JAY-Z - Diamonds Is Forever

[00:01.02] Can you hear me now? Good! (Blueprint 2 baby!) [00:05.67] The best of times, it was the worst of times (aoww) [00:09.92] It's "The Gift & the Curse" [00:12.26] R.O.C. YEAH, number one click HERE [00:14.30] If you represent US, throw them diamonds up YEAH [00:17.27] Now let's be CLEAR, I ain't goin no-WHERE [00:20.33] Now that you KNOW, holla at your boy [00:23.46] HOV'. (Hov', Hov', Hov') [00:26.26] (Hov', Hov', Hov', Hov') [00:27.21] Yeah, Roc-A-Fella Records [00:28.29] You know what diamond is [00:29.33] We ain't goin nowhere, put your diamonds up [00:31.72] Standin in my b-boy stance [00:34.07] Free, Beans, Memphis where you at nigga? [00:37.22] (Right here) Snatch Cam and it's a rap [00:39.33] This here rap belong to us, nobody strong as us, it's a fact [00:41.84] Hold up I'm just warmin up, gimme a second to get it back [00:45.33] Young Chris, Neek what? Oschino and Sparks [00:48.09] Next summer's yo' summer, tear this motherfucker up [00:51.19] Young is eternal, my young'uns'll burn you [00:53.69] "The Blueprint" birthed, nigga I earthed you, you can't be serious [00:56.56] Young cause I'm thirty-two, dressed like I'm twenty-two [00:59.16] Flow like a 18, do what I wanna do [01:01.93] Goin on my 8th ring, got Phil Jackson's and [01:04.94] Flow is black magic, I'm at it again [01:07.34] Rose Bowl with black karats, "Horse & Carriage" to spend [01:10.03] Like Mason Betha, chasin this cheddar, to the end [01:13.17] Of the road because the end I'm told is nearer than we know [01:16.98] What can I say but live for today, HOV'! [01:40.80] Yeah, "The Blueprint 2" homey, follow the moves [01:42.74] You put on two tube socks, you couldn't walk in my shoes [01:46.30] I was dealt a bad hand, fuck what else could I do [01:49.27] But keep somethin up my sleeve that'll help me through [01:52.16] But can you believe, everywhere I'm at, models come through [01:54.97] Cat-fightin, cat-walkin, it happens often [01:58.17] It's true how society don't want me to move [02:00.53] Into the penthouse building with spectacular views [02:03.50] They're like uhh, "He's a menace he could never be a tenant" [02:06.33] I'm like ooh, what's a young nigga to do? [02:08.70] I bring the brothers to the building give a feeling that I don't [02:11.72] Give a fuck we just chillin watchin chandelier ceilings high as fuck [02:14.73] Old lady, don't blow my high [02:17.24] 'Specially if you don't know my life, don't make me bring [02:20.64] Sharpton in it cause I'm dark-skinneded or [02:22.91] Dude with the 'fro and the Rainbow Coalition, I'ma [02:26.06] Victim of a single parent household, born in a mousehole [02:28.88] Mousetrap, niggaz wanna know [02:31.66] How so, how Jay get up out that, here, yeah [02:34.39] I snatched purses I per-se-vered, yeah [02:37.97] I had work, fiends purchased, it was clear [02:40.55] I was out there sellin hope for despair, but stop there [02:43.68] I swear, I only make good from my mouth to God's ears [02:47.14] Had to get out the hood [02:48.92] And I can't justify genocide [02:51.12] But I was born in the city where the skinny niggaz die [02:53.88] Born in the city where the skinny niggaz ride [02:56.67] And as a skinny nigga I had beef with high size [03:03.04]