds are forever

They won’t leave in the night

I’ve no fear that they might

Desert me

Uhh, F and F, up

Diamonds are forever

Yeah, ya know what I’m saying

I figure, I feel like I’m should just, ya no

Show people the other side that wonder

Where, ya know wat I’m sayin’

That are presently unaware

They don’t know about it, ya no wat I’m sayin’

Ya know jus’ show ’em there’s another side

To this thing right here we call bling

Allow me to break down the game

Behind the bracelets, earrings

Chains, watches and rings, the bling

The crystal encrusted, princess flooded

Canary studded, blue colored and blood stained

Yeah, the older brother of the drug game

That giver of fame, the take awayer of lame

The empowerer of the kings that came to claims and disease

Believe what the native people were saying

Believe my engagement ring received and flossed

At the cost of a bondage child minus pain

Long ago kings use to wear ’em in their armor

When they fought other armies because it use to scare ’em

If you wasn’t rich couldn’t wear em

Witches use to marry and they’d shoot you before they share ’em

The gift and the curse, the venom and the serum

Most hated ladies best friend get marked for a clip

You know what I’m sayin’, I ain’t comin’ down on nobody

You know what I’m sayin’, I ain’t tryin’ to judge nobody

Or nutin’ like that

You know wat I’m sayin’, I’ve lost to

I might go and get me a pinky ring tommorow

You know wat I’m sayin’ but I just want you to see man

You know wat I’m sayin’, jus’ see, man

Sissero so old and genocide

Until the countryside just to get his shine on

I fear what the beards and his peers use to do

Before the world really knew just to get they mind on

Making paper from slave labor and hittin’ little kids

With life time bids making ’em cut and shine stones

Inflating the price and making ’em look nice

And I wasn’t thinking twice when I was putting mine on

About a young shorty in Sierra Leone

Or other conflict countries that people call home

I figured I would never go to Angola

So it never did affect me that made me

Though maybe indirectly

That my necklace was funding a rebellion or a military coo

Started by militias that don’t believe in following none of Geneva’s rules

I was brushing of the haters, trying to be cool

Didn’t have a clue that the rapper was helping the rapers

Raiders of the villagers, pillagers of the schools

Shooters of the innocent, torturers of the witnesses

Burners of the businesses

At my birth there was the few

Uhh, I ain’t pushing an agenda, homie

I’m jus’ pushing the facts, fuck Bush

‘Cause there’s people doin’ worse on this earth and there black

I took it for years now let me bring it back

We all know on foreign shores that they finance wars

But asks yourself do they finance yours

When I first got mine I took ’em out on tour

They only lost half the value when I took ’em out the store

Or it was full of moistened Nikes and cubics

But the jeweler knew I was stupid and that I couldn’t prove it

Feeling like I need it because I do music

To impress the groupies and the interviewers

So I didn’t appraise it nor did I loop it

Even gave ’em to my girl thinkin’ I was cupid

Homies were all hating, hoping they could make me lose it

Creeping through my own hood, knew I had to remove it

I see the Russian Mafia, the Jewish Mobsters

The undercover terrorists and the traps for the hustlers

Homie, it’s a rap for the nonsense rhyming

Props to Kenya I call it conflict diamonds

You know what I’m sayin’, I ain’t comin’ down on nobody

You know what I’m sayin’, I ain’t tryin’ to judge nobody

Or nutin’ like that

You know wat I’m sayin’, I’ve lost to

I might go and get me a pinky ring tommorow

You know wat I’m sayin’ but I just want you to see man

You know wat I’m sayin’, jus’ see, man

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