One of many many praises that SZA usually receives as a songwriter is that she pens R&B anthems in a mode as complex as her rapper labelmates on High Dawg Leisure (particularly on her new album, SOS). And though she’s not strictly seen as a rapper, she may launch an entire album of straight-up rap if she needed to as a result of she has sufficient songs to take action, in response to High Dawg president Punch.
The longsuffering label head — he’s taken plenty of abuse from SZA followers over time for the steps he’s taken to make sure her success, though he turns out to be right as a rule — sat down with Rap Radar Podcast and gave his takes on SZA’s development since she signed to the label virtually a decade in the past.
“I believe she’s adjusting [to fame] lots higher now,” he mentioned. “I believe it’s lastly beginning to set in as to what’s occurring and who she is. Like, for the longest, I don’t really feel she linked who SZA is to Solána. However I believe now, she’s beginning to see it, to grasp.”
So far as her rap-infused songwriting style, he revealed that the “genre-bending” singer may simply maintain her personal with the remainder of TDE’s roster. “She’s all the time bended the style, so it wasn’t nothing new, it was simply going, pushing it additional,” he famous. “Like, she doing full rap data now … That’s all her, yeah, one hundred pc. She bought like an EP’s price of full rap data, like all the best way out, no singing.”
Hey Punch, right here me out: A tag-team joint undertaking with Doechii. Gangbusters, fam. Thank me later.
You possibly can watch the total episode of Punch’s interview with Rap Radar‘s Elliott Wilson and Brian Miller above.
