Diamonds are forever   They won't leave in the night   Have no fear that they might   Desert me      Diamonds are forever   (Forever, forever)   Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe   Diamonds are forever   (Forever, forever, forever)   The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme   Forever ever, forever ever   Ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever      Close your eyes and imagine, feel the magic   Vegas on acid   Seen through Yves Saint Laurent glasses   And I've realized that I've arrived 'cuz      It take more than a magazine to kill my Vibe does   He write his own rhymes, well sort of   I think 'em   That mean I forgot better shit than you ever thought of      Damn, is he really that caught up?   I ask if you talkin' 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?   I remember I couldn't afford a Ford Escort   Or even a four-track recorder   So it's only right that I let the top drop on a drop-top Porsche      It's for yourself that's important   If yo're stripper name Porsche   And you get tips from many men   Then your fat friend her nickname is Minivan      Excuse me   That's just the Henny, man   I smoke, I drink, I'm supposed to stop   I can't because      Diamonds are forever   (Forever, forever)   Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe   Diamonds are forever   (Forever, forever, forever)   The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.   Forever ever, forever ever   Ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever      I was sick about awards, couldn't nobody cure me   Only playa that got robbed but kept all his jewelry   Alicia Keys tried to talk some sense to them   30 minutes later seeing there's no convincing them      What more can you ask for?   The international assholes nah   Who complains about what he is owed?   And throw a tantrum like he is 3 years old      You gotta love it though somebody still speaks from his soul   And wouldn't change by the change or the game or the fame   When he came in the game, he made his own lane   Now all I need is y'all to pronounce my name      It's Kanye but some of my plaques, they still say Kane   Got family in the D, Kin-folk from Motown   Back in the Chi, them folks ain't from Motown   Life movin' too fast I need to slow down   Girl ain't give me no ass, ya need to go down      Diamonds are forever   (Forever, forever)   My father Ben said, "I need Jesus"   So he took me to church and let the water wash over my caeser      Diamonds are forever   (Forever, forever)   The preacher said, "We need leaders"   Right then my body got still like a paraplegic      You know who you can call you gotta best believe it   The Roc stand tall and you would never believe it   Take your diamonds and throw 'em up like you bulimic   Yea the beat cold but the flow is anemic      After debris settles and the dust get swept off   Big K pick up where young Hov left off   Right when magazines wrote Kanye West off   I dropped my new shit sound like the best of      A&R's lookin' like, "Pssh we messed up"   Grammy night, damn right, we got dressed up   Bottle after bottle till we got messed up   In the studio where really though, yeah he next up      People askin' is I gon' give my chain back   That'll be the same day I give the game back   You know the next question dog, "Yo, where Dame at?"   This track the Indian dance to bring our reign back      "What's up with you and Jay man, are y'all okay man?"   They pray for the death of our dynasty like Amen   Right here stands a-man   With the power to make a diamond with his bare hands      Diamonds are forever   (Forever, forever)   Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe   Diamonds are forever   (Forever, forever, forever)   The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme   Forever ever, forever ever   Ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever      Diamonds are forever   (Forever, forever)   Diamonds are forever   (Forever, forever, forever)