SZA isn’t an artist who regularly gets involved in controversies, but when challenged, she will push back. That was the situation last summer when firebrand rapper Nicki Minaj publicly accused SZA’s manager, TDE’s Terrence “Punch” Henderson , of bullying her. SZA responded obliquely, but then the situation devolved into a back and forth too complicated to summarize quickly.

SZA spoke about the exchange in the latest GQ .

“I don’t know her,” SZA said of Minaj. “We have no connection to each other. There’s no backstory. Like, there was no through line narrative. It was just like, ‘Roc Nation’…. I don’t know where it came from. That’s not even my place to correct a narrative that I don’t got shit to do with. It was a little strange. It was very like, ‘Why?’ But also, you know, ‘I gue

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