In October 2015, he released his debut studio album, The Lover/Fighter Document LP, which incorporates elements of hip hop, reggae, jazz, R&B and electro-pop.

Jonathan Whyte Potter-Mäl[1] was born on February 19, 1986, in the LaSalle borough of Montreal, Quebec, to a Canadian and half-American father and a Jamaican mother.

During and after his cancer treatment, he independently developed his knowledge on studio production and musical composition, taking on vocal training and learning to play the guitar and keyboard.

[8] Emile founded his own record label MindPeaceLove Ent., cooperating with a number of artists including singers, songwriters, producers and sound engineers.

[19] In October 2019, Emile signed a distribution deal with Jamaican record label Tuff Gong, becoming the first artist from Quebec to do so.

His vocal performance and recording style includes singing, rapping, freestyling and scatting in English, French and Jamaican Patois.

[30] Emile is concerned largely with creating contemporary popular hip hop and reggae fused with soul music that addresses social, spiritual and moral issues.

A second version of the song featuring American rapper Kendrick Lamar was later included on Emile's debut studio album The Lover/Fighter Document LP and directly addressed Villanueva and other victims of police brutality in North America, including Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell.

[32] Just eight days after the song's release online in 2015, Lamar's record label Top Dawg Entertainment demanded the track be taken down on grounds of copyright infringement.

In November 2016, he was awarded CA$8,600 plus five percent yearly interest after a Quebec court ruled that Top Dawg Entertainment had wrongfully pulled "Heaven Help Dem" off the internet.