Love vs Hate Lyrics by Brand Nubian

Love vs Hate Lyrics

    [Grand Puba]
    Uhh..

    Now it's love, vs. hate
    Time for my people to eliminate
    that hate, let's love
    Because it's our people that we're thinking of

    Now they say we playa hatin cause we hate the black on black
    And the fact we can't stand when we act like that
    Self-hate killin us more than the Po-Po or crack
    I tell my peoples with the gats it ain't about all that
    We arrived on slave ships, tortured chained and whipped
    Four hundred years of bein slaves in the land of the brave
    Have we forgotten? Our ancestors forced to pick cotton
    Women raped and tortured, murdered if they caught ya
    Niggaz swung from trees like a breeze do summer leaves
    Swayin back and forth, failed attempts to make it North
    Millions of people died just so that we can survive
    So this knowledge I provide cause these facts can't be denied
    Nowadays it's new ways, sixties it was the smack
    Eighties it was the crack, nineties it be the gat
    Time to recognize how uncivilized we got
    Get wise and unify and not fall victim to the plot

    Cause it's love, vs. hate
    Time for my people to eliminate
    that hate, let's love
    Because it's our people that we're thinking of
    It's love, vs. hate
    It's time for my people to eliminate
    that hate, let's love
    Because it's our people that we thinking of

    [Lord Jamar]
    Uh, when will we make our Exodus? When will the guns
    bust the other way instead of at the brother next to us?
    That's all that they expect from us, police stand by
    Don't believe the lie that they're the ones protectin us
    Projects, to see how poverty's affectin us
    Robberies, we lust objects of high quality
    or so we think we slowly sink into the quicksand
    With no support, like a bike that doesn't have a kickstand
    We stay in court, smoke Newport's, and fail to support
    our seeds, with no thoughts for they needs
    We fought for the cheese and all it got us was a grave
    or a bid as a slave, we live in the land of the brave
    where the home isn't free, grown niggaz be
    in a zone, tryin to act out the TV
    We cracked out and greedy with a lack of respect
    It's time to come correct, it's time to come correct

    [Grand Puba]
    Cause it's love, vs. hate
    Time for my people to eliminate
    that hate, let's love
    Because it's my people that I'm thinking of
    It's love, vs. hate
    Time for my people to eliminate
    that hate, let's love
    Because it's our people that we thinking of

    [Sadat X]
    Sally, been gettin beat for years
    Husband come home high off of weed and beers
    He frustrated cause his job is low rate
    Low money, plus his wife brother act kinda funny
    My nosey neighbor always makin it her labor
    to cause controversy, I seen them out in Jersey
    The teacher say my son show aggression
    I tell her it's in our lesson, for him to know himself
    To me the greatest wealth is the best of health
    When the music stops, I'll play the role like my pops
    and his pops and so on I got a legacy to go on
    I'll watch out for my babies and I'll kill for em
    And if they wanna receive the knowledge
    then I'll build for em
    Now if it's love vs. hate, then what's your fate?
    What we showin with the money we blown?
    Shit is still chaos, ain't a damn thing sewn

    [Grand Puba]
    Cause it's love, vs. hate
    Time for my people to eliminate
    that hate, let's love
    Because it's our people that we thinking of
    It's love, vs. hate
    Time for my people to eliminate
    that hate, let's love
    Because it's our people that we thinking of

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