Diamond is Forever. Typed by: dj.flash@pobox.com. 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. [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'!. [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.