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Gemini Rights

Gemini Rights is the second and major-label debut studio album by American musician Steve Lacy. It was released on July 15, 2022, by RCA Records. It follows Lacy's debut album Apollo XXI (2019), and was preceded by the singles "Mercury",[5] "Bad Habit"[6] and "Sunshine".[7] "Bad Habit" became Lacy's debut entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and later became his first number one single.

Gemini Rights

July 15, 2022 (2022-07-15)

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The album includes guest appearances from Fousheé, and Lacy's Internet bandmate, keyboardist Matt Martians. Incorporating a variety of genres, the album has been described as an amalgamation of indie rock and alternative R&B, with elements of funk, jazz, and psychedelia.


Gemini Rights received positive reception from music critics upon its release. The album reached the top ten of the Billboard 200 chart, and topped the Top Rock Albums chart. The album won Best Progressive R&B Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards.[8]

Background[edit]

Lacy produced "about 90% of the record" and came up with the title while "tipsy" at a bar, also telling Zane Lowe that he wanted Gemini Rights to be concise so listeners could "make a decision to want to keep playing it again".[9] Lacy shared that the album is a collective story of him “coming into [himself] after a breakup.” He hoped the album is left to be interpreted by people “[however] they want to.” Gemini Rights is an album that amplifies the artist’s “majestic mystique” discography, leading Lacy to hit #1 on Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks straight, months following the summer release date in 2022.[10] Gemini Rights is an album that Lacy hopes “will make people feel more unconditional love for one another.”[11]

– vocals (all tracks), bass (3, 5), guitar (3)

Steve Lacy

Ely Rise – keyboards (1), piano (2), synthesizer (3, 4)

Asia Lacy – background vocals (2, 8, 10)

Vage Webb – background vocals (2, 8, 10)

Valerie Lacy – background vocals (2, 8, 10)

Valyn Spottsville – background vocals (2, 8, 10)

– horn (3)

Crystal Torres

– organ (3), synthesizer (5–10)

John Carroll Kirby

– drums (9)

Karriem Riggins

Denise Stoudmire – background vocals (10)

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