[Grand Puba]

Uhh..

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

[Lord Jamar]

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