Adulate
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Last published Tue, May 9, 2023
THERES A TRAILER !
Sza aka Marley is an upcoming R&B artist and the game is hitting her fast. All she wants to do is speak her truth on a beat but of course that's never all being a celebrity comes with.
Marley is struggling to adapt to such a new lifestyle all while trying to juggle with keeping her peace and sanity intact. While dealing with other artists, the spotlight, and shady industry workers.
The quick fame becomes a little too much for Marley so and refuses to lose her self within the fame so in order for to stay that pure and strong minded Marley she chooses to take a few months off and just enjoy her family. She'll learn that the place she thought she never needed, she needs the l
Unexpectedly she meets who notoriously used call ZB but who she'll be calling Zahir.
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