With “Secrets,” the L.A.-based rapper-singer Power doesn’t just flirt with intimacy — he strips it down, smokes a blunt with it, and stares it dead in the eye. The track is raw R&B dressed in late-night lighting, the kind of song that feels like it was recorded between sheets rather than in a booth. It’s heavy on atmosphere — sparse, pulsing, heat rising — but what hits hardest is what’s not dressed up: Power’s voice. Honest, unguarded, and human.
This isn’t a record about love in the rom-com sense. It’s about the kind that demands you show your scars and stay anyway. There’s a reason he calls it “Secrets.” It’s about what we hide, and what it costs to let someone in.
Then there’s the curveball: Power’s eyes literally changed color. Mid-album grind, he’s diagnosed with Waardenburg syndrome — a rare genetic mutation that turned his eyes from brown to an eerie, almost supernatural blue. “I always knew I was a mutant alien,” he says, half-joking, but not really. Because this is a guy who’s felt different. Who’s walked both the street and the spirit path, and somehow figured out how to bring that duality into the studio.
The truth is, “Secrets” doesn’t care about streaming algorithms. It’s not trying to go viral. It just wants to be felt — and that’s what makes it hit harder than most love songs out now. It’s a sonic diary entry, steeped in sex and soul, asking the question: can you still hold me when I hand you everything I’m afraid to say?
Power doesn’t pretend to have answers. He’s just making music for people brave enough to ask the real questions out loud.
