Before she released her second studio album, SOS (2022), SZA appeared in collaborations with several artists, including Kendrick Lamar with "All the Stars" in 2018.

"All the Stars", and the soundtrack, placed on several lists of the best music made for films by publications like Little White Lies.

In 2023, SOS received Album of the Year at the Soul Train Music Awards and the BET Awards, and it was placed alongside Ctrl at Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

[2] Increasing her Grammy wins to four, she won Best Progressive R&B Album for SOS alongside two other awards for two of its tracks.

That same year, Rolling Stone ranked the album's fifth single "Kill Bill" as one of the 500 greatest songs of all time and the subsequent single "Snooze" as one of the greatest R&B songs of the 21st century.