There's people that just heard Prince for the first time today. “I'm always thinking about legacy, how my music's going to age, because music is always new. “I do have new anxieties,” Lacy admitted. Cole, Mac Miller and Solange a collaborator with Frank Ocean and Vampire Weekend a solo artist who drew thousands of fans to the Compton airport for the release of his debut album. A Black and Filipino teen guitar prodigy a member of the Odd Future-aligned R&B collective the Internet a producer to game-changers like Kendrick Lamar, J.
Steve Thomas Lacy-Moya has been many things over his still frighteningly young career. The fact that one song can be recognized as so many things, that’s kind of the point.” I never considered myself to be R&B or hip-hop or rock, but I am influenced by all these things. “I didn't have to conform to anything, I can just live in whatever space I want. “It's cool, right?” Lacy said as he kicked back into a leather booth before a wall of color-changing LEDs. It was the first time that a song had ruled all five charts in Billboard history, no less at the same time. The 24-year-old, Compton-raised singer-songwriter, dressed in a flowy trench coat, shoulder-length braids and imposing full-face sunglasses, had just learned that “Bad Habit," his bummed-out yet deliriously horny TikTok viral hit turned Billboard Hot 100 smash, had simultaneously topped five different hip-hop/R&B and alternative rock charts (for the record: Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot R&B Songs, Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, Hot Rock Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts.) In September, Steve Lacy sauntered into the glassy upstairs lounge at the Novo in downtown L.A.
Of his public status as a bisexual singer-songwriter, Steve Lacy says, "I don't feel brave or tough, it's just how I exist." (Kayla James / For The Times)
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