Overview

• Steve Lacy released “Nice Shoes” on August 15 as the lead single and “trailer” for his upcoming album Oh Yeah?.
• The Compton-born artist self-produced the track with collaborators Nightfeelings (Nick Weiss) and Matthew Castellanos, marking his first new music in three years.
• The single introduces a synth-forward, genre-blending sound that Lacy describes as adventurous in its melding of trip-hop, electronica and classic rock influences.
• Alongside the song’s launch, Lacy unveiled new artwork referencing the Kool-Aid Man, rolled out merch via wearesteve.net and teased a revamped visual identity for the album cycle.
• In a broader creative rebirth detailed in his Rolling Stone cover story, Lacy discussed his evolving approach to lyrics and publicly explored his sexual fluidity while hinting at possible new music from The Internet.