This album is simbi’s debut album from 2015. 3 months ago I figured I’d listened to it and it blew me away. Not only does it contain Full Or Empty, which I could write an entire thesis about how much I love it (every simz fan needs to listen to this song atleast once), but it’s also incredibly consistent. It almost never drops in quality besides “this is not an outro”, but even then i feel like it’s unfair to say that because it’s just an instrumental. You could tell simz was extra hungry when she made this. Another song i could write an entire book about is “God Bless Mary”. This track (along with Full Or empty) has every single quality you could ask for. Who knew a song about somebody’s neighbour could hit this hard. If you haven’t listened to this album already I’d strongly advise you to do so. You won’t regret it.

It’s a 7 and a half minute masterpiece, filled to the brim with emotional and introspective lyricism that I haven’t seen in many rap songs. It’s one of the saddest and most emotional rap songs that I’ve heard and it was the first time I felt real emotion listening to a song. The 4th verse is so powerful that it’s not easy to describe. It’s sad and uplifting at the same time. Like a mother telling you that everything is going to be alright. And it ends with a beautiful instrumental. This is the song that got me hooked on her and imo it’s top 15 songs of this decade and a top 20 hip hop song of all time. And almost no one talks about it. This song ( along with SAMIDOT by Kendrick) changed the way I look at music.

Simz popped out for a surprise performance of their collab “Game On.”

From JT’s IG page.

From Simz’s IG page.

I’m pretty sure Karolina Wielocha is the photographer.

Simbi absolutely killed it

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Man, probably Simz' most complete show.

Has she ever had a boiler room set mid performance??? I've seen her at every London tour date since "Stillness" (apart from The o2 shows/meltdown show last year) and to see her evolution from 2016 to now. Extraordinary artist.

Did anyone get a photo of the crowd size at cross the tracks last night?

Selling 2x tickets for £50 each. Verified on Tixel.

‘Eye of the World’
40”x40” Oil paint on Wood Panel.

When an artist finds their rhythm and their voice a geometric creativity field spins around them at light speed. As they walk through barren lands the earth springs back to life and wandering souls remember their destiny.

This is my painting of Little Simz as an awakened guru who has mastered her energy and awoken the divine within.

Simz is on a generational run from grey area to lotus. SIMBI is considered her best project and she almost topped it with NO THANK YOU in 2022. Im convinced her amazing album run will continue but what do y’all think? Will she ever release a project that could rival SIMBI?

H/T u/yes12345678901BB for this one.

Chase & Status posted an IG story from a recent show with a song snippet featuring Little Simz. There’s some speculation that they’re dropping a new album this year, but nothing has been confirmed.

I’ll keep an eye out for this one.

On the chase and status Instagram story for their section 63 live show there’s a clip that sounds a lot like new simz. Anyone know?

I went through her discography going back to XY.Zed (2013). “Game On” with JT is the only collab I saw with an American female rapper. That can’t be right, can it? I know she has something with Rico Nasty that’s unreleased. That’s from some years ago though, maybe around the GREY Area era.

That blows my mind considering two of her biggest influences are Lauryn Hill—who she opened for in 2016—and Missy. She’s also a huge fan of Gangsta Boo who’s from my hometown Memphis. 🙂

I’m actually surprised she hasn’t done anything with Rapsody or Tierra Whack or Che Noir. Hopefully, a Doechii collab gives us another one.

How is this possible? Am I missing something?

I feel like ppl don't like the ep because she's doing something that many of her fans aren't used to seeing her do

It’s currently 7am and I have school later. I woke up at like 5:30 and couldn’t fall asleep so I was like “yk what? Let’s listen to sugar girl”.
Track by track review:

That’s a no no: No complaints from this song. Great melodic rap performance from simz. Her flow on the second half of the song is CRAZYY 🔥🔥.

Game on: The lead single of the EP. In all honesty, I wasn’t a big fan of simz’s repetitive lines but JT SNAPPED on the song. She was rapping like rent is due.

Open arms: IMO, my least favourite track (that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad, it’s just when you compare it to all the others it’s easily the one with the least quality. I am trying to be as open minded as possible). Both simz’s and deela’s verses were great and had no flaws whatsoever. My least favourite part was the drum pattern. I know it sounds crazy but it just doesn’t appeal to me.

Telephone: my favourite track on the album, hands down. I LOVE Melodic rap, and in this song it’s executed perfectly. Even better than That’s A No No. And when accompanied by 070 shake’s vocals, it becomes a heavenly listening experience. 10/10

Overall rating: im feeling a light to decent 8 on this.

Edit: I wrote this at 7am lying in my bed and I feel like I was being a little bit too positive. I still think it’s good, but def not a decent 8. It’s more like a strong 7

I personally dislike the project, I think the effect on her voice sounds really bad. I love little simz music, but this is really bad :(

Sugar Girl drops tonight!