Listen to the Kids (feat. Justina Lee Brown)

We gotta listen up (yeah) We gotta be ready for the call (MCskill ThaPreacha) Everybody wants attention (a yo Justina, word up?) We wanna be heard No one wants to be left aside (it's what we talking about) Every child has something special (It's Stormatique on the beat) I knew a man, his name was Mr. William He had two sons and a daughter and they were triplets He really wanted his sons to be doctors And the daughter, he wanted her to be a lawyer Typical Nigerian man, he was a dreamer Always thinking 'bout society first and how to please them A selfish father, he never listened to the kids Never thought about their dreams and what they could achieve The first son, he had talent to be an actor The second was a football player, he was a master The daughter was a painter, she painted pictures with ease She was way ahead of her time, she was the perfect thing, uh Then came the time the ball player had opportunity to Sign for a football club in Chicago and so Mr. William never allowed that happen He said his son had to be a doctor, that's final He killed a dream, this is the part that I begin To tell the parents, you! Always have a rethink The kids are humans, gotta respect their feelings Gotta be their angels right, not their demons The next day, boy was found in his room Lying helpless on the floor, overdosed on a drug Mr. William lost a son, never forgave himself Now he depressed, his whole life has never been the same Listen up, listen up Listen to the kids, listen to kids, yeah, yeah, yeah Oh-oh-oh Listen up, listen up Listen to the kids, listen to kids, yeah, yeah, yeah 'Cause everybody wants attention Wants to be heard, want to feel special 'Cause everybody needs attention Wants to be heard, feel something special So I say Listen up, listen up Listen to the kids, listen to kids, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh Listen up, listen up Listen to the kids, listen to kids, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, uh, word Mrs Anna was 32 and she was pretty cool Everybody loved her attitude She had a daughter named Jane, she was 11 Jane's daddy passed away when she was 7 She got married again by the time Jane was 9 Jane had a new daddy, everything was fine Sad story, he was a pedophile Started abusing Jane and threatened her not to tell her moms But Jane couldn't keep that, she had to tell Mrs Anna never believed her own daughter, what the hell? Trust me, it's a true story Be responsible, pay attention and listen up to your kids stories They get bullied at school, they get raped They got bruises and scars and took it as their fate One day, Anna came back from work early Met her hubby doing her daughter behind the tele' She was screaming for help, struggling for her life Anna couldn't move like corpse, she was all white She grabbed the mug on the table and hit her hubby on the head Just 20 seconds of bleeding, he was dead Anna grabbed Jane, she wasn't breathing too well She was tryna say something, but shortly, she was dead Mrs Anna lost her daughter to her nonchalance She had to take her own life just to strike a balance Everybody needs attention, everybody needs attention Everybody needs attention Oh, you gotta listen to the kids, listen to the kids Listen to the future Listen up, listen up Listen to the kids, listen to kids, yeah, yeah, yeah Oh-oh-oh Listen up, listen up Listen to the kids, listen to kids, yeah, yeah, yeah 'Cause everybody wants attention Wants to be heard, want to feel special 'Cause everybody needs attention Wants to be heard, feel something special So I say Listen up, listen up Listen to the kids, listen to kids, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh Listen up, listen up Listen to the kids, listen to kids, yeah, yeah, yeah 'Cause we need a change, it's a beautiful future going on So listen to the kids, listen to the kids 'Cause they are the future, they are the future They got something special