SZA has, after some recent hints, made her feelings clear about a possible duo album with Kendrick Lamar: she’s all for it.
The TDE singer appeared on Sherri Shepherd’s show Sherri on Wednesday (January 8). The host praised SZA and Kendrick’s collaborations, saying they were the results of pairing “a genius with a genius.”
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“Would you and Kendrick together consider doing a joint album?” Shepherd asked.
“I would love that,” SZA replied, to audience applause.
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“I think that would be amazing,” she elaborated. “He’s such a genius, and part of his genius is him being so elusive and so mysterious. I don’t know what’s going on as much as you don’t know what’s going on. When ‘Luther’ came out, I said, okay, that’s the vocals we’re using. And same with ‘Gloria.’
“I love that… He’s a huge part of my ‘fumbling and finding’ era, because I’m just trusting all of his expertise and being thrust into these moments. He’s so good at saying yes and staying grounded, so I’m just like, ‘Teach me, Sensei, what you know.'”
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Check the segment out below, beginning at around the 4:20 mark.
SZA and Kendrick are set to hit the road soon on their Grand National Tour, which was announced last month.
The arena tour kicks off on April 19 in Minneapolis, MN and wraps up on June 18 in Landover, MD, with stops in cities such as Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Chicago along the way.
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The roadshow will also swing through Kendrick’s native Los Angeles and SZA’s birthplace of St. Louis, as well as the hometown of Kendrick’s fierce rival Drake, Toronto.
Meanwhile, SZA has been hinting at retirement.
On Saturday (January 4), the singer posted to X that she intended to take a very different direction on her next two albums, and then change jobs entirely.
“To fulfill my last 2 album requirements I think I just wanna make peaceful children’s music n get outta here,” she wrote. “Then go be a farmer n donate the produce to underserved communities.”
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The message about quitting music caught some fans by surprise because SZA’s SOS had just recently returned to the top of the Billboard 200 thanks to her Lana deluxe album.
