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SZA’s new SOS Deluxe: LANA is the blockbuster event to cap off 2024… Unless any other challengers will drop before the year’s out. Either way, fans are very pleased with this new project, and they particularly love one collab that continued Kendrick Lamar’s dominant run over the past nine months. “30 For 30” nabbed some impressive Spotify numbers in its first full day on the platform, garnering 3.16 million streams to become the top new music debut of the week. Obviously, this sparked a lot of debate online, as fans in the replies of the Twitter post below pointed to different streaming numbers for the track’s first 24 hours.

Of course, that debate wasn’t complete without its fair share of Drake fans poking holes in SZA and Kendrick Lamar’s “30 For 30” and bashing the song’s performance and lyrical content. This is because of a presumed Drizzy diss (or perhaps multiple) that some fans think Kendrick supposedly included in the record. It makes us wonder if these two MCs will ever do anything again that fans don’t immediately use to talk about the beef or bash one artist over another.

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SZA & Kendrick Lamar’s “30 For 30” Streams Well On Spotify

However, SZA and Kendrick Lamar’s new track “30 For 30” also caused debate from some fans who thought the singer subliminally dissed DJ Akademiks. He even spoke about this on his livestream, making some harsh and critical remarks about his past beef with the St. Louis native and her fanbase. However, the streamer and media personality went through the actual lyrics and found that nothing from this romantic cut really seems to diss him, so fans threw him down a seemingly wrong path. Just goes to show how much we need to pump the brakes on all these narratives.

Regardless of all this discussion, SZA and Kendrick Lamar’s “30 For 30” is a killer cut that we’re sure they will stun with during their upcoming tour. Also, with the TDE songwriter apparently dropping more music in 2024, fans are ready to spin many more tracks over and over again. We’ll see if that actually manifests or if SOS Deluxe: LANA will have to hold us over for longer.

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DJ Akademiks Speaks On SZA

Dj Akademiks responds to sza dissing him on her new album . BIG AK doesn’t allow the sneak dissing . If ain’t directly directed at me we ain’t respecting it pic.twitter.com/P9wHGNOJU9

— joebuddenclips/fanpage (@Chatnigga101) December 22, 2024

That being said, one theory that DJ Akademiks seems to support is that Kendrick Lamar dissed Drake on this SZA collab. “You f***ing with n***as that’s thinking they cuter than you / Say you on your cycle, but he on his period too,” he raps on the cut, which some fans saw as a pointed attack at the 6ix God. Regardless of whether or not Drizzy will interpret it as such, it’s also a very easy theory to dismiss given the generally romantic and easy-going vibe of the track as a whole. We already know what it looks like when these artists actually go at each other, so why rush things?

Meanwhile, with even more SZA music seemingly on the way, we wonder whether she will respond to this DJ Akademiks take in any way. We doubt it, but then again, this year held many more surprises than we thought, and 2025 could certainly follow suit. In any case, fans are happy to have one last big collab and battle-adjacent debate in 2024.