*WINNER* Mercury Prize 2022 Congratulations Little Simz finally winning the Prize after previously not getting it for GREY Area. A album from beginning to end full of treasures.
It’s an absolute disgrace that in the US, rappers get praise and millions from all corners for doing the bare minimum right now like Jack Harlow and Lil Baby’s new albums that take no risks whatsoever and is some of the most boring music of the year whereas in the UK artists like Simz, and Dave make actual brilliant work, don’t get recognition at all from the Grammys, have way less sales, and when they perform on UK shows the comments are full of people discrediting them for no reason other than not liking the genre of music or straight up racism
Best album of the year no question. Remember hearing it the week it came out and immediately playing it for my gf that evening because I knew it was so special and she would be as obsessed as I was. And you just know everyone there last night loved the album and Little Simz, they were all on their feet cheering so loud. I haven't seen such an effusive affirmation from those in the room of a Mercury decision in years. Congrats Little Simz, a perfect album
I fucking hate these comments she can’t sing ! She has admitted herself she’s not great but its part of what she wants to include and if you know her back catalogue of music and the fact that this is her fourth album trust me she truly deserves it! Her live performances are amazing this probably didn’t show her in the right light for all those people who don’t know who she is now wondering why? Go listen and find out why! She is amazing, BBC radio 6 and Jools Holland introduced me to her, I then went to see her live and OMG I was not disappointed. She was fantastic. I’ve seen her and Sam Fender in the space of 12 months he also was brilliant…tough choice to make but they got it right !!!! Well done mercury 🎉
@@starlightsign8666 How many sold out shows have you performed at?!? How many shows have you headlined? How many TV shows have you starred in. Your a Hater!! Straight facts!! Not saying its a bad thing As people like you encourage the failed to succeed!! Good work Keep it up
Really wanted her to win & happy she did but this track is so boastful & worthy. When artists get to the top of the ladder maybe they feel like they have to sing about their stratospheric rise in a preachy lecture? It's bugging me so much I'm turning the radio down!
Clearly that is a $million question that 95% of the British population could not answer but could hazard a very good guess. Neither could they answer "how did it come to this?" We once thought "The Smiths" were depressing but by todays standards even they bring a joy. There is more great music about today than ever but it seems Mercury hasn't found it or know where to look.
This woman won with the highest rated album by critics of the 2020s decade so far and brought it out in the same week as arguably the two biggest artists in the world right now, Kanye West and Drake and blew them out of the water, just say it isn’t your type of music instead of just being ignorant, out of interest who should’ve won this award instead of her because she was an absolute shoo in for this?
@@rsqyoung answer my question instead of trying to convince me that you know more about music than professional music critics when you won’t even say who makes this great music you speak of 😂
@@barry4649 For instance one of the age old questions is "Who is the greatest guitarist of all time". The answer is the one you like most! Great guitarists have different styles and levels of inventiveness etc etc. There isn't a best or greatest and therein lies the answer to these stupid awards. They are only a self congratulatory marketing excercise for the industry driven by box tickers. Critics have their opinion and just like rsoles everyone has got at least one.
@@rsqyoung yes but if you combine the opinions of all critics on all albums whatever has the highest average rating must be a great album in at least the yes of a lot of people in all fairness
@@Autumnrainfall99 Yep. Utter waste of time. They should change the category to best popular album, it’s shameful that this won compared to some of the more obscure music being made by unrecognised artists. Shameful stuff.
Fat L Smoney. The craftsmanship that goes into her words is next level and the production quality of this album is of incredibly high. Music doesn't require speed or a impressive singing voice, Simz' cadence and thought behind her words alone puts her in the top tier of artists in the UK right now. Completely right decision
@@ethanbennett4653 If you think her lyrics are impressive you probably think Corrie is basically Shakespeare. That Tinchy Strider song about the Chuckle Brothers had more going for it
@@Smoneey I can only assume then you have not consumed of her work to make an informed opinion. To say that her work is not at it's basis thoughtful and insightful is naïve. I suggest that you listen to her song Miss Understood, the lyrics are pretty powerful
I simply cannot bear the mid-Atlantic estuary English accent every UK rapper of the last 20 years seems to adopt. It reminds me of David Frost in the 70s. It's really cheesy. No wonder Americans never buy British hip hop.
