Jesse James Solomon x LLUCID - The Rain (Official Video)

Some songs are born from long planning, but “The Rain” was the opposite - a moment of ease and timing.

LLUCID first sketched the beat on his iPhone in Ableton Note, a simple idea that he carried into a writing camp at Limusic Studio in the south of France. For days, he and Jesse James Solomon had been talking about working together but couldn’t find the right moment. Both artists were busy creating and collaborating in different corners of the camp. Finally, once the pressure was off and they had already laid down plenty of tracks, they sat poolside and let things happen.

LLUCID played Jesse the beat, and the spark was instant. “I liked the vibe straight away,” Jesse says. “It felt new but familiar in a weird way.”

The setting itself seeped into the track. “Being in the countryside in the south of France definitely influenced the lyrics,” Jesse explains. “In the hook I talk about having to leave the ends, my area in London, to be able to see things another way. I needed that different environment to get a new perspective.”

For LLUCID, a Berlin-based artist and producer, the song’s mood reflects its origins: “It’s wavy and reflective. Kind of dreamy and calm,” he says. That natural ease carried through the whole process. “There was no pressure at all, just us catching a vibe quickly and letting it happen.”

Jesse ties it back to something closer to home. “The Rain is a reference to the difficult times we all go through, and also London’s weather, which can be very up and down, reflecting the mood of the people.”

After the session, LLUCID took the track back to Berlin where he finished the production. The result is a song that feels both effortless and deeply intentional, a meeting point between Berlin precision and London perspective, wrapped in the laid-back atmosphere of the French countryside.