The song has 275 million plays on Spotify and yielded nearly 500,000 fan videos on TikTok, culminating in hundreds of millions of views. The fact that one song can be recognized as so many things, that’s kind of the point.”īut “Bad Habit” changed his life forever. 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.
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