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American singer-songwriter SZA co-writes almost all of her songs with their respective producers; for many of them, she is the sole lyricist.[a] Her repertoire encompasses two studio albums, one reissue album, three extended plays (EPs), multiple film and television soundtracks, and several guest appearances. Psychedelic and lo-fi instrumentals characterize SZA's early songs, and the self-uploaded SoundCloud EPs See.SZA.Run (2012) and S (2013) were her career's first releases.[2] Executives at Top Dawg Entertainment took notice of her SoundCloud music and signed a recording contract with her in 2013. Afterwards, she released her third EP Z (2014).[3]
Three years later, SZA released her debut studio album, Ctrl. Many of the people who contributed to the album were or became frequent collaborators, including Travis Scott, then-labelmate Kendrick Lamar, and producer Carter Lang. Critics have identified Ctrl as primarily an R&B album with elements of jazz and alternative.[4][5] As time passed, the media started to consistently label SZA as an R&B artist, and she surmised the categorization was due to stereotypes about Black women in music.[6][7] Wanting to demonstrate her versatility, she incorporated an amalgam of genres on her second album, SOS (2022), such as R&B, rap, rock, and pop.[8][9] SOS's reissue, Lana (2024), was supported by the singles "Saturn", "BMF", and "30 for 30".
Outside of her albums and EPs, SZA has appeared on dozens of songs by other musicians like Lamar, Isaiah Rashad, and Doja Cat. Her unreleased music comprises a large amount of album outtakes and scrapped verses, many of which have leaked online. She thinks of the aforementioned leakers as thieves, and her label's manager Punch said that these leaks could cause her releases to be postponed or even cancelled.[10][11]
† | Indicates single release |
# | Indicates songs with uncredited vocals by SZA |
Song | Performer(s) | Writer(s) | Album, EP, mixtape, or single(s) |
Year | Ref. |
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"2AM" | SZA | Ctrl (deluxe) | 2022 | [14][15] | |
"9" |
|
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3 | 2014 | [14][16] |
"20 Something" | SZA | Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | |
"30 for 30" † | Lana | 2025 | [18] | ||
"About a Gemini, Pt. 3" |
|
|
Into the Blue Light | 2022 | [19] |
"Advil" | SZA | See.SZA.Run | 2012 | [14][20] | |
"Aftermath" | SZA |
|
S | 2013 | [14][20] |
"All the Stars" † |
|
Black Panther: The Album | 2018 | [21] | |
"The Anonymous Ones" † | SZA[b] | Dear Evan Hansen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 2021 | [22] | |
"Another Life" | SZA |
|
Lana | 2024 | [23] |
"Anything" | SZA | Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | |
"Awkward" | SZA |
|
Ctrl (deluxe) | 2022 | [14][24] |
"Babylon" † | Z | 2014 | [14][25] | ||
"Beautiful" |
|
God Did | 2022 | [26] | |
"Bed" | SZA |
|
See.SZA.Run | 2012 | [14][20] |
"Big Boys" |
|
|
None | 2022 | [27] |
"Blind" | SZA |
|
SOS | 2022 | [28] |
"BMF" † | SZA | Lana | 2025 | [29] | |
"Broken Clocks" † | SZA | Ctrl | 2018 | [17] | |
"Caretaker" |
|
|
Gahdamn! | 2015 | [30] |
"Castles" † | SZA |
|
S | 2013 | [14][20] |
"Childs Play" † |
|
Z | 2014 | [14][31] | |
"Chill Baby" | SZA |
|
Lana | 2024 | [32] |
"Coming Back" |
|
Friends That Break Your Heart | 2021 | [33] | |
"Conceited" | SZA | SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"Consideration" |
|
Anti | 2016 | [34] | |
"Country" † | SZA | See.SZA.Run | 2012 | [14][20] | |
"Crack Dreams" | SZA | See.SZA.Run | 2012 | [14][20] | |
"Crybaby" | SZA |
|
Lana | 2024 | [35] |
