First I loved God, then loved my mother   Love my babies, sisters and brothers   Love my father 'cos that's my mom's partner   Love my grandmother and my grouchy assed grandfather   Love my aunties on both sides of the family   Uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews   Mess with my peoples you get stepped to   Love the mother of my children, them girls is special      Love feels good though we stuck in the hood   Love my last album, though the joint went wood   My mans and my enemies, I love them too   Love God he let me see passed 32   Plus what he gave Wu, I chance to change music   Just listen, you and I know the truth   Love is essential, to some it's detrimental   Most of you would've use the next person as a rental      Love, lift us up, take us higher   Blossom every ghetto flower   'Cos love, only love has that healing power   And we could never live without it, no      Love life, the ground we walk on   My sickness, it made me strong   My loved ones in Heaven   The ones we lost to heroin   Malcolm, Martin, and what they still for, the men had it poppin'   Love the sun when rain drops in   Cosy night with mom punk in   Love the hell and my struggle      You gotta go through Hell to come out right   Love conquers pain and the puzzle   Funny on how love could end so subtle   Was it just sex and not really love for the couple?   Love people, love the fact when there's a baby bein' born   Like "Push girl, come on"   I'm not just sayin' that 'cos BET's on   We is one, one love, each one, teach one      Love, lift us up, take us higher   Blossom every ghetto flower   'Cos love, only love has that healing power   And we could never live without it, no      Love, lift us up, take us higher   Blossom every ghetto flower   'Cos love, only love has that healing power   And we could never live without it, no      Love, lift us up, take us higher   Blossom every ghetto flower   Love, only love has that healing power   And we could never live without it, no      Love