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Iomos Marad - “Listen”
[Emcee(s): Iomos Marad]
[Producer(s): Mozaic (AGO)]
[Sample (Melody): Deniece Williams - "It's Your Conscience"]

[Hook: Sample from Deniece Williams - "It's Your Conscience"] (x3)
Listen to me. Listen, please. It's your conscience
He don't love you, he don't care. This is nonsense, nonsense

[Verse 1: Iomos Marad]
Ayyo
Your people say they hear, but they’re never listening, and
And if they’re listening, they can’t hear what is happening, but
The soundtrack of these times has got us sleepwalking
It’s time to enter a new time of awakening, and
And these rappers tried to swag—they’re tweaking, man
No translation for the language that they’re speaking in
Reverted back to mumbling instead of speaking sense
For these current events, it’s intense, it’s
Spirit over matter to the black male oppressor
Speak of liberation for Black Lives that Matter
I breathe through the mic for my brother Eric Garner. If I
Say he’s still a slave, you just label me a hater. It’s
Real. The way that we’re living is unreal
Deaf, dumb, and blind with no use for our ears
Youth become killers. It’s the sum of all fears
When we denied the sound that enter into ears, plus
The music that we’re hearing these days is nonsense
Sinking in the sand and it lacks content, so

[Bridge 1: Sample from Deniece Williams - "It's Your Conscience"]
He don't love you, he don't care. This is nonsense, nonsense

[Hook: Sample from Deniece Williams - "It's Your Conscience" and (Iomos Marad)]
Listen to me. Listen, please. It's your conscience (You better listen and learn)
He don't love you, he don't care. This is nonsense (Nonsense), nonsense (Nonsense)
Listen to me. Listen, please. It's your conscience (You better listen to learn. Come on)
He don't love you, he don't care. This is nonsense, nonsense

[Verse 2: Iomos Marad]
Yo, what’s
Seen is never heard and what’s heard is never seen
Rap in 2015 looked like a murder scene
Death is all around us as a result of the sound like
A Roots video shoot with bodies on the ground
It’s all covered up. We call it Mike Brown, and the
Day’s getting hazed when it’s time to (“Get down!”)
From Watts to Ferguson, back to Brown again
Artists can’t break free—they’re still boxed in
Trapped in a contract, giving the cash back
And they’re still brainwashed—go hashtag that
These rappers nowadays got a God Complex
Images narcissistic and them not complex
They carry it like it’s an S on them chest. In the
Flesh, they invest, test the limits of its strength
What’s given by the Higher, they don’t bother to honor
So fear not the men because men must die
We're thrown to the ground and stand before the Most High, giving
Accounts for the words and let most by the wayside
Tried to make amends, but got trapped in your pride, and, for the
Fame and the wealth, you decided to let it ride, so

[Hook: Sample from Deniece Williams - "It's Your Conscience" and (Iomos Marad)]
Listen to me. Listen, please. It's your conscience (Listen and learn)
He don't love you, he don't care. This is nonsense (Nonsense), nonsense (Nonsense)
Listen to me. Listen, please. It's your conscience (You better listen to learn)
He don't love you, he don't care. This is nonsense, nonsense
Listen to me. Listen, please. It's your conscience
He don't love you, he don't care. This is nonsense, nonsense