"Diamond Boy (DTM)" | SZA |
|
Lana | 2024 | [36] |
"DJ's Chord Organ" |
|
|
Balloonerism | 2025 | [37] |
"Doves in the Wind" | Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | ||
"Down 4 Whatever" |
|
Unknown | Tears in the Club | 2017 | [38] |
"Drew Barrymore" † | SZA | Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | |
"Drive" | SZA |
|
Lana | 2024 | [39] |
"Easy Bake" |
|
90059 | 2015 | [14][40] | |
"Euphraxia" | SZA | Dot | See.SZA.Run | 2012 | [14][20] |
"F2F" | SZA[d] | SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"Far" | SZA | SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"Forgiveless" | SOS | 2022 | [28] | ||
"Freaky Girls" |
|
Good News | 2020 | [14][43] | |
"Fue Mejor" † |
|
Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) (deluxe) | 2021 | [44] | |
"Garden (Say It like Dat)" † | SZA | Ctrl | 2018 | [17] | |
"Get Behind Me (Interlude)" | SZA |
|
Lana | 2024 | [45] |
"Ghost in the Machine" |
|
SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"Gloria" | GNX | 2024 | [46] | ||
"Go Gina" | SZA | Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | |
"Gods Reign" |
|
|
These Days... | 2014 | [47] |
"Gone Girl" | SZA | SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"Good Days" † | SZA[f] |
|
SOS | 2020 | [28] |
"Green Mile" | SZA | Z | 2014 | [14][49] | |
"Happy Birthday" | Woosah | 2017 | [14][50] | ||
"HiiiJack" | SZA | Z | 2014 | [14][51] | |
"His & Her Fiend" |
|
Oxymoron (deluxe) | 2014 | [14][52] | |
"Hit Different" † | Non-album single | 2020 | [28] | ||
"Homemade Dynamite" (remix) † |
|
Melodrama | 2017 | [14][53] | |
"I Do" |
|
Invasion of Privacy | 2018 | [54] | |
"I Hate U" † | SZA |
|
SOS | 2021 | [28] |
"Ice.Moon" † | SZA |
|
S | 2013 | [14][20] |
"Jodie" | SZA | Ctrl (deluxe) | 2022 | [14][55] | |
"Julia" † | SZA |
|
Z | 2013 | [14][20] |
"Just for Me" † |
|
|
Space Jam: A New Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 2021 | [14][56] |
"Just Us" † |
|
|
Father of Asahd | 2019 | [14][57] |
"Kill Bill" † | SZA | SOS | 2023 | [28] | |
"Kill Bill" (remix) † |
|
Non-album single | 2023 | [14] | |
"Kismet" | SZA |
|
S | 2013 | [14][20] |
"Kiss Me More" † |
|
|
Planet Her | 2021 | [58] |
"Kitchen" | SZA | Lana | 2024 | [59] | |
"Lies" † |
|
|
Non-album single | 2016 | [14][60] |
"Lonely Soul/The Law (Prelude)" | Do What Thou Wilt | 2016 | [61] | ||
"Love Galore" † |
|
Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | |
"Love Galore" (Alt version) | SZA | Ctrl (deluxe) | 2022 | [62] | |
"Love Language" | SZA |
|
SOS | 2022 | [28] |
"Love Me 4 Me" | SZA |
|
Lana | 2024 | [63] |
"Low" | SZA[h] | SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"Luther" † | GNX | 2024 | [65] | ||
"Miles" | SZA | Ctrl (deluxe) | 2022 | [14][66] | |
"Morning View" |
|
WWW | 2018 | [14][67] | |
"My Turn" | SZA |
|
Lana | 2024 | [68] |
"The Need to Know" |
|
The Album About Nothing | 2015 | [69] | |
"Needle" # |
|
Pink Friday 2 | 2023 | [70][71] | |
"Neva Change" |
|
Blank Face LP | 2016 | [72] | |
"Never Lose Me" |
|
Fine Ho, Stay | 2024 | [14][73] | |
"No Love" † |
|
Still Over It |
2022 |
[14][74] | |
"No Love" (extended) † |
|
Still Over It | 2022 | [14] | |
"No More Hiding" | SZA |
|
Lana | 2024 | [75] |
"No Szns" † |
|
|
Non-album single | 2023 | [14][76] |
"Nobody Gets Me" † | SZA | SOS | 2023 | [28] | |
"Normal Girl" | SZA | Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | |
"Notice Me" | SZA | SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"The Odyssey" | SZA | S | 2013 | [14][20] | |
"Ok Alright" # | Rodeo | 2015 | [14][77] | ||
"Omega" | SZA | Z | 2014 | [14][78] | |
"Once Upon a High" | SZA |
|
See.SZA.Run | 2012 | [14][20] |
"Open Arms" |
