Muni Long Is Light Wrapping Her Head Around 3 Grammy Nominations: ‘The whole lot That’s Occurring Accurate Now Is Surreal’

Following her three Grammy nominations, Muni Long is feeling… successfully, she’s no longer so obvious but.

“I suspect the whole thing that’s occurring merely now is surreal,” she shared with Billboard R&B/hip-hop reporter Neena Rouhani in a brand contemporary Billboard Recordsdata video interview. “I positively beget a delayed response.”

The “Hrs & Hrs” singer is up for three Grammys, including top contemporary artist, top R&B song and top R&B performance for her breakout hit. “Staring at the Grammys nominations on YouTube, I became as soon as take care of ‘yes!’” she exclaimed. “I became as soon as take care of, ‘I ponder when it’s gonna hit me?’ And then I merely burst out crying for take care of 5 minutes.”

The 34-year-aged artist noticed tall success along with her 2021 viral hit “Hrs & Hrs,” following an already sturdy occupation as a songwriter for enormous singers including Rihanna, Ariana Grande and Chris Brown. “Hrs & Hrs” spent three weeks atop Billboard‘s Hot R&B Songs chart, while her most modern album Public Shows of Affection: The Album peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

Long moreover situation the file straight in the case of the frequent mispronunciation of her moniker, which Olivia Rodrigo pronounced as “mooney” in every single place in the Grammys nominee announcement movement. “I tend no longer to factual folks when they rep it fallacious attributable to as soon as they discover the style you absolutely relate it, they’ll by no formulation build it all every other time,” she told Billboard. “They mispronounced Beyoncé first and foremost and now everyone is aware of who she is.”

Long expressed particular pleasure for her “coveted four” top contemporary artist nomination, noting it became as soon as the one she if truth be told wanted. She says she became as soon as a dinky anxious, occupied with that everyone doesn’t take discover of the longtime songwriter to be contemporary. “In this iteration of myself as Muni Long — it’s some distance a personality, a persona that I’ve created, however it’s moreover the real me,” she said. “As a songwriter, you need to be a obvious formulation in allege to be invited benefit. You might maybe’t absorb too famous put. I spent basically the most critical 15 years of my occupation attempting to be cherished and no longer if truth be told being myself.

“To be acknowledged by my peers as regarded as one of the critical top contemporary presences,” she went on, “It became as soon as merely take care of, ‘Wow.’”

Study the fleshy video interview with Long above.