Diamond Is Forever Lyrics - The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse - Jay-z

Can you hear me now? Good! (Blueprint 2 baby!) 

The best of times, it was the worst of times (aoww) 

It's "The Gift & the Curse" 

[Chorus: Jay-Z] 

R.O.C. YEAH, number one click HERE 

If you represent US, throw them diamonds up YEAH 

Now let's be CLEAR, I ain't goin no-WHERE 

Now that you KNOW, holla at your boy 

HOV'. (Hov', Hov', Hov') 

(Hov', Hov', Hov', Hov') 

[overlapping first Chorus] 

Yeah, Roc-A-Fella Records 

You know what diamond is 

We ain't goin nowhere, put your diamonds up 

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[Jay-Z] 

Standin in my b-boy stance 

Free, Beans, Memphis where you at nigga? 

(Right here) Snatch Cam and it's a rap 

This here rap belong to us, nobody strong as us, it's a fact 

Hold up I'm just warmin up, gimme a second to get it back 

Young Chris, Neek what? Oschino and Sparks 

Next summer's yo' summer, tear this motherfucker up 

Young is eternal, my young'uns'll burn you 

"The Blueprint" birthed, nigga I earthed you, you can't be serious 

Young cause I'm thirty-two, dressed like I'm twenty-two 

Flow like a 18, do what I wanna do 

Goin on my 8th ring, got Phil Jackson's and 

flow is black magic, I'm at it again 

Rose Bowl with black karats, "Horse & Carriage" to spend 

like Mason Betha, chasin this cheddar, to the end 

of the road because the end I'm told is nearer than we know 

What can I say but live for today, HOV'! 

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[Chorus] 

[Jay-Z] 

Yeah, "The Blueprint 2" homey, follow the moves 

You put on two tube socks, you couldn't walk in my shoes 

I was dealt a bad hand, fuck what else could I do 

but keep somethin up my sleeve that'll help me through 

But can you believe, everywhere I'm at, models come through 

Cat-fightin, cat-walkin, it happens often 

It's true how society don't want me to move 

into the penthouse building with spectacular views 

They're like uhh, "He's a menace he could never be a tenant" 

I'm like ooh, what's a young nigga to do? 

I bring the brothers to the building give a feeling that I don't 

give a fuck we just chillin watchin chandelier ceilings high as fuck 

Old lady, don't blow my high 

'specially if you don't know my life, don't make me bring 

Sharpton in it cause I'm dark-skinneded or 

dude with the 'fro and the Rainbow Coalition, I'ma 

victim of a single parent household, born in a mousehole 

Mousetrap, niggaz wanna know 

How so, how Jay get up out that, here, yeah 

I snatched purses I per-se-vered, yeah 

I had work, fiends purchased, it was clear 

I was out there sellin hope for despair, but stop there 

I swear, I only make good from my mouth to God's ears 

Had to get out the hood 

And I can't justify genocide 

But I was born in the city where the skinny niggaz die 

Born in the city where the skinny niggaz ride 

And as a skinny nigga I had beef with high size 

[Chorus]