[Man Singing & Humming in Foreign Language]

[Intro: Nas]

They wanna shine on 'em

Shine on 'em [x7]

Yeah

[Verse 1: Nas]

They dug me out the soil in the Mines of the Motherland

Now I'm misplaced, one hand to another hand

Illegal smugglin', people strugglin'

Wish they could just throw me back in the mud again

Yeah, guess that's how we got here

Slave Trade then the Diamond Trade

Every child's afraid

When his Mother and Father get sprayed

Forced in the Army, young killer Brigade

Gets a new name and then he give his nose glue

Til' his mind can't take what he's gon' through

Lookin' in that dirt for that ice so blue

Then The Royal Family, the ice goes to

And this thing has to change, feelin' half-ashamed

As I rap with my Platinum chain

When you shop for a gift for me

jesus
alive
illegal
homes
every
humming
encrusted
history
intro
harvest
chain
father
jewelry
separated
apartheid
foreign
killed
bloodshed
about
pretty
annually
bless
world
glimmers
death
guess
ignores
ashamed
everybody
shine
diamonds
heaven
family
lacks
through
bought
chest
equality
nobody
another
change
stores
diamond
young
brigade
husbands
wives
holiday
greed
throw
clarity
afraid
conflict
killer
called
again
crowded
language
mines
people
misery
misplaced
shocks
motherland
mutilated
piece
mother
watch
platinum
poverty
right
starve
could
rocks
forced
royal
think
robbery
wants
without
season
sprayed
shaped
singing
slave
wonder
their
there
thing
trade
perfect
vanity
verse
wanna
snatched
whole
wrist

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