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Saweetie at 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

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Key Takeaways:

• Saweetie responded to a fan calling out her long-awaited debut album with a playful “iconic” quote.
• The rapper’s perfectionism and evolving imaginative and prescient have contributed to the delay of Pretty B**ch Music.
• Despite no album, Saweetie has saved followers fed with singles like “boffum” and her upcoming EP, Hella Pressure.

It’s been over seven years since Saweetie’s breakthrough single, “ICY GRL,” and clearly, persons are nonetheless counting the times it’s taking her to lastly drop her debut album. On Wednesday (July 23), the rapper humorously responded to a social media consumer questioning how she’s managed to get away with out one for “almost a decade.”

“I think it’s ridiculous that Saweetie has been in the music industry since 2017, and doesn’t have a debut album yet,” one Twitter consumer wrote. “Even if nobody’s checking for it, how do you even get away with that for almost a decade?”

She quote-tweeted the publish with, “IDK, it’s kind of…” alongside a GIF of Joanne The Scammer — aka Branden Miller — that learn, “Iconic.”

Years have handed since Saweetie first introduced her debut album, which, on the time, was titled Pretty B**ch Music. Initially anticipated to reach in June 2021, the venture’s delay may be partially defined by the rapper’s perfectionist tendencies. “I’m a Cancer, so I like to overthink sometimes, but I think you have to be really careful with that,” she informed E! News in 2023.

By the next yr, in a dialog with REVOLT, the Southern California native hinted that “Pretty B**ch Music” won’t absolutely seize the place she’s at anymore. “It’s still in the running, but [with] the music I’ve produced and written, a new title would fit the body of work,” Saweetie stated.

Of course, she hasn’t left followers empty-handed both. THE SINGLE LIFE dropped to a lukewarm reception in 2022, however she’s greater than made up for it with tracks like “Richtivities,” “NANi,” and, extra not too long ago, “boffum.” The last-mentioned document is anticipated to look on her upcoming EP, Hella Pressure, scheduled to return out on Aug. 1.