Emtee Shares The Message He Wants Fans To Get From His Single ‘Long Way’

Emtee Shares The Message He Wants Fans To Get From His Single ‘Long Way’. Multi award winning rapper Emtee shook the tables when he released his first independent album Logan. Fans and fellow rappers have been enjoying the 18-track album and the rapper has been stunned at the massive reception of the album.

The iThemba hitmaker featured on Apple Music’s Africa Now Radio for an interview about the album. Emtee’s single Long Way was playlisted on the show’s playlist next to other African artists. The show’s host Cuppy mentioned that she’s had the song on repeat and asked Emtee what the inspiration for the single was and what he wants people to take away from it.

Emtee mentioned that the message behind the song is about knowing that it’s okay to make mistakes, be vulnerable and that it’s okay to love and continued to elaborate on it.

“Basically the message behind the song is just to say it’s cool to be vulnerable and to love, to make certain mistakes it’s just as long as you can rectify them you know. Especially when it comes to love cause you know, especially where we from like love is hardly expressed. People also don’t wanna tap into you know the downfalls of love and I’ve come to realize that you know we’re all human and we make mistakes and loving is not a bad thing.” Emtee explained.

Cuppy thanked Emtee for his honest explanation of the song. Emtee recently celebrated the single being the biggest song on the continent. The song beat out the likes of Wizkid, Burna Boy and Sarkodie for the number one spot.

Emtee also spoke about his collaboration with Moozlie Saam Sokol’. He mentioned that he wanted to add some Kwaito flavour on the track. After the album dropped, Moozlie mentioned that Emtee was one of the people that believed in her the most.

Listen to the full interview here: https://music.apple.com/za/station/emtee/ra.1563834551