Diamonds ft. Level 13 & Mc Wicks Lyrics

We're from the struggle ugh, but not defined in it

Rewind the timing when the pressure turns to diamonds

Reminded and looking back and never blinded

Misguided lives hearing sirens above the silence

I'm takin solace survivors spitting saliva

In us and never on us never promised no applauses

Was only yesterday we were stealing Now and Later's

Free and never gave us, so it's peace to my collaborators

It's the ascension from spitting freestyles on park benches

To hit these stages with the words written in sentences

It's what the essence is ever since adolescents

Its effortless descendant's together we representatives

That's how I operate, this shit is hard to earn

Had to learn to take the longer route when letting bridges burn

That's what it is, these gems are for the kids

Because most are trying to make it to the places I already did

Shining in the light, diamonds created by the pressure

Wrote my life lessons down turned them in to treasure

Diamonds, longevity live forever

And make it through the struggle because we good under pressure

That's what it is, these gems are for the kids

Most are trying to make, uh they trying to make it, uh

That's what it is, these gems are for the kids

Most are trying to make, uh they trying to make it, uh

I climbed out the gutter, climbed out the mud

Gotta stay out the way or catch a slug

Little babies inspired to be thugs

And if your hungry you wanted to sell drugs

Pimps cold hearted hoes no there's no love

In the ghetto surrounded by all the back stabbers

Crabs in the bucket trying to get past ya

Corrupt cops profile just to harass ya

Because your poor your not knowing your worth

When you don't got dollars feel lower then dirt

But your a diamond created by all this pressure

Financial literacy one day you'll teach a lecture

Stay hungry like Hannibal fuckin Lecter

For your family you gotta be the protector

I'm all about peace but will put you up on the stretcher

And when it comes to getting this money I'm the collector

Shining in the light, diamonds created by the pressure

Wrote my life lessons down turned them in to treasure

Diamonds, longevity live forever

And make it through the struggle because we good under pressure

That's what it is, these gems are for the kids

Most are trying to make, uh they trying to make it, uh

That's what it is, these gems are for the kids

Most are trying to make, uh they trying to make it, uh