Drake and SZA are set to join forces for the very first time — musically speaking, anyway — for a new song arriving soon.
On Wednesday (September 13), the 6 God shared the cover art for a new track on Instagram and tagged the TDE songstress. SZA followed suit by posting the same image on her own IG page and tagging Drake back.
The artwork is a photo of actress Halle Berry covered in green slime at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards in 2012.
While neither Drake nor SZA have announced a title or release date for the collaboration, the former promised fans during a tour stop in Austin, Texas on Monday (September 11) that he’s planning to drop the first single from his upcoming album For All the Dogs “this week.”
As two of the biggest stars in music today, the prospect of Drake and SZA combining their talents on wax left their respective fanbases counting down the hours until the song’s likely release at midnight on Friday (September 15).
“The moment has come omg,” one fan commented on Drizzy’s post, while a follower of SZA’s gushed on her post: “Omfg!!! You and Audrey doing a collab???!”
Although this will mark their first official collaboration, Drake and SZA are no strangers. In October 2020, the OVO rapper had the internet goin’ nuts after he claimed that he dated the New Jersey native back in the day.
“Yeah, said she wanna fuck to some SZA — wait/ ‘Cause I used to date SZA back in ’08/ If you cool with it, baby, she can still play,” he rapped on 21 Savage and Metro Boomin‘s Savage Mode 2 track “Mr. Right Now.”
SZA initially responded by unfollowing Drake on Instagram, before confirming days later that they did indeed have a brief fling.
She also clarified a minor detail that Drake had apparently got wrong and shut down speculation that she was underage at the time.
“So it was actually 2009 lol,” she tweeted. “In this case a year of poetic rap license mattered. Lol I think he jus innocently rhymed 08 w wait. Anybody who…
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