Steve lacy is gay

In Columbus, Ohio, Lacy did more than that, inviting a doppelgänger fan from the audience onstage to sing “Bad Habit.” A week earlier, in New York, Lacy shouted out kids pressed against the barricade, promising, “I don’t take any of this for granted.” It’s not lost on him that just a few years ago he was their age, spending his days idolizing Prince and scraping the internet for obscure Erykah Badu songs.

“It’s fucking dope that I get to develop these kids’ musical ears,” Lacy says.

To maintain his privacy, he’s made a pattern of warping his appearance, covering his face onstage and obscuring it on the cover of “Gemini Rights.”

“I didn’t put my face straight on the cover because I’m kind of afraid of what that’ll do,” he explains. Movie star fame is way different.”

Still, for an artist who has enjoyed (or shied away from) the limelight for almost a decade, Lacy is slowly embracing a new level of celebrity.

“I don’t crave to be super famous, but I also try not to be afraid of that,” he says.

This hadn’t stopped his introspective thought on his identity and how to vocalize it. “If you go No. 1 on Netflix, you can’t do nothing! Soon, Lacy was making beats with their producer, Matt Martians, and filling a role the band members didn’t know they needed: guitarist.

Early on, Lacy co-produced the beat to “Special Affair,” which would become the lead single for the Internet’s 2015 album “Ego Death.” “It was only right to make him a part of the band,” says Syd, the group’s lead singer.

“I never wanted anyone to call me gay before I told them I was anything, gay or whatever, you know? “It’s silly. I know what it is, but I feel so far removed from it,” says Lacy, who nabbed the first of his six Grammy noms at age 17, as the youngest member of the neo-soul band the Internet.

Even now, he doesn’t carry himself like a famous person: He’s tall and striking, with tattoos crawling up his arms, but his slender frame is rendered formless by baggy brown pants and a thrifted red Gorillaz T-shirt. “But it brought me closer to it.” 

In fact, the resulting album, “Gemini Rights,” centers on Lacy’s breakup with an ex-boyfriend.

I’m gonna throw this up here for you. And I never did,” Lacy states in his Rolling Stone interview.

What is your stance on sexual identities and celebrities? I got the Grammy. People want to hear real music, man. I’m not necessarily doing things for other people to feel good about themselves.”

Still, Lacy’s total ambivalence toward his sexuality is radical in its own way.