Ema Onigah Follows ITEM VII With New Single “THERAPY”

Six months after ITEM VII, Ema Onigah is back with “THERAPY,” a single he wrote himself and made with producer Tuzi. It came out on November 6 through gamma. Africa, the same imprint behind the EP.

ITEM VII landed on May 8 with seven songs, from “Natural Highness” to “Paradise,” and folded in “With You,” the single he put out in March. The EP was a deliberate move. “When I dropped my first EP, ‘Dust Off,’ I saw that people understood Ema Onigah more with projects,” he said in a May 2026 interview. In the same conversation he explained how he works: “Every time I’m recording a song, in my mind I’m compiling a project.” He has kept that era in front of fans since, with a live ITEM VII session on YouTube.

“THERAPY” is the first new song since. The Apple Music credits list Onigah as the sole writer and lead vocalist, with Tuzi producing, John Cello on cello and violin, Onigah Princess on background vocals, and Ewoma handling the mix and master.

In the 30-second preview, his lead sits right at the front over a quick, danceable percussion pattern, with plenty of room left around the voice. It moves faster than the title suggests. The heaviness lives in the word itself, and the beat keeps pulling the other way.

The pen has a longer history than his own catalogue shows. In that same interview he described recording “Playful Someone” at producer Ozedikus’s house, where he says he learned to record himself and build beats, and he co-wrote several songs with Tekno on Old Romance.

“THERAPY” is out now on Apple Music and Spotify.