Artist:
Little Simz
Genre:
Hip-Hop/Rap
Total Time:
49:49
Record Label:
Forever Living Originals
AWAL
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 6, 2025
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Little Simz
Genre:
Hip-Hop/Rap
Total Time:
49:49
Record Label:
Forever Living Originals
AWAL
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 6, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Product Description: In the two and a half years since 2022’s NO THANK YOU, Little Simz attempted to write its follow-up four times, to no avail. From the outside, the London native was at the top of her game. Since 2021’s game-changing fourth album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, she’d won a Mercury Prize, owned the Glastonbury stage, and earned a spot among the power players of UK rap. But privately, her personal life was imploding. In 2025, word spread of the lawsuit Simz had filed against Inflo, the childhood friend and longtime collaborator who’d produced her last three albums, for allegedly failing to repay a 1.7-million-pound loan. The betrayal left the rapper at a loss, as she recounts on “Lonely”: “Sitting in the studio with my head in my hands/Thinking what am I to do with this music I can’t write?”
From this turmoil, the 31-year-old musician arrived at a breakthrough that manifests on her sixth album, Lotus—named for the flower that thrives in muddy waters. Here Simz pulls no punches on the topic of her former friend, snarling her way through the bluesy opener “Thief” (“This person I’ve known my whole life, coming like the devil in disguise”) and the eerie “Flood,” produced by Miles Clinton James with cameos from Nigerian British pop star Obongjayar and South Africa’s Moonchild Sanelly.
But the mood lifts on tracks like “Young,” a bit of post-punk method rapping on being dumb, broke, and alive (“A bottle of Rio and some chicken and chips/In my fuck-me-up pumps and my Winehouse quiff”), and on “Free,” a jazzy boom-bap meditation on love versus fear, on which Simz reaches a cathartic conclusion: “Love is every time I put pen to the page.”
From this turmoil, the 31-year-old musician arrived at a breakthrough that manifests on her sixth album, Lotus—named for the flower that thrives in muddy waters. Here Simz pulls no punches on the topic of her former friend, snarling her way through the bluesy opener “Thief” (“This person I’ve known my whole life, coming like the devil in disguise”) and the eerie “Flood,” produced by Miles Clinton James with cameos from Nigerian British pop star Obongjayar and South Africa’s Moonchild Sanelly.
But the mood lifts on tracks like “Young,” a bit of post-punk method rapping on being dumb, broke, and alive (“A bottle of Rio and some chicken and chips/In my fuck-me-up pumps and my Winehouse quiff”), and on “Free,” a jazzy boom-bap meditation on love versus fear, on which Simz reaches a cathartic conclusion: “Love is every time I put pen to the page.”
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Thief
(04:00)
2 . Flood Little Simz feat. Obongjayar & Moonchild Sanelly (02:48)
3 . Young (02:50)
4 . Only Little Simz feat. Lydia Kitto (03:36)
5 . Free (03:36)
6 . Peace Little Simz feat. Moses Sumney & Miraa May (04:28)
7 . Hollow (02:55)
8 . Lion Little Simz feat. Obongjayar (02:58)
9 . Enough Little Simz feat. yukimi (03:02)
10 . Blood Little Simz feat. Wretch 32 .& Cashh (04:28)
11 . Lotus Little Simz feat. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussef Dayes (06:36)
12 . Lonely (04:26)
13 .Blue Little Simz feat. Sampha (04:14)
2 . Flood Little Simz feat. Obongjayar & Moonchild Sanelly (02:48)
3 . Young (02:50)
4 . Only Little Simz feat. Lydia Kitto (03:36)
5 . Free (03:36)
6 . Peace Little Simz feat. Moses Sumney & Miraa May (04:28)
7 . Hollow (02:55)
8 . Lion Little Simz feat. Obongjayar (02:58)
9 . Enough Little Simz feat. yukimi (03:02)
10 . Blood Little Simz feat. Wretch 32 .& Cashh (04:28)
11 . Lotus Little Simz feat. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussef Dayes (06:36)
12 . Lonely (04:26)
13 .Blue Little Simz feat. Sampha (04:14)
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