SZA has opened up about her past relationship with Drake, sharing that she was not at all taken by surprise when he mentioned their old relationship in a recent song.
During a conversation with Big Tigger for Audacy’s Check In series, the singer said she even got a heads up of sorts before Drake included the line: “Said she wanna fuck to some SZA, wait/’Cause I used to date SZA back in ’08” in his guest feature on 21 Savage‘s “Mr. Right Now.”
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“It wasn’t a big deal because it was something I already knew about,” SZA said. “I obviously knew that we talked to each other when I was a lot younger and when he was a lot younger. And we’re cool, we’ve always been cool. It’s never been weird, it didn’t come completely out the blue. And he let me know.
She continued: “Every time he’s ever mentioned me, it’s always been positive, he’s never said anything negative about me. I’m grateful for that. I think highly of him, and I think it’s really weird that all these years have passed and I am an artist now, and I wasn’t then. And he’s King Drake.”
What did come as a surprise, however, was the Saturday Night Live skit based around similar situations, which was part of the same episode on which SZA was featured as a musical guest.
The “Drake PSA” skit found a group of women offering compensation to any woman who has dated the Drizzy and had him “then referenced [her], the relationship, or the potential thereof in a song.”
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“In a strange way, I was like, do they know?,” said SZA, explaining that she didn’t know the skit was happening until they called the actors on stage. “But they didn’t ask me to be in it. Nobody said anything. When I saw it, I was like, this is insane.
“I feel like Drake has a Regina George quality to him where it’s like, ‘Have you or anyone you know been personally victimized?'” she added. “He’s a cool kid. And when you’re the popular kid in school, it’s entertaining. But sometimes you’re taking losses in the midst of that entertainment. And the honesty, I respect that. But I definitely laughed real hard and I was so confused.”
During her Check In, SZA also mentioned that she is in the planning stages for a tour to support her sophomore album, S.O.S., which was released on Friday (December 9).
“The tour is gonna be wild,” the TDE songstress said. “I’m taking the creative further than I’ve ever taken it before and really just trying to flesh out every idea. Every thought process.”
