1. Sherri wrote:

Thanks for the article. Loving hard is something that’s happened for ages, and will always happen. I’ve loved hard, got hurt, pulled out my firstaid kit, and kept going. True love is a matter of the heart, and yes it can hurt when it’s taken for granted. But, life happens and what we make of it proves who we really are.

Thanks.

2. Naomi Christine wrote:

I needed this today

3. ChgoSista wrote:

Help me out–I’m having a brain freeze–what song??

4. Naomi Christine wrote:

Ex-Factor

5. MrDeeTroit wrote:

I don’t care about the song, them there lyrics are POWERFUL!!! Sheesh.

6. ChgoSista wrote:

That’s not “Ex-Factor.”

7. Naomi Christine wrote:

whoops. it’s Manifest

8. Gabriel Bryant wrote:

Manifest, The Score LP

9. ChgoSista wrote:

And to think, the word “manifest” in ALL CAPS jumped right past me.

I have “The Score” but never really listened to it all the way. I will listen to it 2nite.

10. shani wrote:

Wasn’t this the duet with Mary? It’s sad when talent like this is stifled because I could really use another major lyricist in my rotation.

11. timaree wrote:

ditto Mr. DeeTroit

12. Tanya wrote:

Love is something else!

13. Eve's Bayou wrote:

I used to put this song on repeat just because of this particular verse! I was only 16 but I felt her pain. What a waste of talent

14. ChgoSista wrote:

I ain’t neva been in love on THIS HERE level. Wow–a thought: MAYBE it wasn’t really love then after all, huh…

15. tryna understand wrote:

Makes me think of Mary’s “What Love Is”:

And it feels like joy, and it feels like pain.
And it feels like sunshine, feels like rain.
An excuse for dying, reason to live.
And if you don’t know that’s what love is…
Love is… oh

Love truly is something else…

16. mzdredlk wrote:

yes this was during the score album. I wish she would put out ex factor 2008 so we can know what the hell is going on wit her. Im concerned for Lauryn Hill….

17. mzdredlk wrote:

I mean MANIFEST 2008…lol

18. Blaxx wrote:

I wish Marc posted more than just this today.

19. swayyde wrote:

When love kicks in…. *sigh*

20. Marc Lamont Hill wrote:

love sucks…

21. Tanya wrote:

Damn Marc, you want to talk about it?

22. wouldn't you love to know? wrote:

i’m in LOVE with lauryn hill. does that make me a lesbian???
if it does, shoot i’ll be that…kisses to Ms. Hill…MUAH!!!!!!

23. swayyde wrote:

okay…
Love doesn’t suck; but taking advantage of it, taking it for granted, it’s what we do with it that sucks… True love is infinite in it’s blessing, generous and real, it is we who are not. We, who by and large, fail to live up to our own expectations concerning Love…

24. wouldn't you love to know? wrote:

so in other words swayyde, assholes sucked the beauty out of love…

agreed…

25. Tanya wrote:

Swayyde,

Perfectly put my friend, perfectly put!

26. swayyde wrote:

LMAO yep wyltk, agreed!
*damn the assholes and springtime too!!* :p
really though, it aches when u lose it, for whatever reason… but deep down I think optimism & faith in Love is what replenishes it when all else fails..
…at least I gotta keep tellin myself that or I might have to go jump out my (ground floor) window!
*see faith keeps me from jumpin from any higher… *

27. vale wrote:

“…love is a journey starting from different sides…And each day I wake, with each step I take, I see your face, I fall into place…”

a few lines from Djavan’s ‘Puzzle Of Hearts’ song

28. swayyde wrote:

that’s beautiful

29. MrDeeTroit wrote:

Ok Swayyde, love doesn’t suck, just the people that I gave it to do. F*ck all of ‘em! (shyt, i already have. maybe there lies the problem…)

30. ChgoSista wrote:

Hmmmmm…

31. swayyde wrote:

I think Love is one of those things that works in the most mysterious ways because of the degrees and types of love you experience in a lifetime. It’s one of those things that you have to be able to recognize,seize & keep when you’ve got it, and it’s also one of those things that you have to be ready and able to give in turn. Success in love is no easy feat.

32. natural nubian wrote:

to sum it up (b/c i wanted 2 comment but took a MUCH needed vaca day from the office yesterday):

LOVE: benefiting of others at the expense of self
LUST: benefiting self at the expense of others