Emtee reacts to viral video: 'I talk like this cos I choose to'

Rapper Emtee is no stranger to people criticising what he does or sounds like. He recently made it clear he chooses to speak like he does.

Taking to his X timeline he defended himself after social media users said there was something wrong with him after a clip of him buying from a street vendor went viral.

“I talk like this because I choose to. I’m a travelling man. I love languages, slang and word play. I’m a musician, how do you think some [of] these hits came about!? I’m a real song writer. I’m not the best at shi* but most y’all lyrics is as*,” he wrote.

Emtee has often had to set the record straight about his lifestyle.

In a recent Instagram live video, the rapper addressed social media comments claiming he was drunk.

“I don't drink liquor mother f**ker. I don't like liquor. Get it through your thick skull. Stop telling me I'm drunk. Did you give me the drinks?” he said.

This is not the first time the Roll Up hit maker has had to explain he does not drink alcohol.

During his episode on the L-Tido Podcast, Emtee, who was drinking tea with four sugars, said he preferred marijuana.

He expanded on his 10 years of sobriety.

“One of the reasons I stopped drinking alcohol, I came to the realisation that alcohol is actually the devil himself inside the bottle. I see how people behave when they're drunk. I see what it does to people.”

On his Twitter (X) timeline, Emtee said he was proud of himself having gone without alcohol for so long. 

“10 years sober from alcohol. That thing is the devil. Stoners be down to earth like a mf.”