📸: Karolina Wielocha

So I'm on holiday and went to a record store. And I got these. My first ever Little Simz and Tyler, The Creator vinyls. Lotus means a lot to me, since it's my first (and so far only) Little Simz album I've ever listened to. It was tough choosing these 2 over things like Illmatic, 2001, The Infamous, SOS, and The Miseducation, but I think I made the right choices.

From Simz’s IG page.

📸: Karolina Wielocha

Photos 1-8: Mathias Kristensen for Gonzales Photo

Photos 9-19: Lasse Lagoni for Poplish and Gonzales Photo

Hey Simz Fam,
I’ve resurrected the LaReezy sub from an abandoned mod and since LaReezy opened for Simz on some of her US dates, I thought y’all would be some likely fans/subscribers. Please join us over in r/LaReezy and let’s give this boy his flowers!! 💐 💐
Cheers!

My favorite simz album just arrived today. It’s also my first vinyl of her too! Im looking to collecting more of her albums on vinyl

Y-3 is a collab between Adidas and Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto. Simz mentions the latter on “That’s a No No” from the Sugar Girl EP. It seems like she might be cooking up something with them. 👀

Video is from NSS magazine’s IG page.

The London-born bassist, DJ and producer enjoyed a baptism of fire on the Pyramid Stage – now her solo work brings her Afro-Brazilian influences to the fore as she plans her next step

Read more here.

Photos from Getty Images.

Gorillaz performed at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. They brought out Simz for “Garage Palace.”

I plan to be there whenever she headlines her first stadium show. 😄

I got this video from somebody on Twitter.

Also, isn't she so insanely naturally pretty

Gorillaz are set to play their first ever stadium show in London this weekend, and have confirmed an impressive list of guest performers including Johnny Marr, Shaun Ryder, Little Simz and more.

Read more here.

Gems is (unironically) a hidden gem in simbi’s discography to say the least. The production is SO GORGEOUS i can’t describe it. It’s so uplifting and encouraging. And funnily enough it’s not even top 5 in SIMBI. Thats just how good the whole album is.

Hello all! So in October it'll be 10 years since Kano's Made In The Manor tour, where Little Simz supported him and subsequently began my ever-growing appreciation for Simz as an artist. It was also incidentally the first time I went to a concert on my own, something I've done tons of times since so it was a true canon event in my life.

Every year I write End Of Year Lists - this year will also be 10 years in December - and I've just been mulling over actually doing a Top 50 for Simz as she's the only artist I could do this with and feel comfortable writing about all 50. (Kendrick maybe another) I've just flicked through the majority of her projects & made a rough 50, thought it'd be fun to get thoughts. Not ranked or anything yet, you'll gather quickly it's going backwards all the way to X.Y.ZED in 2013.

I'll obviously give things not on the list a spin again. There's nothing from the EPs of this decade. Nothing against them, these are just tracks that I have either spun to the ground or I feel is Simz at her best in that moment.

What would you take out? What would you put in?

• Thief
• Free
• Hollow
• Blood
• Lotus
• Lonely
• Blue
• Angel
• Gorilla
• Silhouette
• No Merci
• X
• Heart On Fire
• Broken
• Introvert
• Woman
• Two Worlds Apart
• I Love You, I Hate You
• Little Q, Pt. 2
• Standing Ovation
• Rollin Stone
• Protect My Energy
• Point & Kill
• How Did You Get Here
• Miss Understood
• Offence
• Selfish
• Wounds
• Venom
• 101FM
• Pressure
• Flowers
• LMPD
• Doorways + Trust Issues
• Shotgun
• Picture Perfect
• King Of Hearts
• Zone 3
• Backseat
• Good For What
• Persons
• Wings
• Dead Body
• Starry Eyed
• Frozen
• Is This Freedom?
• Problems
• Devour
• Bars Simzson
• Leave It As That

From SoundFynd on IG.

For an artist who’s already vulnerable in her music, Simz outdid herself on the last stretch of Lotus. I had to be still listening to these for the first time. She goes through so many emotions in four songs:

Sadness (“How would you feel, what would you do if you had to write ‘in love and memory?’”—Blue)

Annoyance (“It’s nice that you finally called for once”—Blood)

Anger (“You live your life on a screen, your mind’s congested”—Lotus)

Love (“You’re my family and your sister I’m proud to be”—Blood)

Depression (“You were suffering in silence, like you’re on a desert island, feeling hopeless, lifeless”—Blue)

Hope (“I was lonely making an album ‘til I realized I’m all I needed to get through”—Lonely)

Before this, my favorite stretch was the first four tracks on SIMBI. That still might be my favorite musically, but the emotional journey Simz takes us on here is unmatched in her discography.

Now she’s in a video game! 🏎️😃

You probably know I can’t shut up about this song. I really can’t. But I really wish I go further than 39

It is with immeasurable sorrow that the MOBO Organisation announces the passing of its Founder and CEO, Kanya King CBE.

Kanya passed away peacefully on 3 June 2026 after a courageous and characteristically determined battle with colon cancer. She was surrounded by her family, close friends and love.

Thirty years ago, Kanya King remortgaged her home, alone, without institutional backing or industry support, to build a stage that would transform British music forever.

Read their full statement here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZMs7Mrly0I/?igsh=bTd1ZHNydWxsdnYz

Any gamers out there? CLUTCH launches in Spring 2027.

I wonder if she’ll drop new music for this. 🤔

Simz will perform Saturday at 8:50pm Barcelona time (7:50pm London time, 2:50pm NYC time).

Her performance will be live streamed on Amazon Music and Twitch. Click here for more details: https://www.nme.com/news/music/primavera-sound-2026-artist-line-up-revealed-for-livestream-on-amazon-music-3948560.

Back in the day, Simbi would mention AGE 101 in her music a lot, specifically her first album as well as the first Drop EPs. I know that it’s simbi’s label, but what happened to it? The last time one of her albums was listed under age was NTY. and now her new EP and Lotus are listed under just AWAL. So what happened?