Steve Lacy produces all his music like any 18-year-old would: On his iPhoneSteve Lacy is an 18-year-old record producer who's worked with the likes of Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole, and even netted himself a Grammy nod for producing the 2015 album Ego Death, by The Internet. A track he wrote and recorded on his iPhone even made it onto Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.
Lacy doesn't come up with his demos in a completely conventional way, reports Wired. At least, it's not conventional yet. He uses his iPhone and GarageBand to lay down tracks and come up with beats. The song he played for Kendrick Lamar ("Wasn't There") was completely recorded on his iPhone, including the vocals, because the equipment he was using at the time "kept screwing up".
Lacy uses an iRig, which he can connect directly to microphones and instruments in order to lay tracks down into GarageBand. Funnily enough, he's run into an issue with the iPhone 7's lack of a headphone jack, according to Wired, and has had to use an older, cracked iPhone.
Lacy's burgeoning fame in the hip-hop community and his r...
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Steve Lacy produces all his music like any 18-year-old would: On his iPhone
