See.SZA.Run
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| Mixtape by SZA | ||||
| Released | October 29, 2012 | |||
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| Label | Self released | |||
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See.SZA.Run is the debut mixtape by American recording artist SZA, self-released on October 29, 2012. After failing college and postponing Graduation school, in order to make money, SZA began recording music by accident, and decided to continue. SZA recorded songs with her friend who lived close by, in which they took production and beats from the internet.
A PBR&B and neo-soul, See.SZA.Run has a diverse musical style that incorporates contemporary urban genres such as soul, hip hop, and minimalist R&B, the EP also takes influences from cloud rap and ethereal R&B as well as using witch house and chillwave elements. The production is characterized as being built over billowing synths, bombing bass and crushed beats.
Upon release the extended play was met with critical acclaim from music critics, who commended the album, its lyrical content and its production, other critics compared the album to the work of musicians including Drake, The Weeknd, Miguel and Frank Ocean. To promote the extended play on October 9, 2012, SZA released a music video for the song "Country".
After secondary school, Rowe attended three separate colleges, in her freshman year she "got high and failed out". Rowe went to college to study a major in marine biology, with the intention to go to "grad school" in order to be a scientist and travel, the plan never accumulated and she began to do "random jobs" in order to make money. SZA first met members of Top Dawg Entertainment during the CMJ 2011, when her boyfriend's clothing company sponsored a show in which Kendrick Lamar was performing. A friend attending the show with her foisted early SZA songs onto TDE president Terrence "Punch" Henderson, who liked the material and stayed in touch.
SZA describes the process of recording for her EP as being “experimental,” without having a larger goal in mind. SZA first began recording music by accident, after recording one song she continued the process until she decided she should "something out of it." SZA recorded the songs with her friend and neighbor in which they "stole a bunch of beats off the Internet." The extended play featured production from brandUn DeShay, APSuperProducer, amongst others. After taking beats from Brandun DeShay it led SZA to begin actually working with DeShay.
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