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SZA blames Punch and her engineer for the songs not making it to the album

SZA’s new album SOS didn’t include some of her highly-anticipated songs like “Boy From South Detroit,” “Joni,” “PSA,” and “Potting Season.” In a recent interview that emerged online, the singer blames TDE president Punch and her engineer, Rob, for the records being left out on the album.

“A song called ‘Boy from South Detroit’ that Twitter wanted really bad, Rob nor Punch really cared about that song,” she explained. “They weren’t excited about it and Rob was just like, ‘I don’t really think this is the song.’ And then Punch was indifferent about the song, but I was like, ‘No, I really believe in this!’”

All though SZA didn’t say when SOS deluxe will drop, she revealed it will include “Boy From South Detroit.”

“Or ‘Joni’ being a song that I really wanted on the album, but Punch was like, ‘This song has been out for years! And no one wants to hear songs that were out for years. Everyone wants to hear new songs from you,’” she added. “I’m like, ‘Okay.’ Of course that’s a song they’re asking for on the internet.

“Or whether it’s ‘PSA’ or ‘Potting Season,’ and he’s like, ‘Oh, that sounds too much like ‘Blind’ so you can’t have both of those on the album because they sound too much alike and people will get bored of hearing that.’ People are asking, ‘Where the fuck is ‘PSA’ on the album?’”

TDE Punch was accused by SZA for delaying her next album

TDE boss Terrence “Punch” Henderson recently stopped by Math Hoffa’s My Expert Opinion podcast where he spoke about TDE artist SZA’s July claims that he’s the reason the Ctrl singer’s next album is being delayed.

“You gotta understand the context, and you have to know the person,” Punch explained. “You have to know how something was said. If it was lighthearted. If it was serious, like what it was. If she’s responding to somebody and saying, ‘You gotta ask Punch.’ You can take that a gang of different ways based on your disposition.”

He added: “And you only get so many characters when you’re tweeting, and people get a whole story and run with it. What I always like to ask is: What do I gain from not putting the album out?”

He went on to explain what actually happened. “I remember one of the main things that kicked this off,” he stated. “I was dropping the ‘Hit Different’ record and Ty Dolla $ign was on the hook, but Ty had just dropped his single. So they called and asked could we wait for a week just to give him some run on what he was doing before we put ours out.”