Electro Hip-Hop Artist Aly G Releases Her New Single “Super Power”

With Brooklyn being such a hotbed of great music, it is no wonder that the city brings us electro-rapper Aly G, whose new single “Super Power” is out today. If you ever thought that women were the weaker sex, this song is about to set you straight. “Super Power” expresses womanhood as a superpower in itself. It tells personal stories of fighting off muggers and sexual assaulters with a feistiness that might be unexpected. It asserts that the ability to give birth and sustain another life is so badass that women can be as fierce as needed in any situation.

A socially conscious track that presents the female/male divide through the prism of her clever lyricism, Aly G shrewdly blends old-school rap, ’80s electro, and contemporary hip-hop. In this song, she delivers in full stealth mode via her own superpower as an artist. With her catchy yet conscious electro-rap, she exalts women’s various powers, which exhibit themselves both in expected and quite surprising ways.

Aly G is the neon hip-hop doppelganger of musician, producer, choreographer and singer-songwriter Alyson Greenfield. She spits rapid-fire rhymes with equal parts fun, feminism and fierceness, slaying the mic with quirky, clever raps about gentrification, misogyny, superpowers and ovaries.

“In flight or fight situations, you learn which way you go. When I was mugged in Chicago and in another instance, sexually assaulted on the subway in NYC, I learned I am definitely a fighter. My energy got so big that both of the guys ended up running away from me. Instead of total fear, the thoughts in my head were, ‘Get away from me. My stuff is not yours! My body is not yours! Get out of my space!’ I had heard the story of a woman who lifted a car to save her baby (which I reference in the track), and I felt that same adrenaline pumping through me, making me feel almost superhuman, in these situations.

“In the track I say, ‘Anything you can do, I can do bleeding / My body can sustain life through a feeding.’ We don’t have to be able to sprout webs from our fingers or fly through the air in order to do superhuman things, because as women we already have the power to do and face impossible things just by being who and what we are.”

This single follows Aly G’s debut single “Build It Up,” which claps back at the urban renewal trend and increasing gentrification in Brooklyn, showcasing her socially conscious NYC vibe, whip-smart vocab, sly comedic observances and rapid-fire delivery.

An Ohio native, Alyson Greenfield, started freestyling while at college in Wisconsin, the rhymes spontaneously popping into her head. With her MFA in creative writing, she moved to NYC and built up a following as a singer-songwriter. One night at a hip-hop club, a spark ignited that birthed the artist, who evolved into Aly G. Incorporating beatboxing into her performances, along with covers of her fave ’90s rap classics, she gained attention from The New Yorker and HuffPost for her innovative genre-blending and high energy performances. She has also recorded her own renditions of LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” and Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise.”

Greenfield is also one-half of POLYVOX, a duo with Joe McGinty (Psychedelic Furs), creator and curator of NYC’s famed Loser’s Lounge. Earning praise from NYC’s The Deli, Greenfield is also among the first five artists chosen to record at Converse’s Rubber Tracks studio in Brooklyn. Her compositions have been featured on Fox, Lifetime, AOL, WNYC, and numerous TV films.

As of November 29th, “Super Power” is available on fine digital platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify, and Bandcamp. Aly G is currently working on new collabs with producer Jon Blok and Grammy-nominated producer Baby Paul (Nas, J Dilla, Monie Love, Kanye West).

Aly G “Super Power” single artwork