FIRE ISLAND

group of queer best friends gather in the Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter, but when a sudden change of events jeopardizes their summer in gay paradise, their bonds as a chosen family are pushed to the limit.

NOLO: Let’s take it to the beginning of the journey, when you had a dream of being in the media space starting out as being a musician, what conversation did you have with yourself? Lution:

That is such a good question to start off with because it takes us to the essence, so media comes because of the music right. My music journey, and I don’t like calling it a career because when it’s a career it feels like a job but as a journey when I started making moves in the kingdom back in the day I was invited by a very good radio host on EBIS2 called ‘Superfly’ and she asked me to come and produce co-host her show at the time I knew nothing I was just winging it until I went to Joburg through music and while I was there I kept hearing advertisements of Boston Media House, so I just wanted it. Music really led me to different mediums.

Nolo: How was it growing up in Eswatini and did you ever see yourself in the position that you are in right now? Lution:

I will give credit to my father, brother and cousin for exposing me to rap music. By the time I went to school I had the hang of it and it really moulded the kind of person I was also because I was going through a transition of different conversations between school and home. I always had an ear for music in my upbringing and the turning point for me I would say was when I was in Nelspruit because it was a culture shock honestly. When I was there, I got exposed to a lot of Hip Hop culture and the underground rap battles, there was actually someone who said I was going to cause a psychotic revolution and that really made me pursue the music and I started releasing music from there.

Nolo: From Mzwandile Nxumalo to Lution, why do we call you that, how does it relate with your actual name? Lution:

It comes from the back story I told about the guy who said I was going to cause a psychotic revolution and it happened literally when I was trying to find a rap name and I was in that whole battle rap era and I was writing lyrics just to take MC’s out the game and he gave me this phrase then I decided to cut it from psychotic revolution to Psycho Lution and as I kept on getting into the journey of literature and just documenting while writing lyrics I realised that we can turn the whole thing into a philosophy/mantra.

I have always wanted to play a role outside of the music so to assist the music basically and I could have not done it without my mentors and of course, a team of creative people who share the same vision. It made sense for me when I came back home to start building towards that dream and my friend Tyga was very instrumental into making it happen. All these things then became an alignment from God and just connecting all of us. It’s a very dope octopus of information that allows us in the kingdom to operate in pop culture as well as the corporate space. The mentors, the partners, the team has kept it all together, the dream makes the team work.