The song sees the pair singing “from the perspective of a good boyfriend” over an electronic beat, praising men who who are fine with doing tasks in the background of their significant other without complaining or expecting praise. The video released to accompany the song shows this with Self Esteem and Moonchil Sanelly doing chores around the home, such as cleaning the bath with a toothbrush, whilst wearing big David Byrne esc suits. The video was directed by Piers Dennis who said via Instagram “Rebecca said, “We need to make the Self Esteem version of ‘I Want to Break Free’ video!” I said, “Let’s go!”” which is shown by the hoovering throughout the video.

Talking about where the ideas for the song came from, Self Esteem said that “Me and Moon wrote a song from the perspective of a good boyfriend. The ones that are just chill and secure so they just leave you to it. The ones that don’t want a medal for doing the bins. The ones that see that you’re working your tits off so they go and get yet another thing you’ve ordered and missed the delivery of from the post office. The ones that don’t take your success as a direct threat to their existence. To me this is real masculinity.”

Speaking on how the pair came to meet she adds “We have both collaborated with Johan Karlberg on our records and I’m so grateful to him for introducing us, it was a joy to make this song together.”

She added that she wanted the video “to be an inverse ‘I Want To Break Free’ – Piers Dennis executed this gorgeously cos he’s a fucking Big Man. Self Esteem 3 lez go.”

Moonchild Sanelly added that it can be hard to be in a relationship as a female singer: “We were in the studio bonding HARD, having the deepest conversation about relationships and how it’s hard to be bold, loud female artists in a relationship. How you can be the baddest bitch on any stage, but if you have an insecure man he can’t support your success as a woman. Instead of celebrating and supporting you, he sees your success as a personal attack and uses it to pull you down and make you feel bad.”

She continued saying that her and Taylor wanted to imagine what it would be like to have a supportive partner: “And we thought… what would it feel like to be ourselves, doing what we do, and have a man who properly supported all that we are.” She said they wrote the song “from the hypothetical perspective of a man who supports their partner and is happy for their woman. A man that is fully secure. A big man.”

The single, produced by grime stalwart Rude Kid, is an experimental return to form for Ghetts. The atmospheric instrumental provides a disconcertingly melodic foil for the East London emcee, and his two accomplices, to demonstrate a range of vocal talents. Like a fairground ghost-train, the track haunts and thrills in equal measure as Ghetts’ spectral wordplay, rhyme schemes and flow work in haunting harmony. Jaykae’s verse adds a certain punchy violence. He raps as if he is a poetic school bully, the type to mug a child for bus-fare before handing in an A* critique of Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 18‘.

Moonchild Sanelly’s hook makes the track truly distinctive. Her thick South African accent reflects that of compatriot, Die Antwoord’s Yolandi, and is in stark contrast to the two rapper’s heavy British dialects. She also recites a verse in Xhosa, a language native to a nation of people spread across South Africa and Zimbabwe. The result is a track which bubbles with diversity, and fuses the sound of the British Grime scene with South African Hip-Hop.

The single’s visual was released alongside the track. Artist Sahoud Khalaf half animates the musicians. Their faces obscured and their figures morphed, the trio race around a city in a world of murky blues, oranges and reds. The clip enshrouds in playful uncertainty, and compliments the track’s pace and tone. Website GrmDaily was quick to laud the visual’s ‘colour‘, ‘creativity‘ and the way in which it ‘display[s] life in a city through a range of different scenes‘.

Praise for Ghetts is common. He has been a key figure in the British Grime scene, since the release of his pioneering mix-tape ‘2000 & Life’, in 2005. He has since delighted fans with iconic tunes, such as ‘One Take’ (2015), and performed to a packed Wembley Arena with Eskimo Dance in 2017.

Initial reviews for ‘Mozambique‘ have been positive. Annie Mac made it her Hottest Record In The World, the night it was released. It’s budding popularity created because ‘Mozambique‘ haunts, entertains and intrigues in equal measure. An atmosphere of mystery surrounds the single and visual, a theme intended by Grime legend Ghetts. He simply quoted the first line of the single’s hook, ‘I don’t know bro‘, when asked for a press statement to announce the release.

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Big thanks to @anniemac for making Mozambique