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Diamonds by Common

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Common

Diamonds

Release date: 7th July 2014

From Nobody’s Smiling
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About This Track

"Diamonds" is a track by Common, from the album Nobody’s Smiling, released 7th July 2014. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Common

Common

Lyrics

Diamonds

[Produced by No I.D.]

[Intro: Big Sean]

Ohh

Walk up in the thing, got my campaign poppin'

Champagne poppin', bad thang poppin'

Headed to the door, and ain't a damn thing knockin'

Nooo

Walk up in the thing and everybody with me mobbin'

Campaign poppin', champagne poppin'

[Verse 1: Common]

I wrote this on my born day, it was a warm day

Niggas gotta eat, we gon' do it gourmet

I'm hearing fuckin' voices, like when porn play

Stay, stay on your grind like foreplay

What more can I say? Diamonds are for the day

That means to shine, you find a way

Stayed on porches, backyards, and gangways

Learned strange ways between Cole and Langley

Champagne ambitions

I pour it out for my man who made  his transition

Wars about paper, pussy, pride, and ego

Born to fly, call me the bald eagle

Open shows at the Regal for Daddy Kane and Eazy-E though

Boys in the hood is hard like kilos of heroin

The hero that came from zero

My bars and my PR like Puerto Rico

This broad from the DR said I was frío

That's Ice Cold like Dre, triple three yo

Pinot noir style, better with time

I'm gambling with watches getting better with time

So I'ma ride this out for long as God allow me

They say "time is money", forever is my salary

I shine tomorrow with what I do today

Yo, get this money, put the diamonds on display

[Hook: Big Sean]

Ohh

Walk up in the thing and got my campaign poppin'

Champagne poppin', bad thang poppin'

Headed to the door, and ain't a damn thing knockin'

Nooo

Walk up in the thing and everybody with me mobbin'

Campaign poppin', champagne poppin'

Hit you with the street sweeper now you gotta get to moppin'

Nooo

[Bridge: Big Sean]

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay

Tryna get it every way, every day, day, day

Tryna get it every way, every day, ay, ay

Ay, ay, ay, ay

Tryna get it every way, every day

Tryna get it every way, every day, ay ay

Tryna get it every way, every day, day, day

[Verse 2: Common]

Bars in alignment, stars in alignment

Raw off consignment, God's in the diamonds

Evolve from the science, power and refinement

Read between the lines, hard to define us

Niggas that's behind us, throwing up signs to signify us

In the Benz leaning like we biased

I've seen Len Bias, that shit scared me

You can go pro and blow everything you have in a flash

The moment is to live it like your last

Moments that we have never living in the last

My time, man, precious like diamonds

Look through the glass, see what I magnify, man

I'ma be shining 'til I die, man

I'm a rare diamond that's hard to find, man

Climbing to the mountain top, MLK day

To the streets I speak my piece like an A.K

47 to 87 to the hundreds

Jewels I could run it for the hunted and the blunted

Dreams reflect clarity, ain't no disparity

Between peace and prosperity, so marry me

Diamonds

[Verse 3: Big Sean with Common]

Reminiscing when I had everything on layaway

I'm rolling with me and my partner like it was Training Day

Way before the ballin' that was back off in the training days

I used to hit the barber chair and say "I need that fadeaway"

Had a crush on what's her name, them feelings never fade away

Older brother gang bang, banging like an 808

Said you can't take his chain away

Real player you can't take this game away

Slang away, walk up in this thing like a real Rockefeller

But you can't take my dame away

Devil in a red dress, but she got that angel face

I could teach her how to get it day-to-day-to-day-to-day

The G code is my combination

Catch me off in the bank thumbing through all kinds of faces

Catch me off in court, beating all kinds of cases

Weed, money, pussy, liquor, that's my favorite compilation

Diamonds

[Outro: Common]

Diamonds

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Big Sean, Common, No I.D.
    Producer
    No I.D.
    Keyboards
    James Poyser
    Assistant Engineer
    Josh Story, Mike Kuz
    Mixing Engineer
    Young Guru
    Recording Engineer
    Maximilian Jaeger, Michael “Law” Thomas
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