[Intro: Diddy]
Yeah
See, I wanna get back to the love
Start love over, come on
[Chorus: Carl Thomas & Diddy]
Let's start love over, back to the way things were (Uh-huh)
Forget about them 'cause all we got is us (Come on)
We can make it, said, if we try (Yeah)
I wanna start love over, let's make it do or die (Talk to 'em)
[Verse 1: Styles P & Diddy]
When I was nine years old, I realized there was a road
At the end, I would win lots of pots of gold (Yeah)
Days when I used to have my play clothes on
I would make up my rhymes the middle of Voltron
But you learn what the earth do breaking curfew
Hit the park when it's dark, make a stand like a podium
Niggas had a box and a strip of linoleum
Some break a boogie, but those that don't (Come on)
Was usually a fighter
Rollin' E-Z Widers
Sending people to the store for a soda and a lighter
A real cool cat that would let you keep a dollar
But now things changed and it's the days of tomorrow (That's right)
The little kids is big now
They'll push your wig now
Can't send them to the store
But you can send 'em for raw
So I speak my mind (Uh-huh)
And put 'em on my vine (Yeah)
And give 'em one big push for all mankind (Come on)
[Chorus: Carl Thomas]
Let's start love over, back to the way things were
Forget about them 'cause all we got is us
We can make it, said, if we try
I wanna start love over, let's make it do or die
[Verse 2: Jadakiss & Diddy]
Uh, uh, uh, uh, ayo
People still taking rapping for a joke
A passing hope or a phrase with a rope (Yeah)
What ever happened to the Caddies, white walls and spokes?
Crates of records, turntables, plenty of folks (That's right)
Remember in the street playing, touch football, look y'all
'Til somebody get mad and then bounce with they football
Twenty-four hour block parties
Everybody on the whole block pissy off dark 'Cardí
Adults used to think I was scheming, but I was dreaming
To one day make a hot album and have 'em all fiendin'
Now every time I rhyme, I can tell that you like it (Yeah)
You nursing the tunes like the mind of a psychic (Uh-huh)
Your mind is weary, floating like a dove
Sweating and things as if you was making love
Control the crowd so they can accept it
Total concentration is the perfect method (Come on, that's right)
Let's start over
[Bridge: Diddy]
Where's the love? Somebody tell me
See, when I was growing up
Where's the love? Because we wanna know
I remember everybody had love for everybody
Where's the love? Somebody tell me
It wasn't always player hating
Where's the love? Because we wanna know
All this jealousy, all this envy
It was the love, uh-huh
[Verse 3: Sheek Louch & Diddy]
Ayo, hip-hop set out in the park, what? (Come on)
We used to do it out in the dark
All night long until the cops made us go
Or 'til somebody moms pulled the extension cord from the window (Yeah)
Lees on, thinkin' you fresh
Tryin' to impress
Shorty with the baby hair pushed down on her forehead
Ponytail swaying, she hot
Standing like she bow-legged, but she not
You remember them days? (Uh-huh)
That's when crack wasn't 'ffecting blacks like that (Yeah)
Just drink a little Ballantine Ale, little reefer
Friday night, go check out Star Child at the Fever (That's right)
Now it's all corrupt
Over rap, you might get bust
Say the wrong thing
And end up in a permanent sling (Mmm)
Went from shelltops to hollow tops (Mhm)
Used to rock the bus stop, now we Electric Slide from the cops (Yeah)
Lost some veterans in this, that ain't keeping it real
Now with God, they chill over a record deal
Always the good ones that go, never the enemies die
To this day, I wonder why they took my man B.I. (Why?)
No time to yell rhymes in the microphone
I take this more serious than just a poem
Rock party to party (Yeah), Wyo' out to Dover (Come on)
Tear it up, y'all, let's start love all over (Let's start it all over)
[Chorus: Carl Thomas & Diddy]
Let's start love over, back to the way things were
Forget about them 'cause all we got is us
We can make it, said, if we try (Come on)
I wanna start love over, let's make it do or die (Yeah, yeah)
[Outro]
Where's the love? Somebody tell me (Come on)
Where's the love? Because we wanna know
Where's the love? Somebody tell me
Where's the love? Because we wanna know
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