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[ti:Love Vs. Hate]
[ar:Brand Nubian]
[al:Foundation]
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[00:00.000]Love Vs. Hate - Brand Nubian
[00:12.111]Uhh
[00:22.981]Now it's love vs hate
[00:26.231]Time for my people to eliminate
[00:32.320]That hate let's love
[00:33.560]Because it's our people that we're thinking of
[00:35.430]Now they say we playa hatin cause we hate the black on black
[00:38.500]And the fact we can't stand when we act like that
[00:40.800]Self-hate killin us more than the Po Po or crack
[00:43.050]I tell my peoples with the gats it ain't about all that
[00:45.610]We arrived on slave ships tortured chained and whipped
[00:48.350]Four hundred years of bein slaves in the land of the brave
[00:51.410]Have we forgotten Our ancestors forced to pick cotton
[00:54.340]Women raped and tortured murdered if they caught ya
[00:57.520]Niggaz swung from trees like a breeze do summer leaves
[01:00.270]Swayin back and forth failed attempts to make it North
[01:03.020]Millions of people died just so that we can survive
[01:06.010]So this knowledge I provide cause these facts can't be denied
[01:09.070]Nowadays it's new ways sixties it was the smack
[01:11.630]Eighties it was the crack nineties it be the gat
[01:14.560]Time to recognize how uncivilized we got
[01:17.370]Get wise and unify and not fall victim to the plot
[01:20.971]Cause it's love vs hate
[01:23.161]Time for my people to eliminate
[01:26.311]That hate let's love
[01:28.621]Because it's our people that we're thinking of
[01:31.561]It's love vs hate
[01:34.431]It's time for my people to eliminate
[01:37.301]That hate let's love
[01:39.981]Because it's our people that we thinking of
[01:43.491]Uh when will we make our Exodus When will the guns
[01:46.621]Bust the other way instead of at the brother next to us
[01:49.241]That's all that they expect from us police stand by
[01:52.111]Don't believe the lie that they're the ones protectin us
[01:54.981]Projects to see how poverty's affectin us
[01:57.601]Robberies we lust objects of high quality
[02:00.721]Or so we think we slowly sink into the quicksand
[02:03.211]With no support like a bike that doesn't have a kickstand
[02:06.351]We stay in court smoke Newport's and fail to support
[02:09.031]Our seeds with no thoughts for they needs
[02:11.401]We fought for the cheese and all it got us was a grave
[02:14.651]Or a bid as a slave we live in the land of the brave
[02:18.661]Where the home isn't free grown niggaz be
[02:22.091]In a zone tryin to act out the TV
[02:24.081]We cracked out and greedy with a lack of respect
[02:26.771]It's time to come correct it's time to come correct
[02:29.771]Cause it's love vs hate
[02:31.951]Time for my people to eliminate
[02:34.511]That hate let's love
[02:37.561]Because it's my people that I'm thinking of
[02:40.121]It's love vs hate
[02:43.051]Time for my people to eliminate
[02:45.741]That hate let's love
[02:48.611]Because it's our people that we thinking of
[02:52.291]Sally been gettin beat for years
[02:54.721]Husband come home high off of w**d and beers
[02:57.401]He frustrated cause his job is low rate
[03:00.151]Low money plus his wife brother act kinda funny
[03:03.461]My nosey neighbor always makin it her labor
[03:05.951]To cause controversy I seen them out in Jersey
[03:09.511]The teacher say my son show aggression
[03:11.701]I tell her it's in our lesson for him to know himself
[03:14.571]To me the greatest wealth is the best of health
[03:17.131]When the music stops I'll play the role like my pops
[03:20.181]And his pops and so on I got a legacy to go on
[03:23.241]I'll watch out for my babies and I'll kill for em
[03:25.921]And if they wanna receive the knowledge
[03:28.421]Then I'll build for em
[03:30.101]Now if it's love vs hate then what's your fate
[03:32.731]What we showin with the money we blown
[03:34.541]Sh*t is still chaos ain't a damn thing sewn
[03:37.281]Cause it's love vs hate
[03:40.211]Time for my people to eliminate
[03:42.941]That hate let's love
[03:46.181]Because it's our people that we thinking of
[03:48.681]It's love vs hate
[03:51.671]Time for my people to eliminate
[03:54.451]That hate let's love
[03:57.331]Because it's our people that we thinking of