So to be able to bridge those two-who I am and where I’m based-has made me more assured of who I am.” I don’t take for granted, but I also know that my inspiration, all my music and artistry comes from my home. I was interviewed by a rapper I listened to when I was younger, who I’d wanted to meet as a child, and then the radio station by my high school played my songs. Hearing my music is on a radio station is beautiful, but it’s not personally reaching me because I didn’t grow up here. Homesickness was getting in the way of me being content with everything that was happening professionally. “‘OMG’ reminds me of home and the music that I heard when I was young.
‘Freedom’ is me expressing how, as a young up-and-coming artist, it’s so important to know who I am and to not compromise that.” It’s important for me to highlight that sometimes the business, the money, and the hustle to put your music out there and earn a living can give you some compromises. Everybody knows the artist through their songs, but they don’t know the artist behind the music. “It’s very important to me to talk about the risk that artists take. The album is supposed to be about reassuring yourself of who you are, where you’re from, and how to navigate that, and this is such a special song to me and for the album. My sister and mum are on the song, and it’s the first time I’ve ever done a song in Bemba. It’s literally my return home, physically, but also spiritually.
“It’s the first song you hear on the album, on my journey. Mwanje Tembo, Theresa Mutale Tembo & Sunburnt Soul Choir) And it made me understand the emotions that come out of those circumstances for others-there are a lot of people from where I come from who can’t go home.” Read on to learn more about the stories behind some of her favorite tracks on The Return. I felt like I was finally home, but the people from home were like, ‘You’re not from here.’ And so it really opened me up to a part of my own life that I didn’t think existed. You haven’t been home for a while, your accent has changed.’ It put me in this funny place. People would say, ‘You know, you kind of sound different. “I was writing from that perspective until I did my shows there. “For me, I was the person who had a place to go to, a home to go to,” she says. And when she visited her home to perform for the first time, it changed her story altogether. Tembo’s debut album isn’t just an introduction to her story, it’s part of it. “Zambia is a part of my identity, and I wanted to show that story.” Her flow is as polished, exciting, and rich as the production, and her lyrics are poetic, clever, proud, and deeply, necessarily truthful. “That’s not completely getting who I am,” she tells Apple Music. Zambian-born hip-hop artist Sampa the Great (born Sampa Tembo) is based in Australia, but don’t call her an Australian rapper.
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