SZA has spoken out about how her insecurities once briefly led her to think that Drake was sabotaging her.
That is what she shared with The Wall Street Journal on Monday (October 30). According to the “Kill Bill” singer, during the process of making her Drizzy collaboration “Slime You Out,” the vocals she wanted 6 God to use and the vocals he did use were two very different things.
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SZA explained that she initially sent Drake a demo recording of her part on the song, intending to re-record it for the finished product — but that’s not what happened. Even after she sent a second, more polished version, Drake chose to use her initial demo vocals on the final release.
“I just handed in the first draft to Drake, and he’s putting it on his album,” she said to the outlet. “I’m scared because I handed in second vocals and he didn’t use that. And now I’m like, ‘Are you trying to sabotage me?’ I know that’s not true. I literally know that’s not true, but that’s how bad I feel about my first draft. When things come from an effortless space, I almost can’t enjoy it.”
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The pair’s first official collaboration came complete with all sorts of chatter in the blogosphere, including a roasting from Charlamagne Tha God, and talk about them working together after being briefly romantically linked more than a decade prior. It was a relationship Drake revealed in 2020 in his verse on 21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s “Mr. Right Now.”
In a profile for Rolling Stone published on October 3 of this year, the 33-year-old singer clarified that she and Drake “were really young” and that “It wasn’t hot and heavy or anything. It was like youth vibes. It was so childish.”
The topic of the pair dating was all over social media when Drake first dropped the bombshell – partially due to the fact the New Jersey singer could have been underage, based on the timeline Drizzy provided in the song.
“Yeah, said she wanna fuck to some SZA, wait/ Cause I used to date SZA back in ’08/ If you cool with it, baby, she can still play,” the Toronto native rhymes.
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The TDE singer subsequently took to Twitter to confirm their past relationship, and to clarify that she was indeed an adult when it happened.
“So it was actually 2009 lol,” she wrote. “In this case a year of poetic rap license mattered. Lol I think he jus innocently rhymed 08 w wait. Anybody who really knows me and was around during this time can confirm.. it’s all love all peace.”
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She added, “I just didn’t want anybody thinking anything underage or creepy was happening. Completely innocent. Lifetimes ago.”
