Little Simz Gave It Everything She’s Got, and It Shows
British rapper discusses the creative leaps she made on her new album 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert': "Although we’re touching on deep stuff and I’m tackling a lot, there’s a lightheartedness to it"
"I was Nigerian before it was cool to be Nigerian,” says Little Simz, photographed in London in July 2021. "As I’m learning more about myself and where I come from, I’m wanting to continue to explore that. There’s magic in it — we come from royalty.”
Photograph by Karis Beaumont for Rolling Stone. Styling by Luci Ellis at the Wall Group. Hair by Lauraine Bailey. Makeup by Nibras.
Little Simz has just spent an afternoon stranded on the side of a road in London when she logs onto Zoom. You wouldn’t be able to tell from her demeanor, though — she seems palpably unbothered. “It was just a whole thing,” she says, explaining how her driver got a flat tire.
The 27-year-old rapper, born Simbiatu “Simbi” Ajikawo, speaks with clarity and calmness, like someone approaching their own private kind of zen. She makes music the same way. Her fourth studio album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, released earlier this month, is the result of a years-long quest for knowledge from an artist who’s laser-focused on uncovering her true self. It would take more than a little car trouble to shake her now.
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