Alt-R&B star Steve Lacy kicks off a brand new period with “Good Sneakers,” his first style of latest music in three years.
The hurried manufacturing, helmed by Lacy with contributions from Nightfeelings and Matthew Castellanos, is pushed by a vocal pattern of James Brown from Lyn Collins’ “Assume (About It).”
Lyrically, “Good Sneakers” finds Lacy tied up in lust as he contemplates the whole lot from sleeping with associates to getting turned on by the concept of holding palms with a companion.
“My dick is getting onerous once more / On the considered you and me holding palms / We’re dancing shut and all your folks, wanna see / Let’s go earlier than the celebration ends,” he sings in verse two.
Within the hook, Lacy repeats “make it cease” a number of occasions, a plea to tame not solely his lustful ideas but additionally ones like “I can’t appear to fall in love, it’s unhealthy luck.”
“Good Sneakers” is the lead single from Lacy’s upcoming album Oh Yeah? which is alleged to nonetheless be within the works, and not using a confirmed launch date.
In his September cowl story with Rolling Stone, Lacy shared how his new album will likely be extra lyrically pushed than his previous works.
“After I first began making sh–t or producing stuff with the Web, I’d at all times make the beat, make a hook, and simply give it away,” Lacy informed the publication. “That was my course of for some time, so phrases had been at all times simply type of secondary. I’m like, ‘If my beat onerous, this bass line onerous, the chords onerous, what else do we want?’ However now I’m like, ‘OK, I wish to say sh–t how I’d say sh–t.’ ”
Oh Yeah? will comply with Lacy’s 2022 album, Gemini Rights, which included his No. 1 smash hit “Dangerous Behavior.” Gemini Rights scored Lacy’s first Grammy award for Greatest Progressive R&B Album on the 2023 ceremony.
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