Singer Iyah May has emerged as the new darling of the political right after her latest track, "Karmageddon," became a viral hit on social media.
Erasing any doubt about the lyrical targets, May's website describes the track as "addressing the pandemic narrative, corruption within political, pharmaceutical, and health institutions, the Israel-Palestine conflict, violence against women and the social chaos that has swept through the world in the past few years."
Her musical journey, states the site, "began as a broke medical student researching HIV in New York. A chance ride in an NYPD car to rapper Shaggy's house, where she performed a cover song and ate his hummus, marked the start of her solo career."
"To me this shows that sooo many of us have felt unseen, excluded, confused and disheartened during the last few years," she continued. "I hear you, I see you and you're not alone.