SZA has been killing the game this year so far! The R&B star’s SOS spent 10 weeks as the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart! Even with all the success she has accomplished, she admits that sometimes she’s still a little insecure. In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, she spoke about those insecurities that made her feel like Drake attempted to “sabotage” when they collaborated on the song ‘Slime You Out.’
During the conversation, she revealed that she sent Drake the first draft of vocals but also planned to send a more polished set of vocals for him to use but the rapper went with the first draft that she sent.
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“I just handed in the first draft to Drake, and he’s putting it on his album,” she said. “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.”
Were not sure what Drake’s intentions were when he chose the first version she sent but as we previously reported, SZA and Drake used to date back in the day and the singer recently spoke about what that was like in a interview with Rolling Stone. As we all know the internet was shocked when Drake revealed that he used to date the R&B singer back in the day. He shared the information through a song with 21 Savage that was titled, “Mr. Right Now.” In the song, Drake said they dated back in 08 and in this new interview Sza does confirm that she was really young at the time. “It wasn’t hot and heavy or anything. It was like youth vibes. It was so childish.”
SZA says she spent her youth, “around a n*gga, up under a n*gga, trying to get up under a n*gga, like, needing that constant validation, companionship, like scared to be by myself and sh*t,” but now she believes she won’t be able to get into another relationship while she’s in her prime.
“I feel like I have more to offer than the way I look and my energy, but it’s like, I’m human, that shit is all-encompassing,” she reasons. “I want to stunt like me when I meet the person I envision me being with. I envision them falling in love with me the way I am. But I guess it’s like I have to release that idea. Maybe it’s because I don’t know if I’ll like the way I am later?”