On what date was Oh Yeah?'s lead single Nice Shoes released?

Oh Yeah?’s “Nice Shoes” was released on August 15, 2025. The song was issued as the album’s first promotional single, arriving shortly after Steve Lacy revealed the album title in an August 14 cover story.

There is an important terminology distinction behind this question. “Nice Shoes” helped introduce the project, but the album’s official lead single was “The Feeling,” released on June 5, 2026. “Is It Cool?” followed as another promotional single on June 26, 2026. Thus, the date attached to “Nice Shoes” is correct even though calling it the lead single is imprecise.

On the finished album, “Nice Shoes” appears as part of the ninth track, “Nice Shoes / In Your World.” The full track lasts 9 minutes and 3 seconds and shifts from a breakbeat-led opening into a slower funk section with a spoken-word outro. Its early release makes it easy to confuse its promotional status with the later lead-single campaign.