What’s it wish to date the notorious Certifed Lover Boy? Simply ask SZA.
In a brand new cowl story for Rolling Stone, the “Snooze” singer opens up about what it was wish to date Drake. “We have been actually younger,” she stated of the connection that occurred again within the late 2000s when she was 18 and he was 22.
“It wasn’t scorching and heavy or something,” she continued. “It was like youth vibes. It was so infantile.”
The timing of the story’s launch is precisely three years after Drake first revealed the 2 had dated on the 21 Savage tune “Mr. Proper Now.” A lot to the shock of many on social media, Drake infamously rapped within the tune, “Yeah, stated she wanna f— to some SZA, wait / ’Trigger I used to this point SZA again in ’08.”
SZA confirmed and clarified Drake’s claims on the time on X, previously Twitter, writing, “So It was really 2009 lol..on this case a yr of poetic rap license mattered.”
The High Dawg Leisure expertise turned 18 in November 2008. For why Drake could have gotten the yr mistaken, SZA stated she was chalking it as much as needing to rhyme the yr with “wait.”
“Anyone who actually is aware of me and was round throughout this time can verify.. it’s all love, all peace,” she stated, including, “I simply didn’t need anyone pondering something underage or creepy was occurring. Fully harmless. Lifetimes in the past.”
Within the Rolling Stone profile, she discusses widespread public perceptions that she’s extra on the shy and timid facet or that she dwells on her insecurities – each factors she disagrees with.
“That’s a very good false impression,” she instructed the publication. “Individuals be like, ‘Insecurity is her model.’ It’s like, ‘No, [b—], I’m trustworthy with how I really feel about myself, but when I catch you saying that, it’s going to be completely different. I’ll nonetheless beat your a– over disrespecting me.’”
All through the years, rumors have swirled surrounding SZA’s courting life, together with that she’s dated fellow singer Kehlani and Invoice Nye, which often is the Invoice she’s referring to in her hit tune, “Kill Invoice.” The latter was largely only a joke after an image of the 2 surfaced on social media, whereas the previous was neither confirmed nor denied by both social gathering.
In the meantime, Drake, who has developed a knack for candidly referencing his previous amorous affairs in his music, has stated just lately that he’s making an attempt to interrupt that behavior. He’s conscious that generally when he brings up a previous relationship, it could negatively impression the opposite social gathering’s present life.
“I’ve tried my finest to cease doing that. However I wish to be trustworthy in music too in order that one’s a push and pull,” he instructed Lil Yachty in the course of the premiere episode of FUTUREMOODS’s “Moody Conversations.”
With regard to each Drake and SZA, since their romantic relationship got here to go, the 2 have remained associates and have even change into collaborators. The pair launched their first collaboration, “Slime You Out,” in September, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. Drake’s upcoming album, “For All of the Canines,” drops Friday, Oct. 6.
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