Struggle, Strength, and Soul: Moose Biggz on His Bold New EP, Lucid Dreams

Moose Biggz’s new 5-song EP, Lucid Dreams (2024), offers a gritty, emotional journey that encourages you to keep going—but remember to enjoy yourself along the way.

“Lucid Dreams is for anyone who's had surreal moments and is trying to turn their dreams into reality,” says Biggz. “Art imitates life, and life imitates art—it’s a revolving door. Whether you’re an average worker or chasing big dreams like an NFL contract, everyone has that vivid vision of realizing their goals.”

The EP is a collection of songs that capture raw emotion, shifting between street-smart swagger, love of family, and gratitude. With influences as diverse as Nirvana, Biggie, and Texas blues, Biggz’s music is not easily categorized.

The musical diversity is apparent throughout the EP. Biggz’s deep baritone rap delivery is supported by funk bass on tracks like “Hustle Harder,” while male and female background vocals offer a sweet R&B contrast. “Tonight” presents rapid-fire vocals over a bump-and-grind beat with rave synth accents. A repeating deep and dramatic piano chord supports money-counting sound effects on the intro to “Making Them Bandz,” with a spooky keyboard reminiscent of the Fugees’ “Ready or Not.”

Biggz creates his music with a close-knit group of collaborators, including his brother and lifelong friends. Together, they shape beats and moods before Biggz adds his lyrics, covering a wide range of experiences—from the hustle of the streets to sex, triumph, family, and deep personal loss.

“My songs are autobiographical,” Biggz explains. “I capture specific moments in time, whether it’s success, pain like losing my father to COVID, or projections of where I see myself in the future, both as a person and artist.”

The fourth track, “Top of the World,” is a celebratory culmination of the EP’s various themes. The lyrics are simultaneously a reflection on overcoming adversity and a celebration of making it to the other side and looking back with pride. Over a head-bobbing beat in a major key, Biggz raps:

I done came such a long way 
It feels like I’m on top of the world 
What’s a diamond if it don’t reflect? 
What’s the point in having money shining if there’s no respect?

Biggz explains, “That song is about overcoming adversity, trusting the process, and living with the results. It’s recognizing the journey but still appreciating what you have.”

In the same track, he continues, “I know those self-destructive ways like familiar roads / Such a long way just to heal your soul.” Biggz connects this lyric to the long, often painful road many people travel just to break even. “But you have to keep going,” he says. “Trust the process and don’t fold. You’ll get a better hand eventually—just play the one you’ve got.”

The EP concludes with “Persecuted by Pain,” a thoughtful and personal track where Biggz reflects on his father's death and life’s hardships. His raw verses capture the soul of Texas blues, where music is a means to process suffering. In one line, he raps:

Watch the company you keep 
And when the shit get hot 
Keep a Bible for the Devil 
And just in case, keep you a glock.

Lucid Dreams cements Moose Biggz’s voice as one forged by struggle and faith but full of strength and ambition. It’s an authentic and complex portrait of an artist and man committed to manifesting his dreams into reality—and encouraging listeners to boldly do the same.