Little Simz shares a video for the majestic, coruscating centerpiece of her widely celebrated album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, “I Love You, I Hate You,” directed by Jeremy Ngatho Cole. Mirroring the vulnerability and emotion Simz expresses on the track, the dreamlike video follows a young man and woman as they confront faces of the past and self-reflect through art. The video for “I Love You, I Hate You” follows the previous visual offerings for SIMBI tracks “Introvert,” “Woman” and the Obongjayar assisted “Point And Kill.”

“I Love You, I Hate You” covers such difficult material that Simz at first refused to write it. “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.”

The specter she didn’t want to talk about? Her absent father. “Is you a sperm donor or a Dad to me?” she asks, as a funky guitar riff gives way to vibrant strings and a moving choral climax. “My ego won’t fully allow me to say that I miss you” she confesses. “A woman who hasn’t confronted all her Daddy issues.” As palpable as her anger – and sorrow – are, it’s in working through her feelings Simz finds some sense of resolution. In the last verse she concludes, “I’m not forgiving for you, man, I’m forgiving for me.”

Little Simz
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Age 101

1. Introvert
2. Woman ft. Cleo Sol
3. Two Worlds Apart
4. I Love You, I Hate You
5. Little Q Pt 1 (Interlude)
6. Little Q Pt 2
7. Gems (Interlude)
8. Speed
9. Standing Ovation
10. I See You
11. The Rapper That Came to Tea (Interlude)
12. Rollin Stone
13. Protect My Energy
14. Never Make Promises (Interlude)
15. Point And Kill ft. Obongjayar
16. Fear No Man
17. The Garden (Interlude)
18. How Did You Get Here
19. Miss Understood

Little Simz
Live Dates

5/1 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
5/2 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
5/4 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
5/5 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
5/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Novo
5/15 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
5/17 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
5/19 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
5/21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Foundry
5/23 – Washington, DC @ The Fillmore
5/25 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall

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