 We do that every day, but it's specific for today's Thursday Vibes, yes, yes. Now as you can see, there is an artist giving some type of vibe himself, and we have him in studio, which I'd introduce Kwanzaa, then we get on from there. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? I'm good. I'm not feeling any type of way that we're both wearing yellow, but that's fine. What's your name? Please address the citizens. Okay. I'm Lucid Mizani. I'm a singer, songwriter, and also a recording and performing artist. Yes. Now the term Lucid is a very interesting one. Why would you pick that as your name? It means light. It means relevant, straight to the point, and enlightened. So you're straight to the point. I'm straight to the point. You also had the meaning to have clarity, because you can have lucid moments. You say, I'm talking about lucid moments. Lucid dreams. Yes, there we go, there we go. So it was very particular how you went for that name. All right, Lucid. Tell us a little bit about yourself. And before we get into that, I want to tell you that this particular jam that we've from hearing, you have that Kamulavad. Thank you. Yeah. Is it on purpose? I wasn't chasing the Kamulavad vibe, but I feel like I have my own vibe. But you see Kamulavad there, I grew up listening to Kamulavad. Aha! So you're a fan? I'm a fan. I'm a big fan. Where did they go, though? Okay, that's beside the point. Tell me about the track we've just heard. The track I just released, it's called Painkiller, and it talks about breakups. There's a lot of breakups going on. Yeah. So like I put myself into that shoe and I made a song about heartbreak that people could relate to. Yeah. What's the worst thing about heartbreak, what do you think? The worst thing about heartbreak? Yeah. It's not moving on. Really? Yes. Okay, I get that. I get that. Kwanzaa, if you're used to doing something with someone for a period of time, it feels a little bit like you're missing something. True. Yeah. But I've also met people who feel like the worst part of breaking up is Uttambi and Niniwatu. Jumli piga picha, makat postiya, wane, kidok doko, chilling with a bae, kidok doko, hands are holding, kidok doko, bae has taken you where. And then when bae, or you guys decide to cut it off, ehem. Why do you think people break up? People grow each other, probably cheating. Do you think money has anything to do with it? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Like I see you just want to spend, spend, spend, spend, spend it. I'm not wired like that. And when money literally does not grow in trees, so it's a wrap. Ah, okay. So guys, listen, there's more than one reason why people break up, okay? Not just cheating all the time. Yes. They're not always looking for a financial state person. But mental health pay is important, okay? Walk me through, from the point you decided your name is Lucid, your artist name is Lucid, all the way till now. Walk me through that. Hmm. From the name I decided, I think I've had like other names before, before I came to Lucid. But you see. I wanted to just turn a little bit so they can see you properly. There we go. Yeah. Handsome. I've had a couple of names before I started to Lucid. Yeah, before. So like the point that I got to, that I started with Lucid, was the point that I like took music like seriously. Yeah, those other names was when I was growing, coming up to see. Tell me, tell me, tell me those other names. Oh. Nah, they just be a left. They can call me. They're kind of calling me. So I stuck with Lucid. Yeah, at first, funny thing, I had a friend who used to tell me, I don't like Lucid, but right now he's my number one fan. Yeah, number one fan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. So you finally taken the industry or the game seriously, and then what? Mm-hmm. Okay. After I chose the name Lucid, obviously, as I started investing in music seriously, investing in videos, meeting up with producers, working with producers who have been in the industry. Some of them have managed to help me to show me the directions. You see, yeah, because on this art journey, you don't have a book where you read. There's a manual. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So each artist has his or our own journey. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And that's pretty special because I don't think, first of all, finding a producer who's been in the industry for a while and is known, getting their time is not that easy. Yeah. And then not only getting their time, but also having them sprinkle some wisdom into your journey. And how did you manage that? It was a challenge at first. I started on some little studios, going to my friend's studio in the bed seat of a studio, you know, but then you keep on working from there. So when you are from there, you keep on getting better and you keep on getting opportunities. If you're good, if you keep on working hard and you're good at it, you're going to meet producers who listen to your stuff and they're like, hey, this guy has something. We must invest in this dude. We must work with this dude to make him get to the next level. So it's always been kind of that way. Yeah. There's an artist I've seen, I want to say, grow. Not that I met her at her point of, you know, the word I want to use is I maybe I probably should not, but I didn't meet her from her beeninging, or something like that. In the beeninging. I did not meet her there, but I met her somewhere in her coming up. Namalyuko Sae, she's making a lot of noise, but then come people with their own opinions. Now, you know, you can't control anyone's imagination. So apparently as soon as you put in the work, as soon as you do the consistent, consistency, then you do all the wonderful things that come with hard-working discipline. And then you finally make a name for yourself and then they come and say, ah, ohmse, what are you talking about, how do you find your own, your own doing, how do you deal with that kind of cloud. You didn't look for it, but here they are calling you out. Okay, personally, Personally, I'd say personally, the reason I started my music was not because of other people. So the other people don't influence me or whatever they say doesn't change my mind as long as I have my mind set to a certain goal. Yeah, that's important because that is something that is definitely out of your control. Yeah, so they can tell me anything, whatever I do, they just gotta take it. Do you have people in your support system who you confide in, like before you release a track, do you go and tell your best friend or your person? Because I've met an artist who told me, by the way, she says she doesn't like it and everyone else does. Like I can't go home and know she doesn't like my song. Does it feel that vulnerable to you? No, because I have, when we're recording, I have a group, like we have a team, I have a team behind me, like my producer and have some people who also, a DJ who also listens. But so those are the people like, we can't be wrong, we can't be all wrong. You know, I can just, when it's just me, I could say, ah, this song is great, but when we release it, but when you all feel it, yeah, yeah, that means it's really dope. So as long as we all feel the song and everyone feels like, yeah, this song, it's right to get released, so we release it then. How well do you take criticism? I guess you've done a really good job, but I, I've put the dog will just change this and maybe that's your favorite part of the track. How well do you take that criticism? From, I take criticism, criticism from my producers when we're recording obviously because I'm not perfect, yeah, so I, I, I don't think I take it badly. I take it as if it's correct in me, yeah. It's true because everyone has his or her own song, there's, there's gonna be some people who love that particular kind of song you released and this one you have, you're gonna have some new fans, you know, yeah, yeah, so it's always, yeah, they can't, they can't always live your songs continuously. Your whys nani am I'm really glad you've taken that to heart, and yeah, I really like it. Yeah. Okay. Hashtag is Thursday Vibes. Yes. Does it pay, does it pay all your hard work, does it, does it pay all this? Because I keep getting sad when I hear Papa John's song, I get shot here因為 1250. It's during two-thirty, I don't know, yeah, you have returns. I have returns. I don't have big returns like them, but where I am right now, it pays. Trust me, it pays.