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Little Simz on breakthroughs, betrayal and becoming one of the UK’s best-ever rappers: ‘I don’t want to shy away from how I feel’

Critics’ favourite and curator of this month’s Meltdown festival, the British artist is flying high. But a nasty legal battle with her closest collaborator and a crisis of confidence left her close to calling it quits. Instead, she put it all on the new album

It’s an unseasonably warm spring afternoon and sunlight is beaming through the floor-to-ceiling windows of a north London photo studio. When I arrive, Little Simz is out on the balcony. Wearing chunky sunglasses, a skirt and comfy cardigan, she sits on a chair with her back to the sun, eyes on the horizon, and pulls her legs up, wrapping her arms around her knees in a defensive position that’s verging on foetal.

It’s curious body language for an artist at the top of her game. At 31, Simz is looking out at a city she can justifiably claim to have conquered since emerging as a teenage rapper more than a decade ago. But that’s not where she’s at right now. “I genuinely felt like I could disappoint everyone,” Simz says when I ask about the making of her sixth album, Lotus. She gives an impression of what she said to her team at the start of the process. “Sorry, everyone, this could be a big waste of your time, and if it is, I’m truly sorry, but I’m just not confident right now.” The crisis felt terminal, Simz tells me.

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