Love Vs. Hate

[00:00.16] [Grand Puba]
[00:10.85] Uhh.
[00:22.95] Now it's love, vs. hate
[00:25.92] Time for my people to eliminate
[00:28.83] That hate, let's love
[00:31.15] Because it's our people that we're thinking of
[00:34.47] Now they say we playa hatin cause we hate the black on black
[00:36.76] And the fact we can't stand when we act like that
[00:39.74] Self-hate killin us more than the Po-Po or crack
[00:42.76] I tell my peoples with the gats it ain't about all that
[00:45.61] We arrived on slave ships, tortured chained and whipped
[00:48.48] Four hundred years of bein slaves in the land of the brave
[00:51.14] Have we forgotten? Our ancestors forced to pick cotton
[00:54.15] Women raped and tortured, murdered if they caught ya
[00:57.23] Niggaz swung from trees like a breeze do summer leaves
[01:00.04] Swayin back and forth, failed attempts to make it North
[01:02.85] Millions of people died just so that we can survive
[01:05.79] So this knowledge I provide cause these facts can't be denied
[01:09.03] Nowadays it's new ways, sixties it was the smack
[01:11.86] Eighties it was the crack, nineties it be the gat
[01:14.66] Time to recognize how uncivilized we got
[01:17.15] Get wise and unify and not fall victim to the plot
[01:19.86] Cause it's love, vs. hate
[01:22.83] Time for my people to eliminate
[01:25.66] That hate, let's love
[01:28.39] Because it's our people that we're thinking of
[01:31.60] It's love, vs. hate
[01:34.14] It's time for my people to eliminate
[01:37.05] That hate, let's love
[01:40.07] Because it's our people that we thinking of
[01:42.39] [Lord Jamar]
[01:42.75] Uh, when will we make our Exodus? When will the guns
[01:46.04] Bust the other way instead of at the brother next to us?
[01:48.57] That's all that they expect from us, police stand by
[01:51.48] Don't believe the lie that they're the ones protectin us
[01:54.22] Projects, to see how poverty's affectin us
[01:57.22] Robberies, we lust objects of high quality
[01:59.66] Or so we think we slowly sink into the quicksand
[02:02.86] With no support, like a bike that doesn't have a kickstand
[02:05.86] We stay in court, smoke Newport's, and fail to support
[02:08.85] Our seeds, with no thoughts for they needs
[02:11.15] We fought for the cheese and all it got us was a grave
[02:14.02] Or a bid as a slave, we live in the land of the brave
[02:17.38] Where the home isn't free, grown niggaz be
[02:20.16] In a zone, tryin to act out the TV
[02:22.85] We cracked out and greedy with a lack of respect
[02:25.35] It's time to come correct, it's time to come correct
[02:28.23] [Grand Puba]
[02:29.05] Cause it's love, vs. hate
[02:31.80] Time for my people to eliminate
[02:34.17] That hate, let's love
[02:36.94] Because it's my people that I'm thinking of
[02:40.17] It's love, vs. hate
[02:42.48] Time for my people to eliminate
[02:45.97] That hate, let's love
[02:48.53] Because it's our people that we thinking of
[02:51.15] [Sadat X]
[02:51.84] Sally, been gettin beat for years
[02:54.56] Husband come home high off of weed and beers
[02:56.85] He frustrated cause his job is low rate
[02:59.66] Low money, plus his wife brother act kinda funny
[03:02.56] My nosey neighbor always makin it her labor
[03:05.55] To cause controversy, I seen them out in Jersey
[03:08.42] The teacher say my son show aggression
[03:11.25] I tell her it's in our lesson, for him to know himself
[03:14.22] To me the greatest wealth is the best of health
[03:17.56] When the music stops, I'll play the role like my pops
[03:19.84] And his pops and so on I got a legacy to go on
[03:23.06] I'll watch out for my babies and I'll kill for em
[03:25.76] And if they wanna receive the knowledge
[03:28.04] Then I'll build for em
[03:28.87] Now if it's love vs. hate, then what's your fate?
[03:31.35] What we showin with the money we blown?
[03:33.97] Shit is still chaos, ain't a damn thing sewn
[03:36.46] [Grand Puba]
[03:37.14] Cause it's love, vs. hate
[03:38.77] Time for my people to eliminate
[03:42.82] That hate, let's love
[03:45.83] Because it's our people that we thinking of
[03:48.74] It's love, vs. hate
[03:51.53] Time for my people to eliminate
[03:54.46] That hate, let's love
[03:57.27] Because it's our people that we thinking of
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