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Little Simz - \\u201cAngel\\u201d from the 2022 album NO THANK YOU on Forever Living Originals.

With her latest single "Angel," London-based artist\\xa0Little Simz continues to pay tribute to her friend\\xa0Harry Uzoka, who was murdered in 2018.

"Harry listenin\\u2019 from Heaven on repeat/
He was backin\\u2019 it when nobody believed"

She previously wrote about Uzoka with her 2019 song "Wounds" off the album\\xa0GREY Area. As she told The Guardian at the time, "\\u201cI remember waking up, Googling, trying to find out as many details as I could and going to the studio in bits. I sat in the dark in tears and I didn\\u2019t go on socials to see everyone posting \\u2018RIP\\u2019 \\u2013 and because I didn\\u2019t do that, I was able to write \'Wounds.\'\\u201d

Today\'s Song of the Day not only finds Little Simz continuing to process her grief, but also struggling with the music industry, as she notes on the couplet:

"They don\\u2019t care if your mental is on the brink of somethin\\u2019 dark/
As long as your cuttin\\u2019 somebody\\u2019s payslip"

A ten-minute short film was released to accompany her latest LP\\xa0NO THANK YOU. Watch that below, along with her 2021\\xa0Live on KEXP at Home session.

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