Love Vs. Hate-Brand Nubian

[00:10.71]Uh [00:11.92] [00:22.91]Now it's love vs hate [00:25.11] [00:26.17]Time for my people to eliminate [00:28.78]That hate let's love [00:30.88] [00:31.95]Because it's our people that we're thinking of [00:34.58]Now they say we playa hating cause we hate the black on black [00:37.28]And the fact we can't stand when we act like that [00:40.06]Self hate killing us more than the po po or crack [00:42.84]I tell my peoples with the gats it ain't about all that [00:45.69]We arrived on slave ships tortured chained and whipped [00:48.82]Four hundred years of being slaves in the land of the brave [00:51.19]Have we forgotten our ancestors forced to pick cotton [00:54.62]Women raped and tortured murdered if they caught ya [00:57.68]****** swung from trees like a breeze do summer leaves [01:00.31]Swaying back and forth failed attempts to make it north [01:03.17]Millions of people died just so that we can survive [01:05.99]So this knowledge I provide cause these facts can't be denied [01:08.89]Nowadays it's new ways sixties it was the smack [01:11.80]Eighties it was the crack nineties it be the gat [01:14.74]Time to recognize how uncivilized we got [01:17.50]Get wise and unify and not fall victim to the plot [01:20.24]Cause it's love vs hate [01:22.38] [01:23.19]Time for my people to eliminate [01:25.45] [01:25.96]That hate let's love [01:28.00] [01:28.98]Because it's our people that we're thinking of [01:31.68]It's love vs hate [01:33.72] [01:34.60]It's time for my people to eliminate [01:37.35]That hate let's love [01:39.42] [01:40.32]Because it's our people that we thinking of [01:43.05]Uh when will we make our exodus when will the guns [01:46.27]Bust the other way instead of at the brother next to us [01:49.26]That's all that they expect from us police stand by [01:51.66] [01:52.17]Don't believe the lie that they're the ones protecting us [01:54.92]Projects to see how poverty's affecting us [01:57.61]Robberies we lust objects of high quality [02:00.15] [02:00.66]Or so we think we slowly sink into the quicksand [02:03.28]With no support like a bike that doesn't have a kickstand [02:06.12]We stay in court smoke Newport's and fail to support [02:09.33]Our seeds with no thoughts for they needs [02:11.86]We fought for the cheese and all it got us was a grave [02:14.62]Or a bid as a slave we live in the land of the brave [02:17.46] [02:18.10]Where the home isn't free grown ****** be [02:21.04]In a zone trying to act out the TV [02:23.31]We cracked out and greedy with a lack of respect [02:25.82]It's time to come correct it's time to come correct [02:28.69]Cause it's love vs hate [02:30.84] [02:31.81]Time for my people to eliminate [02:34.27]That hate let's love [02:36.61] [02:37.65]Because it's my people that I'm thinking of [02:40.21]It's love vs hate [02:42.33] [02:43.38]Time for my people to eliminate [02:45.92]That hate let's love [02:48.03] [02:48.80]Because it's our people that we thinking of [02:51.44] [02:52.24]Sally been getting beat for years [02:54.22] [02:54.75]Husband come home high off of **** and beers [02:56.94] [02:57.64]He frustrated cause his job is low rate [03:00.16]Low money plus his wife brother act kinda funny [03:02.86] [03:03.53]My nosey neighbor always making it her labor [03:06.03]To cause controversy I seen them out in jersey [03:08.89] [03:09.54]The teacher say my son show aggression [03:11.67]I tell her it's in our lesson for him to know himself [03:14.56]To me the greatest wealth is the best of health [03:17.31]When the music stops I'll play the role like my pops [03:20.20]And his pops and so on I got a legacy to go on [03:23.15]I'll watch out for my babies and I'll kill for 'em [03:25.60]And if they wanna receive the knowledge [03:27.39]Then I'll build for 'em [03:28.56]Now if it's love vs hate then what's your fate [03:31.41]What we showing with the money we blown [03:33.15] [03:33.90]**** is still chaos ain't a damn thing sewn [03:36.11] [03:37.24]Cause it's love vs hate [03:39.63] [03:40.35]Time for my people to eliminate [03:43.09]That hate let's love [03:45.22] [03:46.23]Because it's our people that we thinking of [03:48.78]It's love vs hate [03:51.03] [03:51.75]Time for my people to eliminate [03:54.38]That hate let's love [03:56.69] [03:57.44]Because it's our people that we thinking of