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It stars Leo DiCaprio, and it's about the diamond business in africa. I like the song on the movie written by Nas. Goes like this:

They dug me out the soil in the mines of the motherland
Now I'm misplaced, one hand to another hand
Illegal smuggling, people struggling
Wish they could just throw me back in the mud again
Yeah, guess that's how we got here
Slave trade then the diamond trade
Every child's afraid
When his mother and father get sprayed
Forced in the army, young killer birgade
Gets a new name and then they give his nose glue
Till his mind can't take what he's going through
Looking in that dirt for that ice so blue
Then the royal family, the ice goes to
And this thing has to change
Feeling half-ashamed
As I rap with my platinum chain
When you shop for a gift for me, you think about the misery?
The same way we made apartheid history
We can do the same thing to the conflict ice
But everybody wanna shine, right?

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 want the shine on 'em

My VVS glimmers on my chest
200-thou-encrusted watch on my wrist
I wonder how people starve to death
When God bless the land that lacks the harvest
The stone's are quality, but they homes are poverty
And the whole world ignores the robbery
Bought my girl pretty rocks when she's mad at me
Tear-drop shapped, uh, perfect clarity
In shock, so many are killed annually
'Cause of greed, lust, and pure vanity
Stop talking and do something about it
Every holiday season, jewelry stores crowded
Kids snatched from their homes, mutilated alive
Husbands seperated from wives, keep a Jesus piece to be fly
But back in the day there was a time when they called us shine

Pretty cool, and it exposes an issue.

Dicaprio keeps all of the hot women for him.

He's not a bad actor, I think the one I liked most was 'The beach'....tho it had a bad critic.

I think that man is very old...I've seen some oldies, and he's acting there; like one where he's an addict. He'll always have a child look hehe.

The movie is really good. In one week I watched "The Aviator" and "Blood Diamond" and I can say I'm very impressed.

As a south african, i can personally say that dicaprio's attempt at the south african accent is indeed amazing, for an american. This movie is really a go0d watch, with a go0d perf0rmance from what i otherwise c0nsider to be a mediocre actor.


P.s. Plz excuse the disjointd style of writing as i am replying from my m0bile f0ne.

If you are going to talk about a movie, please try to include the title in it somewhere..

ty Boso for clearing that up for me.



And now I will go throw up as it stars diCaprio.

I think the best movie Di Caprio acted in is 'Basketball diaries'.
It is very good, I recommend watching it. It's a bit old, but is still good.

Hmmmm ... best movie - "What's Eating Gilbert Grape". His act is amazing. When I first watched that fil I thought he really is retarded .