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SZA has seemingly confirmed that she plans to release a new album very soon. She appeared alongside Lizzo as a guest on Kai Cenat’s Mafiathon 2 livestream this past weekend and let slip to the Twitch streamer that she has a “whole new project” ready to go. When Cenat asked SZA when it would be released she told him to expect to hear something “before the year is over.”
SZA has announced while on Kai Cenat’s Mafiathon 2 that she will be dropping her next album before the end of the year 🔥 pic.twitter.com/m3aEZvZDiC
— ryan 🤿 (@scubaryan_) November 24, 2024
Any late-2024 release would be in keeping with SZA’s previous album, SOS, which arrived in December of 2022.
In a recent interview with British Vogue, SZA said she had to projects in development; a deluxe edition of SOS and her third studio album, Lana. It remains unclear if she was referring to one, or both, of these titles with Cenat.
“I think I am making music from a more beautiful place. From a more possible place versus a more angsty place,” she told the publication. “I’m not identifying with my brokenness. It’s not my identity. It’s shit that happened to me. Yeah, I experienced cruelty. I have to put it down at some point. Piece by piece, my music is shifting because of that, the lighter I get.”
SZA makes two appearances on GNX, the new album from her former TDE label-mate Kendrick Lamar. She contributed vocals to “luther” and “gloria” on the album, which was dropped as a surprise release on Friday, November 22.