|
SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"The Other Side" † | Trolls World Tour: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 2020 | [79] | ||
"Percolator" | SZA | Ctrl (deluxe) | 2022 | [14][80] | |
"Persuasive" (remix) † |
|
|
She / Her / Black Bitch | 2022 | [14][81] |
"Power Is Power" † |
|
For the Throne: Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones | 2019 | [82] | |
"Pray" | SZA |
|
S | 2013 | [14][20] |
"Pretty Little Birds" | Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | ||
"Prom" | SZA | Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | |
"PSA" | SZA |
|
|
[14] | |
"Quicksand" | SZA |
|
Insecure (Music from the HBO Original Series) | 2017 | [14][83] |
"Real Thing" |
|
Unknown | Ferg Forever | 2014 | [84][85] |
"Redemption" |
|
|
Redemption | 2018 | [86] |
"Rich Baby Daddy" † |
|
For All the Dogs | 2023 | [14][87] | |
"Ronnie Drake" † | Cilvia Demo | 2014 | [14][88] | ||
"Saturn" † | SZA | Lana | 2024 | [14][89] | |
"Score" | The House Is Burning | 2021 | [90] | ||
"Scorsese Baby Daddy" | SZA |
|
Lana | 2024 | [91] |
"Seek & Destroy" | SZA | SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"Shattered Ring" | SZA | Z | 2014 | [14][92] | |
"Shirt" † | SZA |
|
SOS | 2022 | [28] |
"Slime You Out" † |
|
|
For All the Dogs | 2023 | [14][93] |
"Smoking on My Ex Pack" | SZA |
|
SOS | 2022 | [28] |
"Snooze" † | SZA | SOS | 2023 | [28] | |
"Snooze" (acoustic) † | Non-album single | 2023 | [14][94] | ||
"Sobriety" † | SZA | Non-album single | 2014 | [95] | |
"SOS" | SZA | SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"Special" | SZA | SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"Special" (remix) † |
|
Special | 2023 | [14][96] | |
"Staring at the Sun" |
|
Hollywood's Bleeding | 2019 | [97] | |
"Stuck in the Mud" |
|
The Sun's Tirade | 2016 | [14] | |
"Supermodel" | SZA | Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | |
"Sweet November" | SZA | Z | 2014 | [14][98] | |
"Teen Spirit" † | SZA |
|
Non-album single | 2013 | [99][100] |
"Teen Spirit" (remix) † |
|
|
Non-album single | 2013 | [101][102] |
"Telekinesis" |
|
Utopia | 2023 | [14][103] | |
"Terror.Dome" | SZA |
|
S | 2013 | [14][20] |
"Time Travel Undone" † | SZA |
|
See.SZA.Run | 2012 | [14][20] |
"Tomorrow" |
|
Unknown | 24K | 2013 | [104] |
"Too Late" | SZA | SOS | 2022 | [28] | |
"Tread Carefully" | SZA | Ctrl (deluxe) | 2022 | [14][105] | |
"TwoAM" † | SZA | Non-album single | 2016 | [14][15] | |
"Untitled 04 | 08.14.2014" | Untitled Unmastered | 2016 | [106] | ||
"Ur" | SZA |
|
Z | 2014 | [14][107] |
"Used" |
|
|
SOS | 2022 | [28] |
"Warm Winds" † |
|
Z | 2014 | ||
"Wavy (Interlude)" |
|
Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | |
"The Weekend" † | SZA | Ctrl | 2017 | [17] | |
"The Weekend" (Funk Wav remix) † | Non-album single | 2017 | [14][110] | ||
"What Do I Do" | SZA | Lana | 2024 | [111] | |
"What Is Love" |
|
Rush Davis | Tears in the Club | 2017 | [112] |
"What Lovers Do" † |
|
Red Pill Blues | 2017 | [113] | |
"West Savannah" | Cilvia Demo | 2014 | [14][114] | ||
"Wings" | SZA |
|
S | 2013 | [14][20] |
Song | Performer(s) | Notes |
---|---|---|
"Back Together" | SZA | |
"Band Aids in a Box" | SZA |
|
"Brace Urself" | SZA | |
"Calling My Phone" |
| |
"Comethru" | SZA | |
"Die for You" (remix) |
|
|
"Guard Down" | SZA |
|
"Heroin" | SZA | |
"Inside Man" | SZA |
|
"Joni" | SZA |
|
"Lack of Better Words" | ||
"Loved Ones" | ||
"Nightbird" | SZA | |
"Passport" | SZA | |
"PT Cruiser" |
|
|
"Seasonal Depression" | SZA | |
"Take You Down" | SZA | |
"Tender" | SZA |
|
"Writer's Block – Interlude" | SZA |
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