Since she was a kid, Simbiatu Ajikawo has had a low tolerance for disloyalty. There are quick quips lambasting snakes throughout her acclaimed discography, and even at eleven years old, she spit , “I’m Little Simz and I set trends/Don’t like liars/I hate fake friends,” when her older sister took her to rap at BBC’s Radio 1 Xtra . Her real breakthrough as Little Simz came much later, with 2018’s Grey Area, which was nominated for the U.K.’s prestigious Mercury Prize, then 2021’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert , which won it. She followed that with No Thank You , which rebuked the music industry she was by all-appearances thriving in as something much darker and more draining than it looked.

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