War Against Love - Nas

Wassup, African?

Wassup, African?

Yo the Haiti, Barbados, Bahamas, Grenada

The war is against love, we under attack

Paris, Pyar, St. Thomas, DR

The war is against love, who’s busting back?

From New York to Botswana, London to Guyana

To every single African that’s on the map

Yo, to Mexico, to Cuba, Iceland to Bermuda

The war is against love, we under attack

Scientists told us how the Mayans lived

Highways are landing strips for planes to land

Before the Wright brothers planned aerodynamics

Now I am chilling 20 karats like a savage

Not embarrassed

Buy what I’m copping while I’m shopping out in Paris

Parasites try to steal the culture (True)

While chem trails and satellites hover over

Feds is watching, real niggas ask this is so (Ask this is so)

Still the 5th is loaded (5th is loaded)

For these lawyers who be ripping soldiers off in court

They don’t get em all, they just take your money and lie

Have you sitting up north (Foul)

Study the law (Word)

Get your appeal (True)

Soon you back on the street the shit’d get real (Facts)

They try to kill us off since the days of the brilliant Moors

May they ships pull up to the Sicilian shores

So I hustle more, ain’t no justice for the poor

Got me feeling like middle fingers up, fuck the law

Bust a Dutchie open, liquor pour

Chicago yo, you know Chicago y’all know

The war is against love, we under attack (Yeah)

New Orleans, New Orleans to Queens

Yo the war is against love, who’s busting back?

(Me)

To Detroit (Yeah), St. Louis (Yeah, yeah)

To every hood in all the 50 states on the map (Map)

Chocolate city, North and South Philly (Philly)

Feel me, the war is against love, we under attack

I went from, semi-bummy nigga to money nigga (Ha)

Bike nigga to car nigga

Christ nigga to Allah nigga (Alḥamdulillāh)

Then I evolved, nigga (Yeah)

No religions, my commandments are my standards (Word)

A stand up man, no clowning, no snitching

Got a bid, I’m sitting down

Do the time, call it paying taxes

Living with my actions (Word), corners to the grave

Yeah, I’m on that wave

Yeah, I fornicate with fly bitches, horny ways

Just the way I was taught, though (Uh)

Can’t tell if this is reality or just another award show?

These women be lost, so beautiful, so smart (Word)

But why can’t we be heavenly?

Don’t think, use your heart (Yo' heart)

'Cause we could be so great, pray it’s not too late

Put pride aside, coincide, I bet we both be straight

Straight to the top, side to side, twin Rolls Royces

We made choices to be devoted (Uh)

To go at those foes who come at us with upside down crosses

The war is against love, I ain’t trusting that (Trusting that, uh, uh)

The war is against love, who’s busting back?

(Me, me, me, uh)

To all the 50 states, all across the map (The whole world, too)

USA and beyond (And beyond)

The war is against love, how will you react to that?

Yeah, tell you how I’m reacting

I’m strapped and ready, go all the way

The war is against peace

The war is against love

Yeah, know that