Nas - Shine On 'Em lyrics

[Produced by Salaam Remi] [Hook:] Everybody wants Heaven but nobody wants dead Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed Everybody wants Heaven but nobody wants dead Everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed They wanna shine on 'em Shine on 'em Shine on 'em [Verse 1:] Yea, they dug me out the soil and the mines of the motherland Now I'm displaced, one hand to another hand Illegal smugglin', people strugglin' Wish they could just throw me back in the mud again Yea, guess that's how we got here, slave trade and the diamond trade Every childs afraid when his mother and father get sprayed Forced in the army, young k**er brigade Get's a new name, then he gets his nose glued Till his mind can't take what he's going through Lookin' in the dirt for that ice so blue Then the royal family the ice go to And this thing has to change, feelin' half ashamed As I rap with my platinum chain When you shop for me you think about the misery? The same way we made apartheid history We can do the same way to the conflict ice But everybody wanna shine right? [Hook:] [Verse 2:] My VVS glimmers on my chest, 200 thou encrusted watch on my wrist I wonder how how people starve to d**h, when God blessed the land that lacks the harvest The stones are quality, but their homes are poverty And the whole world ignores the robbery Bought my girl pretty rocks, but she mad at me Tear drop shape, ugh, perfect clarity It shocks so many are k**ed annually Cause of greed, lust, and pure vanity Stop talkin' and do somethin' about it Every holiday season, j**elry stores crowded Kids snatched from they homes, mutilated alive Husbands separated from wives Keep a Jesus Piece to be fly But there was a time back in the day when they called that shine [Hook:] [Outro:] Incomprehensible singing