Listen to Diamond in the Ruff (feat. Thando & Krown) by Sampa the Great

Diamond in the Ruff (feat. Thando & Krown)

Sampa the Great

Hip-Hop/Rap

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Sampa The Great - Diamond In The Ruff (feat. Thando, Krown) (Official Audio)

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Sampa the Great

Sampa the Great

Performer

Thando

Vocals

Krown

Vocals

Alejandro Abapo

Alejandro Abapo

Drum Programming

Kumar Shome

Guitar

Mwanje Tembo

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Krown

Lyrics

Alejandro Abapo

Alejandro Abapo

Songwriter

Sampa Tembo

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Alejandro Abapo

Alejandro Abapo

Producer

Andrei Eremin

Mixing Engineer

Evan Lorden

Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I think you're, you're, you're, you're

I think you're, you're, you're, you're

I think you're, you're, you're, you're

I think you're gold

[Verse 2]

Church

[Verse 3]

Good god, diamond in the ruff

Wonder why they spitting, looking shinier and lush

Spit shine

Vibier with time

Knew it was a matter, of course, they all false

Like most

Love you when you lost

Now they side eyeing when you're speedy on your growth

Ugh, gross

I expected most

Lost within the politics of looking like a boss

[Verse 4]

Doors

You opened the doors

Only if the body walking openly is yours

Loss

Remember the cause

Boy Scout cookies while I'm queening in my sauce

Of course

Y'all are at a loss

Passion I am packing, I'm a vacuum for the cause

False

I was never yours

Let me elevate, cause truly who is better, who is better

[Verse 5]

I feel no pressure

Shinier than most

I feel no pressure

Diamond in the ruff

I feel no pressure

Shinier than most

I feel no pressure

Who is better, who is better

Who is better, who is better

[Verse 6]

We know

They want your sauce

I let them know, of course it's not yours

We know

They want your sauce

We let them know, of course it's not yours

[Verse 7]

Me

Sammy go for aeons

How slow can you go, you see she be on

I'm sicken

All up in her kitchen

Cooking up the new wave, biting my fruition

Not candid

Half of y'all can't stand it

Chocolate on your box screen, seasoning intended

Not fighting

I'm already shining

Dripping in precision, tell me who is better, who is better

[Verse 8]

Sammy

All up on your grammy

Looking for my circle so they find a way to at me

Small family

They can't even stand me

Bloodstream drippin', said we sippin' gold in family

Truly

How you try to do me?

School me to the industry and now you tryna do me

Not trippin'

Lookin' how I livin'

Inner peace is drippin', tell me who is better, who is better

[Verse 9]

I feel no pressure

Shinier than most

I feel no pressure

Diamond in the ruff

I feel no pressure

Shinier than most

I feel no pressure

Who is better, who is better

Who is better, who is better

[Verse 10]

We know

They want your sauce

I let them know, of course it's not yours

We know

They want your sauce

We let them know, of course it's not yours

[Verse 11]

Hell's fury taste like a slushy play, safe devil don't touch me

Met him on the highway to freedom

Said, the world's ugly, made in his image

In garden of Eden the naked truth

Of the spiritual war demons took despicable fallin' men

With back on the wall, my black soul's a black gold

I can't be sold a perfect stone

I was born with no price tag, carried along in a weather storm

Still strong a soldier on some God mode

Now do your research, how do I work?

Like an eternal melody when the beat's on

Church drums got me perfectin', hallelujah

I been a buddha in the midst a black Jesus

Resurrected, success ladder we move up

Even tho shackled in skin prison

We got weapons like the music

So, let's begin, singin' songs of freedom till the end, and it goes

[Verse 12]

Get me out of your heart full of hate, I cannot stand

Just let me play my part, if I ain't black, I'm another man

So, do you understand what it takes to walk in my shoes

My physical vehicle on the news, away from Sudan, I still don't lose

(I still don't lose)

[Verse 13]

We keep the essence linked up with Sampa the Great

To give them the message, so instead a crack epidemic

Excellent blacks representin', what up?

[Verse 14]

We know

They want your sauce

I let them know, of course it's not yours

We know

They want your sauce

We let them know, of course it's not yours

[Verse 15]

It's not yours

Of course, it's not yours

It's not yours

Of course, it's not yours

It's not yours

Of course, it's not yours

It's not yours

Of course, it's not yours

Written by: Alejandro Abapo, Katsunori Ishida, Krown, Sampa Tembo, Thando Sikwila

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