Revisiting SZA's Past With Drake Ahead of Kendrick Lamar Halftime Show
SZA briefly dated Drake over a decade before the Canadian rapper’s rivalry with Kendrick Lamar hit a boiling point
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SZA may not be involved in the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, but she does have a history with her friend’s rival.
The “Kill Bill” singer, 35, is set to take the stage with Lamar, 37, at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, February 9, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. While the pair have collaborated numerous times throughout their career, most recently on Lamar’s 2024 album, GNX, SZA has also worked with Drake, 38 — and briefly dated him.
Lamar, meanwhile, has a long history with Drake that stretches back to 2013. While the pair have traded lyrical jabs for years, their rivalry became global news in 2024 when they exchanged a series of vicious diss tracks. The battle culminated with the release of Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” in which the Pulitzer Prize winner accused Drake of pedophilia. (Drake denied the allegations in his song “The Heart Part 6.”)
Keep scrolling for a breakdown of SZA and Drake’s history:
Related: A Complete Timeline of Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s Feud
Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s feud has become one of the most storied rap beefs in history, but their relationship wasn’t always so fraught with tension. Before Lamar made his major label debut with 2012’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, the Compton native and Drake were on good terms. Lamar made a guest appearance on Drake’s 2011 […]
‘Mr. Right Now’In 2020, Drake revealed in the song “Mr. Right Now” that he and SZA had briefly dated a decade prior. “Yeah, said she wanna f— to some SZA, wait / ‘Cause I used to date SZA back in ’08,” he rapped.
SZA then confirmed via Twitter (now X) that she dated Drake but claimed he got the timeline wrong.
Related: SZA Reflects on 'Childish' Fling With Drake: 'It Wasn't Hot and Heavy'
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic; Rich Fury/Getty Images When reminiscing about her 2009 fling with Drake, SZA didn’t exactly remember it as a storybook romance. “We were really young,” the singer , 33, told Rolling Stone in this week’s cover story, which was published on Tuesday, October 3. “It wasn’t hot and heavy or anything. It was like […]
“So It was actually 2009 lol … in this case a year of poetic rap license mattered lol,” she wrote. “I think he jus innocently rhymed 08 w wait. Anybody who really knows me and was around during this time can confirm … it’s all love all peace.”
In another tweet, she added, “I just didn’t want anybody thinking anything underage or creepy was happening. Completely innocent. Lifetimes ago.”
Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for CoachellaStill ‘Cool’During an interview with Audacy, SZA said that Drake gave her a heads-up before the release of “Mr. Right Now.”
“We’re cool, we’ve always been cool. It’s never been weird. It’s never come completely out of the blue,” she said in December 2022. “Anytime he’s ever mentioned me, it’s always been positive. He’s never said anything negative about me. I’m grateful for that and I think highly of him, and I think it’s really weird that as all these years went past, I am an artist now and I wasn’t then and he’s King Drake.”
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She also compared the rapper to an iconic Mean Girls character, saying, “I feel like Drake has a Regina George quality to him where it’s just kind of like, ‘Have you or anyone you know been personally victimized?’ He’s like a cool kid, you know. When you’re the popular kid in school, it’s entertaining. It’s entertaining, but you sometimes are taking losses in the midst of that entertainment. The honesty, I respect that. But I definitely laughed real hard … I cackled.”
Related: Drake Gets 'Slimy' With Ex SZA on New Song
Drake and SZA are back making beautiful music together. Years after Drake, 36, revealed that he and SZA, 33, were an item, the two teamed up for “Slime You Out.” Released on Friday, September 15, the song sees Drake revisit his emotional rap voice. After calling out a lover for putting his “mind in a […]
‘Slime You Out’More than a decade after their fling, SZA and Drake collaborated for the first time on the track “Slime You Out” from his album For All the Dogs. Drake introduced SZA on the song with the lines, “And my slime right here, she got some bars for y’all n—-s / So I’ma fall back and let SZA talk her s— for a minute.”
A ‘Childish’ RomanceSZA opened up about her relationship with Drake in an interview with Rolling Stone and admitted it was never serious. “We were really young,” she said in October 2023. “It wasn’t hot and heavy or anything. It was like youth vibes. It was so childish.”
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