Koine Poetry – What’s Power (Single Review)

Today’s review features the new single What’s Power by Koine Poetry. Koine wrote the lyrics, raps the melody, and plays all the instruments on this Rap song. What’s Power, according to Koine, is “a song about power with religious undertones. Lyrically complex with nuanced messages and references.” The song is rated Explicit for the occasional F bombs.

So let’s have a listen …

The song starts off with a nice instrumental guitar and bass riff. The vocals could be louder against the mix as this song is about the lyrics. Nice voice on the rap though. I’ll have to listen again to truly get the lyrics. I really like the instrumental track underneath the vocals, but not your typical track to put under rap vocals, more of an Indie Pop type vibe here.

The vocals rhythmic timing fits nicely over the instrument track, though. The song is very well mixed and produced. I really like the background female and male vocals that come at the end of the lead vocalist’s rhymes. The song is about taking back the power. While the rhymes and vocal delivery in this song are presented very nicely, the song itself seems to lack a more complex or nuanced message.

But the song itself is very nicely produced, even if it will probably not get much radio play in its current Explicit state. Being a professional Radio DJ on commercial FM new music stations, I’d like to hear and suggest the Artist come up with a clean Radio edit version to get more radio play. Really nice track for his fans, though.

SCORE/Excellent: Koine Poetry delivers a bitchin’ sounding rap performance over a well-tailored Indie Pop styled instrumental track on which he played all the instruments. I love the modern sound of the instrumental track and really like the flow of the rap vocals and the word choices in the rhymes. Very well put together, and I’m sure this will get radio play if the Artist decides to put out a Radio Edit version. Much love, Beth

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