Muni Long strikes back with her highly-anticipated album.
On Friday, August 30, the R&B singer triumphs over the hardships she's been through with her brand-new LP Revenge via Def Jam Recordings. The 14-track project is a collection of music that embraces the Florida native's journey to overcome all the mental, physical, and spiritual hardships she experienced in her lifetime.
"This album means so much to me," Muni Long tells iHeartRadio. "It's cathartic. It's like my journal. I normally don't be having people in my business because it's none of your business. You don't need to know what I'm doing. I don't want you to know what I'm doing."
"This is the first time that I'm actually using my music and using my gifts to sort of vent about what's going on in my real life," she adds.
Muni Long's sophomore album embraces her motto that the best way to seek revenge is to create your own path to success and fulfillment regardless of the circumstances. The album opens with her emotional song "Superpowers," which is an interpolation of Brian McKnight's "The Only One For Me" Elsewhere on the album, Muni Long also recruits GloRilla for "Leave My Baby Tonight" and includes her interpretation of 50 Cent's "21 Questions." Long recalls how the latter song began as a viral freestyle but later turned into a "bold move" after she added more personal lyrics to it.
"This is like my little interpretation of it — like my little flip," Long tells iHeartRadio about the song. "I added a few lyrics, made it my own. It's a classic song. If any of you know "21 Questions" by 50 Cent, it's actually a really bold move for me to try to do my own thing to it because it's such a good song. Sometimes you just don't want to mess with it. But I did my freestyle with Sway. It went viral and y'all was messing with it. So I ended up putting it on the album."
Muni Long also opens up about other tracks on the album like "Ruined Me," "The Baddest," and "Waste No Time." See what she had to say about them, and listen to Revenge on iHeartRadio now.
On "Ruined Me:"
"I wrote this song in like 15 minutes, y'all. No cap. It doesn't take me that long once I start opening myself up to the music and what does the song want to be and what does it want to say? It normally just falls out. So if it takes me any longer than that, I know it ain't going to be good. So I only took about 15 - 20 minutes to write this song and I just told my true story. So y'all wondering what's going on in my life. Listen real close to the lyrics."
On "The Baddest":
"'The Baddest' is for any of y'all out there. Y'all baddies that's dealing with somebody that don't know how to handle you. That's what this song is about. Because sometimes fellas, y'all be messing up. We be your first baddie and you don't even know what to do with us. So this song is for y'all. All my baddies out there. Make sure you play it for your ex if he did fumble you and make him real mad."
On "Waste No Time"
"If you listen to the lyrics of the song, it's just saying like, 'Man, I don't have time to be focused on anything petty. Anything that isn't making me feel loved and growing.' It's so much craziness happening in the world right now that when you surround yourself with the family that you choose, your friends, loved ones — you just don't want to be dealing with anything that isn't nourishing you and nourishing your heart and your love and your spirit. And so that's what the song is about."