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"The Imitation Game" is a song CONQUEST has been "itching" to drop for years. To be honest, this concept went through various iterations until it became this song we know today. And in the arc of this story, 'QUEST is back being his full artistic himself, and taking to task Christian artists who recklessly imitate their secular counterparts in musical style and aesthetic. In addition, he makes it a point to affirm one's original identity that's shaped in Christ as well.

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Keep the effects on my voice to a minimum
So the emotion is felt when I'm killing them
Virtuosity that's worthy of cinema
Verses probably unnerving to simpletons
This is Serena "Crip walking" at Wimbledon
Or Michael Jackson moonwalking for 'Thriller' then
Know this believer is often indifferent
To idle actions that's thought as magnificent. Isn't it?
Funny you find yourself interested in
The same style that you jack that's specific with sin
Yeah a critic you've been, but a mimic within
It's insane how you act with religion you spin
Everything in your text's obsessed with What's Next
Like a Drake pop hit, imitate top hits
Integrate topics and it's straight toxic
You're a cheap imitation, stop it

I need those hands in the air
If you're one of kind, not a copy
In the perfect design God got me
No L's over here I'm on a hot streak
Baby just watch me
Hands in the air
I don't imitate, yo I elevate
And I'm saved by grace when hell awaits
I'm the head not the tail, let me demonstrate

I don't need effects on my voice
I don't need to copy your style
I don't need to look at your IG
To see if I am worthwhile
I don't need effects on my voice
I don't need to copy your style
I don't need to jack you whole IP
To see that I am worthwhile

Yeah, secular & spiritual rappers sounding like
Lil Moneybag Baby & 'em
I was checking for Steppin' to the A to the M
Then later on Bun B, Jay-Z and Em
But I didn't trade me to then
Become a Two point O version of Shady again
Or any other rapper lately who trends, the faith we defend
By being the head not the tail, saved me within
No wonder why it often does escape me
Women trying to be Kylie Jenner with a face beat
Then Rihanna, self esteem dismembered in the same week
Be somebody else to feel better is how the game be
Crazy, your imitation isn't flattery
Your limitation is a travesty
When the Lord's invitation is apparently
Meant to set your apart, your sin is racing for the parody

I need those hands in the air
If you're one of kind, not a copy
In the perfect design God got me
No L's over here I'm on a hot streak
Baby just watch me
Hands in the air
I don't imitate, yo I elevate
And I'm saved by grace when hell awaits
I'm the head not the tail, let me demonstrate

I don't need effects on my voice
I don't need to copy your style
I don't need to look at your IG
To see if I am worthwhile
I don't need effects on my voice
I don't need to copy your style
I don't need to jack you whole IP
To see that I am worthwhile

Aye man, you ain't Aubrey Graham, J. Cole or Kendrick
You ain't either rapper named Baby, you get no merits
Dude, you're ripping off Pop Smoke with every effort
All in the name of the Lord, I got a question
Yeah we got questions

I don't need effects on my voice
I don't need to copy your style
I don't need to look at your IG
To see if I am worthwhile
I don't need effects on my voice
I don't need to copy your style
I don't need to jack you whole IP
To see that I am worthwhile
Yeah

credits

from A Radical Interruption: The Motion Picture, released April 28, 2023
Written & performed by Jason Andre Roberts aka CONQUEST
Produced by Roberto "Top Rank" Torres
Co-Produced by Jason Andre Roberts aka CONQUEST
Recording Engineer: Jesus San Martin at Lounge Studios NYC
Mix Engineer: Jesus San Martin at Lounge Studios NYC
Mastered by Cody Shallow

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CONQUEST New York

The 2012 album “Radical Departure” marks a new musical chapter for Brooklyn based, Trinidadian born emcee/songwriter CONQUEST as an artist & missionary musical evangelist. CONQUEST does unadulterated hip hop music that's mainly East Coast in style & influence with an alternative & soul influence that will be recognized as either ‘Christian hip hop' or 'progressive hip hop made by a Christian'. ... more

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