Love Vs. Hate Lyrics - Brand Nubian

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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 

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 

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 

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 

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 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