{"id":2478399,"date":"2026-06-27T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2478399"},"modified":"2026-06-27T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:35:19","slug":"steve-lacy-and-sza-have-commitment-issues-on-confessional-new-song-is-it-cool-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/steve-lacy-and-sza-have-commitment-issues-on-confessional-new-song-is-it-cool-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Lacy and SZA Have Commitment Issues on Confessional New Song &#8216;Is It Cool?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"auto-tag_steve-lacy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/steve-lacy\/\" data-tag=\"steve-lacy\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Lacy<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"auto-tag_sza\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sza\/\" data-tag=\"sza\" target=\"_blank\">SZA<\/a> have unveiled their new collaborative single, \u201cIs It Cool?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The candid lyrics see Lacy confessing to his self-sabotaging habits as he sings, \u201cI just cheat every now and again\/That was hard for me to admit\/\u2019Cause I really want commit.\u201d His intimate vocals weave into SZA\u2019s verse as she proposes, \u201cBeing vulnerable is exhausting, babe\/Can we get naked instead of talking, babe?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4olWlfIzbDyD53NhWyvdDJ?utm_source=generator&amp;si=31f319c971f94fee\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>In August 2025, Lacy spoke with<em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/steve-lacy-new-album-oh-yeah-1235408259\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> about his upcoming album, <em>Oh Yeah?<\/em>, arriving July 17 via RCA Records. The follow-up to 2022\u2019s\u00a0<em>Gemini Rights<\/em> was written, performed, and produced by Lacy, who focuses the new album on transparency and personal lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel safe enough and close enough to start talking about it now, and get the title out and just get the energy in the air,\u201d Lacy said of his upcoming album. \u201cI\u2019ve never worked where I kind of announce it while I\u2019m still working on it. I feel like rappers work until the last minute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh Yeah?<\/em> will arrive four years after the release of Lacy\u2019s Grammy-winning album\u00a0<em>Gemini Rights<\/em>. He told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> he began work on this next album shortly after: \u201cI just kind of got in the studio right away.\u00a0 I\u2019m always making things. It\u2019s just what I do to hang out. I just make beats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lacy previously released \u201cNice Shoes,\u201d a single that he described as a \u201ctrailer\u201d for his new record and teases new sonic territory for the musician.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To support his third studio album, Lacy will perform at a series of tour dates across Asia this summer, including headlining slots at Summer Sonic and Lalala festival.<\/p>\n<p><em>From <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/steve-lacy-sza-new-song-is-it-cool-1235584637\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone US<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Lacy and SZA have unveiled their new collaborative single, \u201cIs It Cool?\u201d The candid lyrics see Lacy confessing to his self-sabotaging habits as he sings, \u201cI just cheat every now and again\/That was hard for me to admit\/\u2019Cause I really want commit.\u201d His intimate vocals weave into SZA\u2019s verse as she proposes, \u201cBeing vulnerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1962484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[344871,377815],"class_list":["post-2478399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-steve-lacy","tag-sza"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cardi-B-Drops-Jay-Z-Sampling-Single-Imaginary-Playerz.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478400,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478399\/revisions\/2478400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}