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How a Car Crash Fueled Steve Lacy’s Huge Success · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Steve Lacy has had
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Speaker 1: a lot of success and a lot before he was
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Speaker 1: even out of high school, largely thanks to his writing
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Speaker 1: plus producing, getting nominated for a Grammy at seventeen, but
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Speaker 1: none of that comes close to what he's accomplished in
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Speaker 1: two with Bad Habit, reigning as one of the year's
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Speaker 1: most successful songs, and none of his most recent accomplishments
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Speaker 1: might have been possible if not for an incredibly unlikely
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Speaker 1: source of inspiration, a major car accident in twenty that
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Speaker 1: made him re examine his life. He tells Variety, it
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Speaker 1: was a wake up call in some ways. The message
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Speaker 1: was stopped playing. It gave me a second to take
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Speaker 1: a step back and observe everything. And I look at
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Speaker 1: all these things and came to a realization, I'm running
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Speaker 1: away from my own divinity by just playing around with
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Speaker 1: music and not taking it seriously enough. My head was
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Speaker 1: at the ceiling and I wanted to fly. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know how to process success at a young age, but
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Speaker 1: after the accident, it gave me a chance to move
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Speaker 1: forward and move forward. He certainly did, all the way
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Speaker 1: to number one on American Top forty that habits out now,
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Speaker 1: that's direct from Hollywood.