King Khazm - Superpowerz (feat. Kane Smego & Jessica Care Moore)

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🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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King Khazm - "Superpowerz (feat. Kane Smego & Jessica Care Moore)" from the 2021 album Pangea: Hip Hop Heals on MADK Productions.

King Khazm has a long history as an emcee, artist, and community organizer in Seattle's underground hip-hop scene, and with the compilation Pangea: Hip Hop Heals, he gathers 50 emcees, producers, DJs, and artists representing 17 countries to share their perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic. Today's Song of the Day features National Poetry Slam finalist Kane Smego and renowned Detroit-based poet Jessica Care Moore, with additional vocals by A. Billie Free, and production by Moppy.

King Khazm states Pangea: Hip Hop Heals "aims to spread awareness of the larger connection we share," he states on his website. "The project speaks directly to how artists from around the world are coping and banding together in unique and innovative ways to connect. The music carries themes of commonality and how we are all going through similar experiences, demonstrating resilience and optimism through music and art. The core values of Hip Hop is peace, unity, love and overcoming the negative to the positive. There is an undeniable power in storytelling and sharing experiences, and this project seeks to embrace the best in humanity."

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0:00.0	What's your super power? Tell me how you flex
0:05.2	What's your mama? Call you put that on your chest
0:21.6	Her running a crib tonight
0:24.0	Everybody I was to fight
0:27.0	Ain't nobody going in empty handed
0:31.0	So tell me, what's your super power? Tell me how you flex
0:37.0	What's your mama? Call you put that on your chest
0:42.0	What's your super power? Tell me how you flex
0:47.0	What's your mama? Call you put that on your chest
0:53.0	Look, mama had no mask and cap just mask and tape
0:56.0	To make sure that I've had the same collapse and break and act of faith
0:58.6	But don't disaster aid when that disaster rained with downpour
1:01.0	Shout out to the single mothers holding down the ground floor ground
1:04.0	Hard half of your work don't get no time card
1:07.0	I'm car standing on evations for all the unsung
1:09.0	Hurt jelly and efforts made by earthly beings
1:11.0	Never name and work your reason
1:13.0	Retrograde is urgent we invest in sains
1:15.0	Or release to everyday working people that kept us safe
1:17.0	Did evade the GDP more important than PPE
1:20.0	Not like that greedy cheese still ignoring the CDC
1:23.0	And all the villains with villains hoarding the PPP
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