Muni Long is opening up about her upcoming album ‘Revenge,’ where she dives deep into the dissolution of her nine-year marriage to Raysean Hairston.
With the album just hours away from its release on August 30, the ‘Made for Me’ artist is fully immersed in her promotional efforts.
In an interview with Real 92.3 LA, the GRAMMY-winning singer spoke openly about the breakup, shedding light on a relationship that even many of her fans were unaware of.
She said:
“This whole album is like a page out of my diary. This is the first time I’m actually telling my business in the music. I always pull from real experiences.
Because I’m writing from my unique perspective. I can only talk about what I know. This is the first time I’m putting my real life in it.
It’s no secret that I’ve been married for nine years…it just didn’t work out. Like I was saying, I don’t have time for drama. I don’t have time for nonsense.
This is one of the most amazing times in my life. If you can’t celebrate that with me, I’m so sorry but I’m going to have to leave you behind. I cannot. You wake up every day mad and there’s literally nothing to be upset about. Like, we have a beautiful child, we’re good. We might owe some bills but everybody has that.
I think it takes incredible strength to realize like this was the love of my life at one point – and he probably could be really good for me if he got it together – but I’m not willing to put my life and my passion and my happiness on hold for you to catch up. Unfortunately, you might get it in a year…but I’m sorry I’m probably already over it.”
Muni Long and Raysean Hairston Relationship Timeline
In July PEOPLE did a piece about Raysean and Muni’s relationship.
Last year she said:
“We’ve been married for eight years, and I think just, like, I’ve never had intimacy before,” she shared in 2023. “And so I think everybody deserves at least once in their life to know what that feels like.”
While the Public Displays of Affection artist has said that she “never thought” she’d get married, she and Hairston exchanged vows in 2014. Apart from being her partner in life, Hairston has been a composer and producer on some of his wife’s songs.
“It’s always great to have somebody super close to you that you can bounce the music off of,” Long said of working with her husband during a 2023 appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show.
“He keeps me cool, because I’m very poetic. So sometimes it’s a little corny,” the R&B star added. “It’s great. It’s an amazing relationship that we have.”
Although it’s unclear exactly how they met, the couple did meet in L.A. The singer admittedly “hated” the dates she went on before meeting her husband.
Speaking to Vibe, Long confessed:
“I never really dated. I went on maybe five dates my whole life — and I hated all of them. [They] were terrible. Horrible. Every date I went on, I hated. Before I met my husband. I’d be like, ‘I’m bored. I’m ready to go home.’ ”
“I didn’t know if I would ever get married. I always felt like I might have to just marry a nerd or somebody who would just be happy to have me, you know? Just so that I can get somebody. Because it’s tough,” she previously told Vibe.
“People are super self-centered. It’s hard to find people who won’t be intimidated by somebody like me. And he said the same thing,” Long continued. “Neither one of us thought that we would be married, or that we would find somebody in LA.”
According to Billboard, Hairston is one of the co-founders of Long’s label, Supergiant Records. When Long and Supergiant Records entered a partnership with Def Jam Recordings in 2022, Long said in a statement that the label
“started as an idea between myself and my husband Raysean in 2019 and over the course of the next two years we would invest, hire, strategize and create. As our team grew, so did our success, and as a result of hours and hours of hard work and intense focus, this year we reaped a bountiful harvest.”
We wish them both the best.
