![]() When she thinks about that last burst of freedom before the pandemic, her mind takes her back to a changing room on the morning of her birthday. She and her producer, Inflo, had recently started work on the new album and she was celebrating turning 26. Photograph: Jameela Elfaki/The ObserverĪbout a year ago, Simz was in Los Angeles. In the hot seat: Little Simz wears top, trousers and corset, all by track top by ahluwalia.world hoops by Īnd sandals by .uk. But there are two Simz: the one that is by nature reticent and the Simz who wants to show you her universe. ![]() “I’m definitely not the greatest at opening up,” she says today. Yet from its overture, her fourth studio album reveals an interior world of cinematic proportions. When she talks, she is purposeful, precise, politely withholding. Simz, full name Simbiatu Ajikawo, doesn’t waste her words. “People think I’m rude, or antisocial, or awkward, because I’m not chatty,” she says. Still wearing full makeup from the shoot, Simz is swaddled in comfortable grey sweatpants and a black, shiny puffer jacket. The combination of closed cafés (England is still in lockdown) and persistent March drizzle has meant we’ve ended up in the car, an enormous 4x4 with TV screens built into the seats. The British-Nigerian rapper-singer-actor, 27, has spent the morning doing a photoshoot. ![]() I t’s a drab afternoon on an industrial estate in London and I’m sitting, somewhat awkwardly, in the back of a parked car with Little Simz.
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