UK rapper Little Simz has released her new single ‘I Hate You, I Love You’ ahead of her forthcoming studio album ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert‘.
‘’I Hate You, I Love You’ is the fourth single to be released from Little Simz’s upcoming new LP – her fourth album. Simz has also released the tracks ‘Introvert’, ‘Woman’ and ‘Rollin Stone’. Mxdwn covered the release of ‘Rollin Stone’ back in June, which you can read here.
‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert‘, which is set to be released September 3rd, is the artists first LP since 2019’s critically acclaimed ‘‘Grey Area’. The 19-tracks consist of the unique spoken-word interludes, which Simz has grown to be known for on the hip hop scene. If her new single and those already released are anything to go by, then great things can be expected from the upcoming album.
‘I Hate You, I Love You’ is tied together by the rappers personal and raw bars which address her absent father. It has been revealed that this is a topic she was initially adamant not to open up about. However, in the track Simz can be seen rapping lines such as “never thought my parent would give me my first heartbreak”. The deeply sensitive and honest tracks are what makes Little Simz a stand out artist in the UK and worldwide. The artist took to Instagram to comment that ‘I Hate You, I Love You’ “wasn’t an easy one to write” but that she is “grateful to be able to share this one with you all”.
In another statement about the single, Little Simz commented that “Flo asked me, what do you love and what do you hate? I knew the answer immediately, but I was adamant I didn’t want to talk about it. Eventually I wrote it to placate him, but I had no idea that it would become one of the most important songs on the record”.
The appropriately titled new album, featuring ‘I Hate You, I Love You’, consists narratively of Little Simz opening up as an artist defying the extroversion that is expected in the music industry. The rapper opened up about this back in April whilst speaking to The Observer. Concerning the forthcoming album, ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’, Little Simz explained:
“I wanted to just let people know like, yo, I’m actually this way inclined…being this introverted person that has all these crazy thoughts and ideas and theories in my head and not always feeling like I’m able to express it if it’s not through my art”
“I’m just very to myself and I didn’t know how to really navigate that, especially coming in this industry where you’re expected to have this extroverted persona all the time”.
‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ is set to come out on September 3. Until then, you can listen to ‘I Hate You, I Love You’ below.
