The Inglewood-raised singer, songwriter and producer Son Kuma joins forces with Clarissa Carter for the slow-burning R&B cut “Power,” a track that feels intimate from the first few bars yet carries a quiet charge beneath the surface.
Lifted from Kuma’s upcoming album Keep That Energy, the single serves as the final piece in a sequence that turns labor into longing. His recent EP Are We Working Enough? wrestled with overwork and emotional absence. Here, he flips the formula. Work divided by time may equal power, but in this context, power is not hustle. It is intimacy.
The self-produced record opens with silky synths and a restrained low-end hum, like neon lights reflecting off wet pavement. Kuma delivers his verses in a measured, conversational cadence, reflective rather than performative, as if someone thinking aloud.
Carter enters with a glossy yet haunting tone that sharpens the atmosphere and adds cinematic depth to it. Known for blending electronic soul and dark pop with emotionally unfiltered lyricism, she anchors the hook as they repeat the mantra “P*ssy is Power.” The phrase lands less as provocation and more as reclamation, reframing desire as an assertion of feminine strength rather than a distraction.
Kuma underscores the shift with the line, “Spend it on you now, while I’m not around / I’ve been working overtime and afterhours ’cus p*ssy got that power.” It reads as a moment of clarity, a workaholic confronting the cost of ambition without presence.
For Son Kuma, a Stanford-trained physicist who once channeled heartbreak into his 15-million-stream breakout Indica, this evolution feels natural rather than abrupt. Carter, meanwhile, brings the atmospheric depth she refined on Spotlight and on stages alongside Summer Walker, Wiz Khalifa, and T-Pain.
“Power” lands as more than a late-night R&B groove. It marks a turning point, the kind you hear instantly, where desire stops being a distraction and starts sounding like purpose. Tune in now!
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