SZA releases new album ‘Lana’ and shares a brand new Kendrick Lamar collaboration

SZA has launched ‘Lana’, the reissue of her 2022 album ‘SOS’ – and it features a Kendrick Lamar function.

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This week, the singer revealed that the long-awaited Lana would arrive at this time (December 20). She first started teasing the album final yr, and introduced earlier this month that it might be the deluxe model of ‘SOS’ quite than a standalone album.

Some followers had anticipated waking as much as ‘Lana’ this morning, with SZA writing on her Instagram Tales final night time, “FULL DELUXE OUT TOMORROW AM. On the twentieth! Simply wanted a number of extra hours for brand spanking new mixes to ingest evenly throughout all platforms.. (mixes are necessary) love you camp.”

In the meantime, her supervisor, Terrence “Punch” Henderson, stated on X (Twitter) that it might be out at 12pm PT/3pm ET/8pm GMT.

12pm. It’s my fault.

— Punch TDE (@iamstillpunch) December 20, 2024

SZA – ‘Lana’ tracklist: 

1. 1. ‘No Extra Hiding’ 
   2. ‘What Do I Do’ 
   3. ‘30 For 30’ (with Kendrick Lamar)
   4. ‘Diamond Boy (DTM)’ 
   5. ‘BMF’
   6. ‘Scorsese Child Daddy’
   7. ‘Love Me 4 Me’ 
   8. ‘Chill Child’ 
   9. ‘My Flip’ 
   10. ‘Crybaby’ 
   11. ‘Kitchen’
   12. ‘Get Behind Me (Interlude)’
   13. ‘Drive’
   14. ‘One other Life’
   15. ‘Saturn’

Earlier at this time, she shared a music video for her new single ‘Drive’, which she confirmed can be on the report. The video stars actor Ben Stiller, whereas SZA herself additionally makes an look in a bug-like type, harking back to the album cowl. ‘Saturn’, which she launched again in February, can be on the album.

And, after SZA appeared on Kendrick Lamar’s shock album ‘GNX’ final month and introduced a joint North American tour with him for subsequent yr, Lamar has returned the favour with a function on ‘Lana’.

They duet on ‘30 For 30’, whereas there’s additionally manufacturing from Lil Yachty and Benny Blanco on one music every. The opposite collaborators on the album are largely these she labored with on ‘SOS’, together with Michael Uzowuru, ThankGod4Cody, Rob Bisel and Carter Lang.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s 2025 ‘Grand Nationwide’ tour dates are: 

APRIL
19 – Minneapolis, MN – U.S. Financial institution Stadium
23 – Houston, TX – NRG Stadium
26 – Arlington, TX – AT&T Stadium
29 – Atlanta, GA – Mercedes Benz Stadium

MAY
3 – Charlotte, NC – Financial institution of America Stadium
5 – Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Monetary Subject
8 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
9 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
12 – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium
17 – Seattle, WA – Lumen Subject
21 – Los Angeles, CA – SoFi Stadium
23 – Los Angeles, CA – SoFi Stadium
27 – Glendale, AZ – State Farm Stadium
29 – San Francisco, CA – Oracle Park
31 – Las Vegas, NV – Allegiant Stadium

JUNE
4 – St. Louis, MO – The Dome at America’s Heart
6 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Subject
10 – Detroit, MI – Ford Subject
12 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre
16 – Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium
18 – Washington, DC – Northwest Stadium

When ‘SOS‘ was launched two years in the past, it obtained acclaim from critics, in addition to 9 Grammy nominations. It hit Quantity One on the Billboard 200 and Quantity Two on the UK Single Chart, additionally being licensed 3x Platinum within the US.

In a five-star assessment of ‘SOS’, NME described it as “a comeback album effectively well worth the wait,” including: “I’m making the perfect album of my life for this subsequent album,” SZA advised Flaunt in 2020 and ‘SOS’ is simply that – an exceptional report that hardly places a foot improper and raises the bar even greater than she set it earlier than. That quote, although, got here with a caveat: “As a result of it’s going to be my final album.” Right here’s hoping SZA reneges on that declaration however, if that is the final we hear from right here, not less than she’s going out on the very best of highs.”