Emtee Express His Thoughts About The New Film Inxeba (The Wound)

Rapper Emtee has expressed how he truly feels about the new film Inxeba which showcase an initiation ceremony of a Xhosa culture where boys go to mountains to be trained to become men.

Emtee revealed that he also went through that process as a young boy and said that he feels the film is being disrespectful to the culture as it is something considered to be sacred. “Our ancestors did not walk around with video recorders and why should we do that now? It is wrong. I don’t even want to watch it. It is sacred. You can’t go around town just blabbing about the ceremony or showing it,” he said in an interview with TshisaLive.

The Roll-up hitmaker  grew up in the city, people thought he wasn’t going to survive in the mountains but he proved them wrong.”People thought I was weak and that I was soft. I had to show them I wasn’t soft. I had a point to prove. So, I went to my dad, sat him down, and told him that I wanted to go to initiation school. My relatives, grandfathers and great grandfathers had all done it and I wasn’t any different. I knew it was what I needed to do. I needed to be independent. I came out more fierce.”

He further spoke of how he feels the idea people have of the initiation school that people die is not right. “It is messed up. How do you take people into a forest without permission? No wonder people die. I hear people and they are scared of going (to initiation school) because they think they are going to die and that is not right,” he added.

He is now one of the proud men who went through that hardship to become a man that he is today. “It made me who I am today. It is the same as with my music, people think that I am a pushover but I dare anyone to cross me,” he added.