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- Gemini Rights · 2022
- Gemini Rights · 2022
- Steve Lacy's Demo - EP · 2017
- Gemini Rights · 2022
- The Lo-Fis · 2020
- Gemini Rights · 2022
- The Lo-Fis · 2020
- Gemini Rights · 2022
- Gemini Rights · 2022
- Gemini Rights · 2022
- Gemini Rights · 2022
- Gemini Rights · 2022
- Bad Habit (Sped Up) - Single · 2022
Essential Albums
- “I want to love unconditionally now.” Read on as Steve Lacy opens up about how he made his sophomore album in this exclusive artist statement. “Someone asked me if I felt pressure to make something that people might like. I felt a disconnect, my eyes squinted as I looked up. As I thought about the question, I realised that we always force a separation between the artist (me) and audience (people). But I am not separate. I am people, I just happen to be an artist. Once I understood this, the album felt very easy and fun to make. Gemini Rights is me getting closer to what makes me a part of all things, and that is: feelings. Feelings seem like the only real things sometimes. “I write about my anger, sadness, longing, confusion, happiness, horniness, anger, happiness, confusion, fear, etc., all out of love and all laughable, too. The biggest lesson I learned at the end of this album process was how small we make love. I want to love unconditionally now. I will make love bigger, not smaller. To me, Gemini Rights is a step in the right direction. I’m excited for you to have this album as your own as it is no longer mine. Peace.” —Steve Lacy
Albums
- 2020
- 2019
Music Videos
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022
Artist Playlists
- A funk guru for the laptop-studio age.
Singles & EPs
Appears On
More To Hear
- How he cut through the “Static” and created his breakout album.
- His “individualism” can’t be copied, especially on “Bad Habit.”
- Keeping the Funk alive.
- The artist joins Zane in the studio to talk about "Mercury."
- Tove Lo talks about her song, “Bikini Porn."
- "Playground" is World Record.
- "N Side" is Added.
More To See
- 13:37
About Steve Lacy
Throughout the 2010s, Los Angeles was America’s epicentre of forward-thinking Black music across the mainstream-to-underground spectrum. There were the hip-hop heavyweights of the Top Dawg Entertainment stable, the indie-rap provocateurs of the Odd Future crew, the electronic-jazz experimentalists of the Brainfeeder family—and standing at the intersection of all these game-changing forces was Steve Lacy. Born in Compton in 1998, Lacy (né Lacy-Moya) first surfaced as the teen wunderkind guitarist-producer for Odd Future offshoot The Internet, shaping their woozy funk atmospheres with beats he created on his iPhone. After The Internet’s 2015 opus, Ego Death, earned Lacy a Grammy nomination before he’d finished high school, his lo-fi approach attracted some high-profile clientele. He went on to leave his smudged fingerprints on J. Cole’s chart-topping 4 Your Eyez Only and Kendrick Lamar’s epochal DAMN., among many others. All the while, Lacy was laying the groundwork for his own solo career, updating Prince’s psych-soul auteurism for a post-Mac DeMarco bedroom-pop age on endearingly off-the-cuff singles like “Dark Red” and “C U Girl”. (That tightrope walk between R&B swagger and outsider aesthetics carries over to his guest features for urbano star Kali Uchis, indie kingpins Vampire Weekend and avant-funk maestro Thundercat.) His reputation as a certified vibe-master well established, Lacy revealed more of himself on his 2019 full-length debut, Apollo XXI, using the epic alt-rap suite “Like me” to address his bisexuality and fear of coming out. But that sort of candour is perfectly suited to his musical m.o.—whether he’s beatmaking on his phone or opening his heart, Lacy always puts a premium on honesty and intimacy. With the release of his 2022 album, Gemini Rights, Lacy transitioned from hitmaking rookie to bona fide star, due in large part to his viral single “Bad Habit”, which dominated every corner of the internet thanks to its nostalgic, genre-averse sound. Relatable lyrics, adventurous productions and deeply felt themes of love found, lost and found again make Steve Lacy feel accessible, even as he continues his artistic ascent.
- HOMETOWN
- Compton, CA, United States
- BORN
- 23 May 1998
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul