SZA stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Stay! on Tuesday evening (March 12) and spilled particulars about her upcoming Grand Nationwide Tour with Kendrick Lamar, her pleasure for Sesame Road, and dodged a cheeky query about Drake.
When Kimmel requested if the Grand Nationwide Tour would resemble their Tremendous Bowl LVIII halftime efficiency, the “Saturn” singer teased that followers can anticipate one thing solely new.
“Oh, we’re doing a brand new factor,” she mentioned. “We’re each simply form of throwing all of the paint on the wall… That is our first stadium present for each of us, so we just about should go insane.”
Whereas SZA and Lamar is perhaps co-headlining, she hinted that the Mr. Morale & The Massive Steppers rapper could be very a lot in his personal lane.
“Effectively, he’s a wizard, in order that’s totally different,” she quipped when requested in the event that they hang around behind the scenes. “Wizards are typically solitary beings, from my commentary… I feel he’s doing the Merlin factor backstage, getting us able to take off.”
The “Kill Invoice” singer additionally fielded a not-so-subtle query from Kimmel concerning the tour’s upcoming Toronto cease—the place one specific rapper famously resides.
“However what if you-know-who exhibits up?” Kimmel requested, clearly alluding to Canadian rapper, Drake.
SZA merely shrugged: “Who is aware of? Who is aware of?” earlier than Kimmel joked that Kendrick would “wave his wand, and he’ll disappear.”
“That’s what he’s the person backstage,” she replied.
Past the tour, SZA additionally gushed to Kimmel a couple of lifelong dream coming true—showing on Sesame Road.
“That was truly essentially the most intense room of celebrities I’ve ever been in,” she joked. “Elmo, Massive Chicken, Oscar the Grouch… I bought to speak to Cookie Monster.”
When Kimmel requested concerning the blue monster’s conversational abilities, she laughed: “Horrible diction and alliteration. Very poor vocabulary, however tons of enthusiasm, I used to be so impressed!”
“It was like a real indicator that I’ve made it,” SZA added of her look on the present. “Shout out to the Tremendous Bowl however Sesame Road..”
The Grand Nationwide Tour kicks off April 19 in Minneapolis, with stops throughout North America earlier than heading abroad.
