The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team. In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires their music.
In this episode of The Sunday Music Drop, Poo$ie shares the song “Words Don’t Hurt.”
Poo$ie is a New Orleans native, who relocated to Oakland after Hurricane Katrina. “The story wouldn’t be the same without both of them, you know?” he said. For him, music is an outlet. “It’s just essential to me and my everyday … it’s really the release,” he said.
“I love rap. I love it. It’s our culture,” he said. “As Black people, it feels good to have something to belong to. And so I honor it just like that.”
Poo$ie says when he first wrote the song, it was his first time feeling insecure within an intimate relationship.
“Of course words do hurt, but you can hurt yourself with words by not standing on your words and not honoring — your agreements … in interpersonal relationships,” he said.
The song is produced by OG Jarin and features Pimpin’ P and D. Marie.
Poo$ie will be performing at The New Parish in Oakland with LaRussell on Nov. 19, 2022.
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