Brand Nubian - Love vs. Hate lyrics

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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
Niggas 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

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 niggas 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

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

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

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