--- title: "Lucky Daye and Pusha T release Mouf Say video as the New Orleans singer’s album Aloud arrives" url: https://badiyaa.com/lucky-daye-pusha-t-mouf-say-video-aloud/ published: 2026-10-19T20:46:00+01:00 modified: 2026-10-19T20:46:00+01:00 section: Entertainment publisher: Badiyaa --- # Lucky Daye and Pusha T release Mouf Say video as the New Orleans singer’s album Aloud arrives Directed by Mollie Mills, the 2-minute-57 clip arrived on the eve of the 15-track album with Leon Thomas, Muni Long and Pusha T reached streaming services on October 16. Lucky Daye released the video for “Mouf Say,” his duet with Pusha T, on his own YouTube channel late on Thursday, October 15, on the eve of his new album *Aloud* (stylized in capitals with an exclamation point), which reached streaming services on Friday. The clip runs 2 minutes 57 seconds and is directed by Mollie Mills, and by Monday it had passed 107,000 views. The New Orleans-born singer has spent the fall building toward this record in public. “Nowhere Fast,” produced by D’Mile, was his first release since joining Warner Records; “Fly U Out,” with fellow Grammy winner Leon Thomas, followed in August; “Talk To Me” got its own video two weeks before release day. The finished album runs 15 tracks, with guest turns from Thomas, Pusha T, Muni Long, The Paradox and Akeem Ali. ## Why the title matters to him The name is a pun he takes seriously. In his label’s announcement, he set “allowed” against “aloud,” arguing that artists should not wait for permission from the industry, their peers or themselves before taking risks. “I used to think I wasn’t allowed to do what I wanted,” he said. “Now I’m screaming.” He has also said the album grew out of an unplanned sabbatical in Brazil. That framing makes more sense once his track record is laid out. His run so far looks like this: - 2019: debut album *Painted*, which earned four Grammy nominations, including Best R&B Album - 2021: the duets EP *Table for Two*, winner of Best Progressive R&B Album - 2022: second album *Candydrip* - 2024: *Algorithm*, whose lead single “That’s You” won Best Traditional R&B Performance at the 2025 ceremony - 2026: *Aloud*, his first project for Warner That is five projects in seven years and 13 Grammy nominations across his own records and songwriting for others. An artist with that résumé does not need permission from anyone, which is exactly why the title reads as a note to himself rather than a complaint about the business. Pairing him with Pusha T is the album’s biggest swing. On record, the rapper opens “Mouf Say” over a slow, old-school beat with saxophone in front, before Lucky Daye comes in. Early reviews singled the song out as the album’s jazziest moment, and it is the one track here that puts a rapper, not a singer, on equal footing with him. ## What the video does, and what it skips The clip is built on restraint. Mills shoots almost everything in a washed-out gray-green palette inside a bare space walled with corrugated metal, so the frame looks closer to a gallery installation than a club. In the stills we sampled, a horse stands in the middle of that empty room while a woman lies across its back, then later sits upright on it as a lone figure watches in silhouette. Elsewhere two dancers walk down a dim corridor, and the cut closes in on a tight portrait of a woman’s face. The credits explain the physicality. There are two bull riders, Asia Davis and Kalani Cook, three dancers, Hanna Dessie, Celine Berthaud and NaTori Aliyah, and a movement coach, Mary Beck. Ayinde Anderson handled the cinematography, Nick O’Neill edited, and Ryan Urzi did the color, which is what gives the clip its cold, chalky finish. The strengths are real. The slow camera matches the song’s tempo, the muted color suits a track built on saxophone and space, and nothing is there just to look expensive. A clip that trusts stillness this much is a rarer thing than it should be. The weakness is the flip side of that discipline. “Mouf Say” is a duet, but the video is mostly about mood and bodies rather than the two men who made the record, and viewers hoping for a strong visual pairing of a New Orleans R&B singer and one of rap’s most recognizable voices get atmosphere instead. At under three minutes, it also ends before it builds to anything a viewer could call a story. The album is streaming now, with official visualizers already posted for “Margarita Lime” and “Last Resort” on the same channel. ## Further reading - [Wikipedia: Lucky Daye](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Daye) *Image: Danielle G. Campbell, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons* *This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. [How we work](https://badiyaa.com/editorial-policy/).*