![]() ![]() ![]() “He was getting introduced to old soul artists and things that he hadn’t necessarily heard before, but he was already playing in that ilk without references.” Meanwhile, Lacy was producing studio-quality songs at home with little more than a guitar rigged to his smartphone. “He was just messing around and having fun like a 16-year-old kid would, but he also had an ear and a sensibility about him that was incredibly advanced,” Airaudi says. (The album also earned him his first Grammy nomination, for co-production, at 17 he attended the ceremony with his bandmates, then went to high school the next morning as usual.)ĭavid Airaudi, a former head of strategy at Interscope who went on to manage Odd Future, The Internet and Lacy, remembers the lattermost’s early days in the studio. Those sessions resulted in the band’s best album yet, 2015’s Ego Death, and landed Lacy a permanent spot as guitarist. ![]() Born and raised in Compton, Calif., he honed his skills through Guitar Hero and his high school jazz band, where a friend recruited him to sit in on sessions with The Internet, the retro-futuristic R&B group fronted by former Odd Future member Syd. Since his teenage years, Lacy has been establishing himself as a quiet creative force - the kind of artist that may not be recognized on the street, but who the biggest names in the industry point to as the real deal. ![]()
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