Help me find a hip hop song with the lyric "black diamond, white gold".

April 17, 2011 7:49 PM

Help me find a hip hop song with the lyric "black diamond, white gold".

This weekend, I was camping at Coachella with a friend, and we heard some folks near us playing a hip hop album we both really liked. It didn't occur to us to ask the people playing it what it was called 'cause we figured it would be easy to find online, but we're not having any luck!

The lyric I remember is "black diamond, white gold", and I'd describe the genre as hiphop with interesting melodic overtones and very smooth, almost swingy vocals.

Do you know this track or album?

posted by rosa to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

Not so much with the hip hop, but 100 Monkeys' Black Diamond?
posted by btfreek at 8:01 PM on April 17, 2011

Um, I mean Black Diamond.
posted by btfreek at 8:09 PM on April 17, 2011

Response by poster: Sadly, no, that's not it!
posted by rosa at 8:12 PM on April 17, 2011

On the off chance the lyric you remembered was actually slightly different (hey it happens), it could be K-OS - Black Ice. The lyric "black ice, white snow", occurs around 1:50.
posted by blind.wombat at 9:18 PM on April 17, 2011

In another case of possible misheard lyrics, Wiz Khalifa's "Black and Yellow"?
posted by mewithoutyou at 12:55 AM on April 18, 2011

No diamonds, but John Robinson - Black Gold ??

or Ludacris - Diamond in the Back?
posted by p3t3 at 5:52 AM on April 18, 2011

Could it have been "black diamonds and pearls"?

Nas feat. Lauryn Hill - If I Ruled the World has that lyric in the chorus.
posted by mireille at 5:59 AM on April 18, 2011

Response by poster: None of those, though thank you all for the new music pointers!
posted by rosa at 9:55 AM on April 18, 2011