[00:00.55]KANYE WEST LYRICS
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[00:00.88]"Diamonds From Sierra Leone"
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[00:02.92]Diamonds are forever
[00:04.08]They won't leave in the night
[00:06.89]I've no fear that they might
[00:09.93]Desert me
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[00:14.80]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[00:17.79]Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
[00:19.73]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
[00:24.66]The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
[00:25.12]Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......
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[00:34.06]Close your eyes and imagine, feel the magic
[00:35.44]Vegas on acid,
[00:36.32]Seen through Yves St. Laurent glasses
[00:39.68]And I've realized that I've arrived, cuz
[00:42.06]It take more than a magazine to kill my Vibe does
[00:44.50]he write his own rhymes, so sort of
[00:46.47]I think 'em
[00:47.39]That mean I forgot better shit than u ever thought up
[00:49.51]Damn, is he really that caught up?
[00:51.45]I ask if you talkin' bout classics, do my name get brought up?
[00:54.30]I remember I couldn't afford a Ford Escort or even a four-track recorder
[00:59.28]so its only right that I let the top drop on a drop-top Porsche
[01:01.86]- its for yourself that's important
[01:04.44]If a stripper named Porscha and u get tips from many men
[01:11.28]Then your fat friend her nickname is Minivan
[01:11.54]Excuse me,
[01:11.96]That's just the Henny, man, I smoke, I drink, I'm supposed to stop I can't because
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[01:14.73]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[01:16.72]Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
[01:18.84]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
[01:21.60]The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
[01:23.81]Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......
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[01:33.35]I was sick about awards
[01:34.87]Couldn't nobody cure me
[01:36.16]Only playa that got robbed but kept all his jewelry
[01:38.58]Alicia Keys tried to talk some sense to them
[01:41.07]30 minutes later seems there's no convincing them
[01:43.56]What more can you ask for?
[01:44.85]The international assholes nah
[01:46.10]Who complains about what he is owed?
[01:48.68]And throw a tantrum like he is 3 years old
[01:50.71]You gotta love it though somebody still speaks from his soul
[01:53.47]And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame,
[01:56.01]When he came, in the game, he made his own lane
[01:58.45]Now all I need is y'all to pronounce my name
[02:00.75]Its Kanye - But some of my plastic - they still say Kane
[02:03.29]Got family in the D, Kin-folk from Motown
[02:06.10]Back in the Chi - them folks ain't from Motown
[02:08.45]Life movin' too fast I need to slow down
[02:10.75]Girl ain't give me no ass, ya need to go down
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[02:13.43]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[02:15.64]My father Ben said I need Jesus
[02:17.58]So he took me to church and let the water wash over my ceaser
[02:18.13]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[02:20.25]The preacher said we need leaders
[02:20.90]Right then my body got still like a paraplegic
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[02:23.44]You know who you can call you gotta best believe it
[02:25.65]The Roc stand tall and you would never believe it
[02:28.02]Take your diamonds and throw 'em up like you bulimic
[02:30.70]Yea the beat cold but the flow is anemic
[02:33.05]After debris settles and the dust get swept off
[02:35.63]Big K pick up where young Hov left off
[02:38.07]Right when magazines wrote Kanye West off
[02:40.56]I dropped my new shit sound like the best of
[02:43.00]A&R's lookin' like "pssh we messed up"
[02:45.63]Grammy night, damn right, we got dressed up
[02:47.75]Bottle after bottle till we got messed up
[02:50.33]In the studio, where really though, yea he next up
[02:52.75]People askin' me if I'm gon' give my chain back
[02:55.33]That'll be the same day I give the game back
[02:57.87]You know the next question dog "Yo, where Dame at?"
[03:00.22]This track the Indian dance to bring our reign back
[03:02.80]"What's up with you and Jay, man, are y'all ok man?"
[03:05.38]They pray for the death of our dynasty like Amen
[03:07.87]R-r-r-right here stands a-man
[03:10.22]With the power to make a diamond with his bare hands...
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[03:12.57]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[03:15.32]Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
[03:17.39]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
[03:20.11]The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
[03:22.37]Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......
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[03:32.41]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
[03:37.80]Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
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[03:49.41]End.....