I throw these kids off stage,
call me akon,
and i'm a little bit tipsy,

call me j-kwon
i light up the sky,
call me napalm,

but i keep it underground,
call me hadron
matter fact,

scratch that,
call me donkey kong,
cause i barrel these pretenders

who act like they belong,
i'm the friend of these
future jd's

donald faison
you've only just heard this
and it's already your favourite song

what do i base that on?
saw your face when we came on
diamond blackfan

eats up these fake mcs
call us pacman
we're so fly in the air

call us panam
or like those digits
on the lateral side of your hand

get them thumbs up



people always tell you,
stop shining,
it's not your moment

start finding,
ways to fit the moulds
that we should be used to

but we are diamonds
and we refuse to



in the real world
dreams aren't deferred

they're deterred
he said i want to be a writer
she said they're just words

it's disturbing to think
of these herds of superb
students who think

that there's one way to learn
filling out bubbles
like a 649,

school is sometimes a waste of time,
i studied the stars,
so i know we can shine,

but line after line,
the meaning's hard to find,
like if i turned left instead of right

on that day and said hey instead
of struggling to find words to say
and it played out from there

that hair and that stare,
would i be standing here,
or would i be over there?

every action has its own reaction
and the fraction of moments we spend
in distraction has me thinking bout

each interaction, attraction,
a complex transaction,
to find satisfaction,

but i cant get no.
cause i dont move like jagger
all i got is a swagger

that looks more like a stagger
and a cup of that jager
SWAG



people always tell you,
stop shining,
it's not your moment

start finding,
ways to fit the moulds
that we should be used to
but we are diamonds
and we refuse to


growing up my role models
were frasier crane
and bruce wayne
loose change

was saved up to buy new games
i'd do thangs
like smash brains
with liu kang
and new slang

was one of the things
i brang
and i had the best slams
in nba jam,
then i heard onyx slam
and thought to myself damn!

one day i'll rap on stage like the golden age
and i'll make sure that that spotlight won't ever fade
i'm so sincere, earnest hemingway
electromagnetic, michael farraday
and though we've got no hits, doc halladay
dont give a %#@!, yeah you know
we $#&@ing constipate

how do you feel?
what do you expect?
db, the best bet,
and we barely even started yet,
i'm feeling like you're finally
getting the idea
if you think we're good now

give us 2 more years.


people always tell you,
stop shining,
it's not your moment
start finding,

ways to fit the moulds
that we should be used to
but we are diamonds
and we refuse to