Lotus

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In the two and a half years since 2022’s <i>NO THANK YOU</i>, Little Simz attempted to write its follow-up four time, to no avail. From the outside, the London native was at the top of her game. Since 2021’s game-changing fourth album, <i>Sometimes I Might Be Introvert</i>, 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 album. The split left the rapper at a lo, 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, <i>Lotus</i>—named for the flower that thrives in muddy water. 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. .

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