{"id":511887,"date":"2026-06-26T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/511887\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:58:09","slug":"steve-lacy-and-sza-unveil-new-is-it-cool-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/511887\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Lacy and SZA Unveil New &#8216;Is It Cool?&#8217; Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The duo trade verses on the candid and vulnerable track<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/steve-lacy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_steve-lacy\" data-tag=\"steve-lacy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Lacy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sza\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sza\" data-tag=\"sza\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SZA<\/a> have unveiled their new collaborative single, \u201cIs It Cool?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe 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 to 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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn August 2025, Lacy spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/steve-lacy-new-album-oh-yeah-1235408259\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone<\/a> about his upcoming album, Oh Yeah?, arriving July 17 via RCA Records. The follow-up to 2022\u2019s\u00a0Gemini Rights was written, performed, and produced by Lacy, who focuses the new album on transparency and personal lyrics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\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 class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOh Yeah? will arrive four years after the release of Lacy\u2019s Grammy-winning album\u00a0Gemini Rights. He told Rolling Stone 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>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLacy 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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTo 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The duo trade verses on the candid and vulnerable track Steve Lacy and SZA have unveiled their new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,87714,18176],"class_list":["post-511887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-steve-lacy","tag-sza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}