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" I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that. "
Little Simz
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People
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" I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That's just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk. "
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" I want to be ambassador-like. I want to, you know, set examples, especially as a young black female. That, I think, is important, and I just want to be a bit of an example, you know. "
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Think
Black
" I could probably say one thing that I'm excited about is I definitely wanna be an entrepreneur and be a humanitarian and that stuff. "
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" I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it. "
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Desperate
Hungry
" Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story. "
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Look
Eyes
" I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society. "
Little Simz
Society
Well
Message
" I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company. "
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Company
House
Space
" I don't dress to impress; I've never been that person. "
Little Simz
Never
Person
Impress
" I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know? "
Little Simz
Know
Language
Loved
" I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens. "
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See
Independent
Myself
" I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me. "
Little Simz
Time
Same
Me
" I've always been the kid who's known what they wanted to do. "
Little Simz
Known
Kid
Been
" I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time. "
Little Simz
Everything
Life
Brother
" I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great. "
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Purpose
Always
Big
" I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too. "
Little Simz
Music
Feel
Feeling
" I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic. "
Little Simz
Soul
Influence
Jazz
" I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful. "
Little Simz
Women
Decision
King
" The whole point of an album is to understand the artist and enjoy the music - it's supposed to make you want to go to a concert to see them in the flesh and get the album on vinyl and be a part of everything. That's what I'm about. "
Little Simz
Music
Enjoy
Understand
" I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill. "
Little Simz
Hill
You
Song
" I'm not an 'out there' person if it's not on stage or if I'm not around people I'm most comfortable with. "
Little Simz
Person
Stage
Comfortable
" As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable. "
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Music
Only
Expression
" I just always want to be as transparent as possible. "
Little Simz
Always
Just
Possible
" I'm not easily satisfied with things. I always want to do better. I always want to improve. I always want to grow. "
Little Simz
Want
Always
Better
" Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever. "
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Like
Feel
Look
" When I write, I normally write anywhere that I can feel at peace, so if it's in my bedroom, if it's at the park, if it's by a lake somewhere, wherever I feel calm is where I like to write. "
Little Simz
Calm
Bedroom
Peace
" I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it. "
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People
True
Law
" My sisters and my mum taught me how to be a woman: the way they carry themselves, the way they talk to people, the way they know how to put their foot down. They're not having any nonsense from no one. I can see traces of that in me. "
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Me
People
Woman
" I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity. "
Little Simz
Mind
Heart
People
" Just because I'm British and I represent London to the core, that doesn't necessarily mean I have to stay there. "
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Core
London
Mean
" Singles are for people that want to chart - I'm measuring my success by how well I connect with people. "
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Well
Want
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