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Why SZA Doesn’t Love Being Labeled R&B · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Siss has made massive waves across the music industry over
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Speaker 2: the past year, thanks in large parts of last year's
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Speaker 2: Out and Mess so West, breaking multiple chart records, earning
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Speaker 2: her a reputation as the most dominant voice in R
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Speaker 2: and B. But Scissa herself doesn't necessarily like being categorized
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Speaker 2: in that way. She tells Days, the only reason I'm
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Speaker 2: defined as an R and B artist is because I'm black.
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Speaker 2: Siss adds, it's almost a little reductive because it doesn't
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Speaker 2: allow space to beat or try anything else. At the
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Speaker 2: same time, it's nothing to get ben out of shape about,
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Speaker 2: because it's just how people are processing you. As long
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Speaker 2: as I don't process myself that way, I don't necessarily
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Speaker 2: box myself into anything. I'm just trying to make music,
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Speaker 2: vibe out and enjoy the experience. Scissi they on rejecting
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Speaker 2: any genre labels being applied to her music. Her latest Saturn,
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Speaker 2: is out now
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