‘Alphabet Aerobics’: Reporter Kim Powell Uses Rap To Warm Up (VIDEO)


Kim Powell has successfully used “Alphabet Aerobics” to go from Texas TV reporter to viral video star.

Daily News reports that Powell decided to use the popular rap song by hip-hop duo Blackalicious as her prebroadcast vocal warm-up drill before going live from Odessa.

Throughout the 99-second clip, Kim Powell is able to rap the tongue-twisting lyrics to “Alphabet Aerobics” almost flawlessly.

Many people might remember Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe rapping the same complicated lyrics to “Alphabet Aerobics” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon back in October. However, Radcliffe does not come close to matching Powell’s speed or overall flow during her own filmed performance in this viral video.

To put the icing on the cake after finishing her impressive performance of the “Alphabet Aerobics,” Kim Powell pretends to toss her microphone and walk out of the camera frame.

The video titled “Kimalicious” was posted on the YouTube channel of GS Hooligan on Sunday and has been seen over 350,000 times since then.

It seems as if Powell may have been referring to the performance on Monday with a tweet on her official Twitter account.

Kim Powell is not the first news reporter to use a rap song to become a viral video star.

As previously reported by the Inquisitr, news anchor Dan Thorn became much more than just the average news reporter earlier this year when a video of him dancing on set to T.I.’ s “Where They At Doe” went viral.

The original version of “Alphabet Aerobics” was released as a track on Blackalicious’ 1999 EP, A2G. The song features Gift of Gab shredding a simplistic beat created by Cut Chemist with a basic pace that builds faster and faster as the song progresses. The concept of “Alphabet Aerobics” is that each couple consists of words that start with a specific letter of the alphabet – progressing from A to Z.

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