People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it’s interesting to me. I’m just making music.
SZAI was a funky kid.
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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate, I realized, ‘Oh I’m my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don’t mind.’
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I don’t have a primary doctor, a primary hairstylist, a primary anything. I don’t even have a primary address! Everything is just whenever I can find one.
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I always used to be like, ‘I don’t need to meditate.’ And it’s not true.
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I don’t want to speak negativity into existence.
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I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj’s ‘Feeling Myself.’
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I worry so much. Like, ‘Damn, how can I be excellent?’ But it’s a journey.
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I was born in St. Louis, but I’m from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It’s very small. It’s quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.
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I do a lot of strange things.
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I think we all do: I think we wonder if we’re supposed to be here if we’re doing the right thing if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time.
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I don’t think I’m inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be a feminist, and I think I resonate with that. I think it just chose me to be this female energy, thing. And I’m very drawn to female energy, but I don’t really have any prerequisites in feminism. I just roll with it.
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My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.
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I don’t have a background in music, and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I’m gonna get lost.
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We’re changing little girls’ lives across the world, and we didn’t even know what we were doing when we started.
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My mom didn’t let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
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