Steven Malcolm – Redemption City

CCM: We hear in your lyrics a lot of what seems to us like you’re working around and through the idea of control, which is human nature. But, then this spiritual desire to surrender, to lay it down. Do you feel like your music, and especially your lyricism, is part of you working out your faith experience? Not just sharing with others what you’ve learned, but actually actively working out your faith experience?
SM: Absolutely. I feel like as I’m growing as an artist, I’m constantly learning. And with this being a journey—life being a journey—writing enables me to express how I’m feeling at the time. It just all comes together, ya know? I learn a lot about myself by just getting stuff out. I am quiet a lot of the time, so the music allows me to open up and to search deep, getting our there what I really want to say.

CCM: How has your current release, The Second City – Part 1, allowed you to do that?
SM: It’s been helpful in dealing with and examining my past.God has really brought me a long way and, honestly, I shouldn’t be here from a statistics standpoint.

CCM: For the eighteen-to-nineteen year-old Steven Malcolm that might be out there right now, how would you summarize your music and lyricism into one solid point?
SM: The truth will set you free. I think that’s it, man. The truth will set you free.

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