Little Sims has done everything it should. She works hard, looks out for her own business, and has built a fan base with her string of critically acclaimed releases. When the time comes, she fires a laser and creates a bold, thematic album with a distinct arc. Here’s the pros and cons of the coveted Mercury Prize she picked up in October. There were other honors. She smiled and said, “Thank you,” when she won Best New Artist at her February BRIT Awards. She showed up at her cover shoot, wore designer clothes on her red carpet, and chatted at the afterparty. She stuck to the independent and appreciated its value to her. That was the case even when her distributor AWAL (an acronym for Artists Without a Label) was sold to Sony Music for her $430 million. She took the pain of canceling her US show because the numbers didn’t add up. But now she’s had enough.upon No, thanks She hides her fanfare, goes back to rap basics, and blows up the industry she claims to have made her, but really leaves her exhausted. In doing so, she adds her voice to a growing chorus of black British artists calling for her compensation.
When Saul Williams released his blistering “List of Demands” in 2004, chugging beats and his outraged rhetoric were met with anger. Sims delivers the same rage, but her tack is different.From the drum patter and looping coon that opens on the album “Angel,” you can be forgiven for expecting lullabies and love songs. But her purpose is suit-trained, and Simz relents. ’” she rapped in a tight volley, asking, “Did I stutter?” Seeing how far her fame and the trappings it deserves can take art from its purpose, she seems to have found the answer to her question that controlled those bearing Mercury. sometimes i can be an introvert: “Are you Sims the artist or are you a Simbi person?” “You don’t even recognize who you’re becoming/They don’t shit as long as the gravy train runs,” she coolly spits on “Heart on Fire,” before her Disillusionment was distilled into the image of an industry party where the music was deafened by the din of people talking in stores.