“Human Animals (Requiem in 16 Bars)”—mapped to its four-movement structure:
🕯️ Theme:
A lyrical requiem exposing the dehumanization of brown bodies under imperial optics, where truth is buried, justice is performative, and silence is complicity. The track reclaims narrative space through Hip-Hop as sacred resistance.
🔥 Movement Breakdown:
🎤 Verse 1 – Street Sermon
Names the hypocrisy: peace-talks under drone warfare
Cradles grief: starving children, censored truth
Calls out racialized dehumanization: “animals,” denied divinity
Frames media as complicit in moral erasure
🎤 Hook – Smoke Mirrors & Dust
Truth is hidden: not broadcast, but buried
Justice is performative: files concealed, smiles stolen
The hook acts as a cipher chant—mourning through metaphor
🎤 Verse 2 – Echoes of Amalek
Biblical weaponization: genocide cloaked in scripture
Juxtaposes empathy for dogs vs. erased infants
Echoes : systemic betrayal, lyrical resistance
Rejects silence as virtue—bars become moral testimony
🎤 Outro – Candle for the Unnamed
Names as resistance: rhyme as resurrection
Beat becomes memorial: sacred ground for the silenced
Requiem not for the dead alone—but for truth itself

The R

Eric B. & Rakim