Dom Innarella Keeps SZA’s Chorus and Writes Himself Into “Snooze”

A Thursday upload to SoundCloud wraps the New Jersey singer’s own verses around one of the most decorated R&B hooks of the decade.

The tease came first. Dom Innarella floated the rel on his TikTok with a short question about a Thursday drop and a #DomTapes tag, and on Thursday, October 1, the finished track went up as Snooze (SZA Remix) on his SoundCloud with a full lyric sheet posted underneath.

Signal. What happened: Dom Innarella released his remix of SZA’s “Snooze” as the newest entry in his Dom Tapes series. Exact object: “Snooze (SZA Remix) – Dom Innarella,” a single upload that keeps SZA’s chorus and replaces her verses and bridge with new writing from Dom. When and where: October 1, 2026, on Dom Innarella’s official SoundCloud. Source: the artist’s own SoundCloud upload and lyric sheet, plus his TikTok teaser. Why it matters: a 15-year-old Republic Records artist is reworking a song that spent 70 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, and doing it on his own channels between label singles.

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A series surfaced in June, when he posted a remix of Bryson Tiller’s “Don’t” under the Dom Tapes Vol. 1 banner and told commenters he was four years old when the original came out. Both uploads mix the source song’s familiar lines with writing of his own, and both lean on records with a long shelf life in R&B playlists.

The source material this time carries real weight. SZA wrote the original “Snooze” in a fast session with Babyface, Leon Thomas, Khris Riddick-Tynes, and producer BLK, and it sat eighth on her 2022 album SOS before turning into a slow-burn single. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, appeared on every Hot 100 chart published in 2023, and won the Grammy for Best R&B Song. Covers have come from Leon Thomas himself, from Terrace Martin on saxophone, and from John Legend at a piano, while Justin Bieber’s 2023 acoustic version handed him the second verse without adding any new lyrics.

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Dom’s version goes further than that acoustic swap. Going by the lyric sheet he posted, he holds SZA’s chorus and closing ad-libs largely in place and rewrites the rest. Each of his two verses opens on an echo of hers, borrowing the counting rhythm of her first line and the convertible image that starts her second, before turning toward his own material, including a nod to East Coast accents. Where SZA’s bridge stages an argument, he substitutes a repeated section built around a refrain of his own.

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Doo-wop came before any of this. One of Dom’s grandfathers sang in a 1950s group called The Elaborates, and the other performed alongside acts including Frankie Valli and Frankie Lymon, details he shared with Sweety High in March while describing a household where, in his words, “Music’s always been in my blood.”

Now 15, he taught himself piano and guitar, began posting cover videos in late 2023, and broke through in early 2025 with “Bout Me,” which reached No. 1 on Canada’s Spotify Viral chart and No. 2 in the US before passing 10 million streams, figures cited in a Republic Records release note for his August 2025 single “Call Me.” Singles since have included “Jersey in July,” “Magic,” “Pieces,” and “Candles,” and his spring schedule included a festival appearance in Japan.

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The Dom Tapes run sits apart from that release schedule, on his own channels. As of October 5, the “Snooze” upload showed just over 1,000 SoundCloud plays and 89 likes, while the “Don’t” remix had passed 5,900 plays, with commenters there asking when it would reach other platforms.