There are all these people on the ground doing real work: the teachers, the healers, the preachers. “But I also wanted to pose the question: Why is legacy important? I want to be a legend, but sometimes I don’t know why.
I know I am,” she recently said in an interview. Honestly, respectfully, I think I’m very very talented. But throughout, Simz wonders exactly why she wants to “make it,” occasionally doubles back and casts doubt on herself and her own abilities. It’s clear that Simz wants to be an important voice, and in many ways she’s succeeded. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert jumps around from idea to idea with the confidence of someone who has a lot of ambition. She expresses her alternating frustration and elation with the creative process. She puffs herself up a bit, understandably, and she also pays tribute to the community that raised her and the long lineage of those that came before her. On her new album, Simz takes stock of the ways her desire to be an artist has shaped her life - how it’s left her feeling disconnected but also invigorated. Introvert is heady and dense and restless - a masterwork, one might say, the definitive document of the musician also known as Simbiatu Abisola Abiola Ajikawo.
On her fourth full-length, Simz has made her most accomplished album to date. Indeed, with a decade under her belt, Simz has made music that is consistently surprising and rewarding - she deserves applause. “I think I need a standing ovation/ Over 10 years in the game, I’m impatient.” So says Little Simz halfway through her new album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.
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