SZA has revealed that she will make her acting debut on an upcoming project, details of which have yet to be announced. The R&B star recently posted on her Instagram Story about the new development in her career.
“Can’t believe I got the part I wanted,” SZA wrote. “She’s an actress.”
The post also included a cake that had been gifted to her that read: “Congrats
record breaker and fire actress.”
Hot New Hip-Hop reports that the musician later added: “Lmao thank y’all! And before y’all start somebody BOUGHT me this cake. It’s a sweet gesture n I was being appreciative.”
On December 17, SZA broke Apple Music’s R&B streaming record with ‘I Hate U’. The official release of the track scored the biggest first-week streams of all-time on the platform for an R&B song by a female artist.
‘I Hate U’ was originally released anonymously in demo form back in August, alongside ‘Nightbird’ and ‘Joni’, through a SoundCloud account named “.”, which SZA later confirmed the songs were hers by tweeting out a link to the account and saying she was “dumping random thoughts”.
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The official version was put out after the track went viral on TikTok. “Honestly this started out as an exercise. I just wanted somewhere to dump my thoughts without pressure,” SZA wrote on Instagram before the song’s release. “Y’all made it a thing and I’m not mad lmao. Ask and u shall receive.”
It’s currently unclear whether ‘I Hate U’ will feature on the follow-up to SZA’s debut album ‘CTRL’. In July, the star joked that she’d considered scrapping work on her new record and “start from scratch”.
