Conflict Diamonds
Click on the video below to listen to Conflict Diamonds by Lupe Fiasco. Below the video are the lyrics. Enjoy!
Diamonds are forever,
They wont 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 should just, ya know
Show people the other side that wonder where, ya know what I'm sayin', that are presently unaware.
They don't know about it, ya know what I'm sayin', ya know just show 'em there's another side to this thing right here,
we call bling!
[Verse 1:]
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 away-er of lame.
The empower-er 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 merked for a clip.
[Chorus]
Yeah, 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 nothin' like that..
You know what I'm sayin' I've lost to..
I might go and get me a pinky ring tomorrow..
You know what I'm sayin'...
But I just want you to see man..
You know what I'm sayin'...
Just see man..
[Verse 2:]
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 just pushing the facts, Fuck Bush!
'Cause there's people doin' worse on this earth, and they're 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 Kanye, I call it Conflict Diamonds.
[Chorus]
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