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[Grand Puba]
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Uhh..
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Now it's love, vs. hate
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Time for my people to eliminate
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that hate, let's love
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Because it's our people that we're thinking of
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Now they say we playa hatin cause we hate the black on black
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And the fact we can't stand when we act like that
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Self-hate killin us more than the Po-Po or crack
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I tell my peoples with the gats it ain't about all that
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We arrived on slave ships, tortured chained and whipped
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Four hundred years of bein slaves in the land of the brave
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Have we forgotten? Our ancestors forced to pick cotton
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Women raped and tortured, murdered if they caught ya
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Niggaz swung from trees like a breeze do summer leaves
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Swayin back and forth, failed attempts to make it North
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Millions of people died just so that we can survive
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So this knowledge I provide cause these facts can't be denied
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Nowadays it's new ways, sixties it was the smack
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Eighties it was the crack, nineties it be the gat
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Time to recognize how uncivilized we got
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Get wise and unify and not fall victim to the plot
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Cause it's love, vs. hate
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Time for my people to eliminate
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that hate, let's love
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Because it's our people that we're thinking of
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It's love, vs. hate
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It's time for my people to eliminate
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that hate, let's love
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Because it's our people that we thinking of
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[Lord Jamar]
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Uh, when will we make our Exodus? When will the guns
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bust the other way instead of at the brother next to us?
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That's all that they expect from us, police stand by
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Don't believe the lie that they're the ones protectin us
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Projects, to see how poverty's affectin us
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Robberies, we lust objects of high quality
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or so we think we slowly sink into the quicksand
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With no support, like a bike that doesn't have a kickstand
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We stay in court, smoke Newport's, and fail to support
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our seeds, with no thoughts for they needs
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We fought for the cheese and all it got us was a grave
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or a bid as a slave, we live in the land of the brave
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where the home isn't free, grown niggaz be
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in a zone, tryin to act out the TV
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We cracked out and greedy with a lack of respect
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It's time to come correct, it's time to come correct
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[Grand Puba]
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Cause it's love, vs. hate
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Time for my people to eliminate
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that hate, let's love
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Because it's my people that I'm thinking of
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It's love, vs. hate
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Time for my people to eliminate
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that hate, let's love
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Because it's our people that we thinking of
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[Sadat X]
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Sally, been gettin beat for years
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Husband come home high off of weed and beers
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He frustrated cause his job is low rate
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Low money, plus his wife brother act kinda funny
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My nosey neighbor always makin it her labor
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to cause controversy, I seen them out in Jersey
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The teacher say my son show aggression
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I tell her it's in our lesson, for him to know himself
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To me the greatest wealth is the best of health
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When the music stops, I'll play the role like my pops
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and his pops and so on I got a legacy to go on
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I'll watch out for my babies and I'll kill for em
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And if they wanna receive the knowledge
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then I'll build for em
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Now if it's love vs. hate, then what's your fate?
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What we showin with the money we blown?
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Shit is still chaos, ain't a damn thing sewn
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[Grand Puba]
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Cause it's love, vs. hate
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Time for my people to eliminate
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that hate, let's love
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Because it's our people that we thinking of
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It's love, vs. hate
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Time for my people to eliminate
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that hate, let's love
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Because it's our people that we thinking of
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Love Vs. Hate
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Brand Nubian |