| Love brought you in this world, baby | 
| Love is gonna take you out, | 
| Can’t you see? | 
| Love will make you stay out all night long, | 
| Away from me, | 
| Love will make you say the sweetest things, | 
| Now you’re talking crazy (gangsta) | 
| Love is a pocket watch, solid gold, | 
| Always runs a little late, | 
| Kinda cold, | 
| Love will have you stranded on the corner, | 
| In the rain, | 
| That’s what happens when the hunter’s captured | 
| By the game (gangsta) | 
| Love is a gangsta, | 
| Love is the ultimate Don, it’s a gangsta, | 
| It’s the black and white keys on a piano, | 
| And an O-G singing soul, | 
| Love is a gangsta, | 
| Love is the Valentine’s Massacre Gangsta, | 
| Have you actin' kinda shady, making lots of babies, | 
| Playing with the ladies' heads, oh | 
| Love is a Marvin Gaye, hear the call, | 
| Baby you sure love to play, «Love to ball» | 
| Love is gonna soothe the savage beast, | 
| Hear me now, | 
| Before I put you right back on your leash, | 
| 'Cause you been foul, | 
| Love is a natural, | 
| Nice and round, | 
| Foxy just like Ms. Pam Grier, | 
| Pretty and brown, | 
| Love will have you sexing all night long, | 
| 'Cause you’re the man, | 
| Now you’re laying up in the cut, | 
| With the upper hand (Gangsta) | 
| Love is a gangsta, | 
| Love is a pintstripe suit-wearing gangsta, | 
| A machine gun in a violin case, | 
| Take you here and take you there, | 
| Love is a gangsta, | 
| A bootleg liquored up gangsta, | 
| Gets no better than this, has an iron-clad fist, | 
| It’s a diamond tiara, a gangsta | 
| Love’ll make you come home early, (early), | 
| Make you stay out all night long, (all night long, gangsta), | 
| Love’ll make you do some things, (some things), | 
| Baby that you know is wrong, (know is wrong, gangsta), | 
| Love’ll have you stranded out on Crenshaw, (Crenshaw), | 
| Crying the blues there in the rain, (in the rain, gangsta), | 
| Make you forget who you are, where you going, | 
| Where you came from baby, | 
| Now you’re feeling so much pain (so much pain, gangsta), | 
| Love’ll have you crawling 'round your carpet (crawling), | 
| Searching for your rock cocaine (cocaine, gangsta), | 
| Make you forget to count your blessings (blessings), | 
| Knowing God’s love will sustain (sustain), ooh, | 
| Love is a gangsta, | 
| The ultimate Don, it’s a gangsta, | 
| Machine gun in a violin case, | 
| Take you here and take you there, | 
| Love is a gangsta, | 
| A bootleg liquored up gangsta, | 
| Have you actin kinda shady, making lot’s of babies, | 
| Playing with the ladies' heads | 
| Be careful 'bout the company that you keep, | 
| Or you might just end up loosing sleep, | 
| Paying the price that most of us will find too steep, | 
| And in the end you’re right back on the street, | 
| Love is an O-G gangsta, | 
| A diamond tiara, a gangsta, | 
| The ultimate Don, it’s a gangsta, | 
| A platinum chain, it’s a gangsta, | 
| Love is an O-G gangsta, | 
| A diamond tiara, a gangsta | 
| The ultimate Don, it’s a gangsta, | 
| A platinum chain, it’s a gangsta… |