You're listening to the Song of the Day podcast from listener-powered K-E-X-P. I'm Janice Hedley. And during this final week of Song of the Day,

we've been spotlighting some of the most downloaded tracks from the last 10 years of this

podcast history. We'll be launching a new podcast in this feed on Monday, April 15th, and we think

you're going to love it. Today we revisit the 2022 pick from

Samora Pinder Hughes, Masculinity featuring Emmanuel Wilkins. This was a pick from a former K-E-X-P DJ Gabriel Teldros, who was the host of Early at the time.

Samora is a Juilliard-trained musician composer artist out of New York City.

And today's featured track comes from the album Grief, which was one-third of a multimedia

piece titled The Healing Project that included a digital archive and an exhibition.

It sounds really special. Let's listen to the track now. This is Masculinity

featuring Emmanuel Wilkins from Samora Pinderhues.

Young man come down from that tower.

It isn't yet your time.

I'll tell you five years later you made it out alive.

Blank games gonna lead to that pill for real is such a thrill you might get lost in the darkness I'm sensing so much anger, wait till you put it all. You may be You made best friends with danger

It's inside your walls

Someone's catching it tonight.

You lose your pride.

You let it rain down on to show your heart.

Because you're a man, it's what you do and it don't matter what you been through.

Yeah, you're a weapon. Yeah, you're a gun. You ain't no father. You ain't no son. You might be canvas. You might be pain. Just hide that damage, it fade away.

Yeah, you're a menace.

Play out your role and loop that record and lose.

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