Where's The Love - Diamond D, Talib Kweli, eLZhi

It’s customary to pop the mary

Rock canary cuts when the snitches get stitches Because they cut canaries

I’m very blunt, but with words is fierce, stuff is heavy

Thrash God, virgin ears, then I bust the cherries

Strawberry blunt, scatter coffin

Emcee steady front, I got em coffins (My nigga, where is the love?)

Step into my office, for those who don’t know

Don’t show no love and keep it secret so I won’t know

I’m so passionate, my presence make you insecure

These wack questions get flipped back on them interviewers

They like describe yourself, I’m like that’s your job

Ain’t you a scribe yourself?

These nigga’s lazy guy

We stay involved, we off the books like librarians

Then beef like vegetarians, civilized and barbarians

I vilified like a villain that’s on a

The chariot’s on fire, a freedom fighter like Harriet

If you really know me lemme know and show that you appreciate me

Cause life hasn’t been too easy lately

Was down in the dump smokin'

Sippin' on cups and crowns, goin' through these ups and downs like jump-roping

Thinkin' I shoulda listened when they suggested I learn the trade

Go to school, read a book, earn a grade I’m in pain (My nigga, where is the

love?)

Instead of dealin' with promoters that are janky

Comin' off a flight, tryna be polite, but I’m cranky

Cause they didn’t pick me up hotel far from swankey

And they full of soft stories like they bout to yank a hankey

Get the show still go on an they thank me

But fuck them, just to put it frankly

And if you really love me, lemme know I’m sick of the guessin'

I should be who y’all pick and requestin'

Imagine if you put yo heart in this and this with the park

From the start finish it would feel like they were kickin' yo chest in (fuck)

Where the love that we used to be hearin' of?

Blood on the leaves, that lead you to where we was

We both now or neva like we was comparin' drugs

The heart ain’t been the same so it ain’t no compare us

Where the love, where the stand tall next to you by any means?

I was there for heavy tell em pick the scene

And what they did to me, consider it past tense

If I gave ya my word then you don’t gotta act stiff

If they ain’t livin' the same, then cut, they livin' off

Cuz right or wrong, I showed you what I was livin' for

In the door when they was talkin' bolts and padlocks

I overcharged off of them havenots

I payed forward, the best thing that you wonder, you doin' math

My approach too nice on the beat and they call it trash

The irony or whateva should come with it

But I fell to look in the mirror and love the vision

Where the love, eh?