Mercury Prize: Rapper Little Simz wins album of the year award
Her fourth album wins the prestigious award for best British or Irish record of the past 12 months. …
On Little Q, she raps from the perspective of her cousin, who was stabbed in the chest in south London. The moving I Love You / I Hate You, meanwhile, is addressed to the father who abandoned her when she was 11. “Never thought my parent would give me my first heartbreak,” she observes.