Shine On Nas

[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, shine on 'em
Shine on 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em, shine on 'em

[Verse: 1]
Yeah, 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
Yeah, 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 killer 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?