Diamonds from Sierra Leone is a Kanye West track released in 2005 on Late Registration, built around a sample of Shirley Bassey's Diamonds Are Forever. Its sparkling hook and confident tone made it an instant shorthand for wealth and success in hip-hop, and short clips of it later circulated widely on soundboards and in short-form video. Creators kept returning to it because the melody is instantly recognisable even in a few seconds, giving edits a polished, triumphant finish without needing any explanation.