Ctrl, the debut album by Top Dawg artist SZA, is so self-assured, so blunt and direct, that you'd never guess how circuitous its path to existence was. There was long stretches of album delays and conceptual reworks (the original title was A, to follow a series of themed mixtapes), not to mention long stretches of self-doubt during which she
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: SZA: How the Breakout R&B Star Conquered Self-Doubt and Took ‘Ctrl’