Dear Lil Steve, we did it. We are dropping our first album and it’s crazy to say it all started at 3 years old. Look at the community, friendships and experiences that music brought us 25 years later and look how it transformed into something bigger than music. Thank you for keeping at it and thank you for not giving up on yourself when it was easy to do so. MASTERPEACE is something that will live forever, something we will always cherish and something to be proud of for the rest of our life. I’m grateful we finally made it here and I can’t wait to see what the future holds.
MASTERPEACE is officially done and set to be released August 20th, 2024. Since Instagram now letting me post 20, I’m defff taking advantage of it lol. Here’s some of my favorite BTS moments from the album creation process, some of my biggest supporters along the way & just pure moments of me in my element doing what I love.
📸 - @kennykapturedit
#MASTERPEACE
IN GOOD TASTE out now!
BGVs, Sax on DOING ALRIGHT
BGVs on NEVER FORGET
Sax on GOOD ENOUGH
Sax on ORGANIC
BGVs, Prod on BALANCE ft. @themind
BGVs on BACK HOME ft. @rhome1of1
Sax on LEMON FRESH ft. @femdotdotcom
Grateful to be apart of this project but most importantly I’m proud of the bro @richrobbins for putting something beautiful out there in world. Go stream that thang and check us out live at @lh_schubas Sept 11th, finna go crazy.
WHUTCHA WANT VISUAL OUT NOW!
Thank y’all for the love y’all been showing for the Masterverse series. This one is hands down my favorite video we’ve done so far and extremely happy with how it turned out! The story of the song is also something I can relate to 100% in my life right now, and hopefully you can too.
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Styled: @car_sunn | Produced by: @esoterik.negro | Guitar: @_joshwuh | Director/Editor/Colorist: @3rd_king_ | 1st AD: @justmaguzzii | DP: @deezyplus | B Cam Op/1st AC/G&E: @incrediblehulk357 | BTS/HMUA: @itsme_mcghee | Writing Asstc: @richrobbins@kobgotit |Mixed/Mastered/PA: @kobgotit | Studio Space: @creativeblockatl
#TheMasterverse #foryou #newmusic #explore
ᴍᴀꜱᴛᴇʀ ꜱᴛᴇᴠᴇ | ᴄʜɪᴄᴀɢᴏ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ
“𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘰𝘺. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳.”
Since the young age of 2, Master Steve has been entrenched in the arts. Born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, Stevie grew up around a family of musicians. He began by playing the drums at the age of three, after his father bought him a first drum set (mostly so that Stevie would stop banging on the family’s pots and pans. Something he had been constantly doing since the age of 2).
In his own words; “My father was minister of music at our church. Him and his six brothers had a group called Thompson Brothers. They would sing gospel music across the East Coast of America. When the group broke up, my immediate family and I would sing gospel music as a quartet - that’s how I first learned to sing and find harmonies, play drums, and really entrench myself in music. I was my dad’s drummer and played Saxophone in our church. Contributing as a tenor in our choir was my start and initial entry into singing. I gained confidence over time and began to produce and create music in my senior year of high school. I started to produce things at my dad’s but I did not take it too seriously at the time. In college, I would make videos and art for fun and self taught myself to play the bass and piano. One day, I met an artist who asked me to sing and contribute to their project, so I said to myself ‘let me become an artist’. For the past two years, I have been taking it seriously and there have been so many opportunities and expansion in this industry and city.”
Master Steve’s debut EP drops this summer, with the first single dropping on his birthday on May 9th. You can find his funky, soulful tunes on all streaming platforms.
Thank you @alessiaglaviano@photovogue for sharing this story and uplifting our community.
Master Steve is photographed on 35mm Kodak Portra Film by yours truly with process + scan by my dear friends at Rewind Film Lab.
God bless you all! Happy Monday! x
