DEFENDER'S RAP

• How beautiful love can be
• On the streets love is hard to see
• It's a place I got to be
• Loving you is loving me
• How beautiful love can be
• On the streets love is hard to see
• Gotta reach that frequency
• Loving you is loving me
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• Verse 1
• Yeah, you know what love is
• Even found it on the ground where the thugs live
• My man had to dig deep to find his
• Couldn't sleep cause on the real he had five kids
• Live nig's, real niggas express and taste it
• At crap games, black dames and big faces
• Cases in court, fam' showing love and support
• You and your baby's mom thought that love was a sport
• As men we were taught to hold it in
• That's why we don't know how 'til we're older men
• If love is a place I'ma go again
• At least now, now I know to go within
• At times it can take ya for a spin
• Heartbreak hotel then you're home again
• I've seen love make a nigga soul pretend
• Like a story that he don't want to end
• Yo
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• Verse 2
• It's all love where we come from
• In the hood love we was told to run from
• That same hood where the guns sung
• We holla love, hoping it'd become one
• Crack got so many lives undone
• From lack of love many hide some run
• I knew this girl with a son who dreamt of acting in plays
• Demonstration with her man had her trapped in a maze
• Trying to find herself again, much of that she'd have gave
• Love can free us, to it some of us react as a slave
• Funny, we love 'em more when they're relaxed in a grave
• Wonder if a thug is raw, is he actin' afraid?
• Everybody loves sun, why do I attract shade?
• Heard of the love of money, but compassion it pays
• Talk about it with my youth so she'd understand
• What it is to be loved by a man
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• Verse 3
• Some say that I'm a dreamer cause I talk about it often
• Seen the hardest nigga soften wit' his homie in a coffin
• We walk and stand in, fall in it
• With the right companion we all in it
• Mary sang a song about it, having broad limits
• In the game of life, it's the scrimmage
• Reminiscing on letters I wrote in my small days
• A letter to the people, love always
• Yeah