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[Nas:]
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They wanna shine on it
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Shine on it [repeated]
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Yah
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They dug me the soil of mines in the motherland
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Now I've placed from one hand to another hand
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Illegal smuggling, people struggling,
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Wish they can just throw me back in the mud again
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Yeh, this is how we got here
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Slave trade and the diamond trade
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Every childs afraid, when his mother or father gets sprayed
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Forced in the army, young killer brigade
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Gets a new name, then he gets his nose glued
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His mind can't take what he's going through
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Lookin' in the dirt for that ice ol' blue
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Then the royal family the ice goes to
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This thing has to change, feelin' half ashamed
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As i rap with my platinium chain
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When you shop for a gift for me
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You think about the misery
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The same way we made a part our history
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We could do the same to the complect ice
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But everybody wanna shine right?
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Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead
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Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
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Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead
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Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
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They wanna shine on em [repeated]
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Uh
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My bbs glimmers on my chest
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Two hundred thousand crested watch on my wrist
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I wonder how people starve to death
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When God blessed the land that lacks the harvest
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Their stones are quality, but their homes are poverty
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And the whole world ignores the robbery
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I bought my girl pretty rocks and she is mad at me
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Tear drop shaped uh, perfect clarity
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It shocks so many are killed annually
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Cause of greed, lust, and pure vanity
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Stop talkin' and do something about it
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Every holiday season, jewelery stores crowded
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Kids snatched from their homes, mutilated alive
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Husbands spreaded from wives
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Keep a Jesus peace to be fly
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But back in the day, there was a time they called us shine
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Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead
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Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
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Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead
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Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed
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They wanna shine on em [repeated]
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