@@stretchmorgan your right that American hip hop just ignores UK hip hop and it’s horrible because right now the UK scene is a million times better, if you look at US rappers to blow up in the last 5 years compared to the UK, the talent in the UK is at a different level, that’s why the biggest rappers now are mostly great rappers from years ago like Kanye, Kendrick and Drake or industry plants like Jack Harlow and Lil Baby who are so boring it’s a joke, Dave, J Hus and Little Simz should have Grammys by now
@@barry4649 bad take. US is way better right now. And the greatest rappers arent from a few years ago. Jack Harlow is not great. Drake is not great. Lil Baby is not great. It isnt about which rappers are the most popular. You have to look at the underground. The underground in the us is one of the best its ever been with Griselda Records running it. Artists like Westside Gunn, Conway, Benny The Butcher, Boldy James, stove god cooks, mach hommy, mavi, mike, Navy Blue, Billy Woods (Armand Hammer), Quelle Chris, Roc Marciano, Blu, Freddie Gibbs, Jpegmafia, Denzel Curry, Ka, Action Bronson. Producers like madlib, alchemist, camouflage monk, daringer, Conductor Williams. Some of the ones i named arent necessarily underground but also arent really mainstream. And the fact that i left out a ton of amazing mainstream acts like Kendrick, Tyler The Creator, Joey Badass, Pusha T etc. says enough. Dont get me wrong i love UK hiphop. I listen to a lot of Little Simz and Loyle Carner for example. Lord Apex is also nice. But its definitely not as stacked as the US right now.
I hear this "song" several times a day where I work and it sounds like when you had to read in front of the class and there was always one kid with a droning voice trying to get their bit done as quick as possible. I accept as I get older I will inevitably find new music less desirable than from my hay days but this is drivel.
@@franciscaonyema5713 I can assure you millions of people will be glad they never hear this fucking noise and they will be grateful for it. How anyone can call this music I just don't know. Thank goodness I was young in the times when we had good pop music.
@@JC20XX music is when combination of tunes is composed or performed by someone by using one or a group of musical instruments and/or a person's voice. TUNE is a necessary element. If you just or mostly speak, this can be very poetic or moving but it is not music. I am not saying it is bad. It is not music
*WINNER*
Mercury Prize 2022
Congratulations Little Simz finally winning the Prize after previously not getting it for GREY Area. A album from beginning to end full of treasures.
Amazing album my list. Top one Last year album
I think Dave had a better album in 2019 tbf but this year if they gave it to anything else it’d be a Macklemore Kendrick Lamar situation
This song touches me. It literally moves my soul. Great performance! Very motivational lyrics.
So authentic, fresh, bold and looks stunning ❤
Beautiful song a deserved winner
Fantastic job! Thanks for my friend Lil Simz a Mercury award!
It’s an absolute disgrace that in the US, rappers get praise and millions from all corners for doing the bare minimum right now like Jack Harlow and Lil Baby’s new albums that take no risks whatsoever and is some of the most boring music of the year whereas in the UK artists like Simz, and Dave make actual brilliant work, don’t get recognition at all from the Grammys, have way less sales, and when they perform on UK shows the comments are full of people discrediting them for no reason other than not liking the genre of music or straight up racism
You do realise she literally just won the Mercury Prize, the award show this performance was recorded at?
Best album of the year no question. Remember hearing it the week it came out and immediately playing it for my gf that evening because I knew it was so special and she would be as obsessed as I was. And you just know everyone there last night loved the album and Little Simz, they were all on their feet cheering so loud. I haven't seen such an effusive affirmation from those in the room of a Mercury decision in years. Congrats Little Simz, a perfect album
God just the best artist (and song) in the world 1000000% deserved
She always delivers 🙌
Yes she delivers CRAP shes a rapper sorry "crapper "
Even the Postman doesn't deliver today. They are going on strike too.
@@markthoughtswithukrainemas2072 old man
@@gregorboyd No just have eyes
OK, I want a chicken tandoori from Uber Eats.
The best song on SIMBI 💛
Oh Simbi, the gift this song is❤️❤️❤️🤲
Little Simz albums are absolute fire
the queen!
Listen to her words. Hear what she is saying.
WHAT A STAR ⭐️
This is so good live
I'm here after the collab with RM and omg I can see why he chose you. Kindred spirits creatively.
LOVE Simz! Go girl! xxx
Magnificent
I love Simbi
Love this song regards mike from the band the pink hurts seaside fishing village town UA-cam ❤
Simz ❤️
Legend ❤️
Well deserved ❤
Just listen to the album then comment.
Nice song 👍
I fucking hate these comments she can’t sing ! She has admitted herself she’s not great but its part of what she wants to include and if you know her back catalogue of music and the fact that this is her fourth album trust me she truly deserves it! Her live performances are amazing this probably didn’t show her in the right light for all those people who don’t know who she is now wondering why? Go listen and find out why! She is amazing, BBC radio 6 and Jools Holland introduced me to her, I then went to see her live and OMG I was not disappointed. She was fantastic. I’ve seen her and Sam Fender in the space of 12 months he also was brilliant…tough choice to make but they got it right !!!! Well done mercury 🎉
Out of tune…out of time..
@@starlightsign8666 How many sold out shows have you performed at?!? How many shows have you headlined? How many TV shows have you starred in.
Your a Hater!! Straight facts!!
Not saying its a bad thing
As people like you encourage the failed to succeed!!
Good work
Keep it up
@@starlightsign8666 go watch her perform Venom on COLORS SHOW
@@starlightsign8666 hush you are showing yourself up
goat.
running the fucking game right now
I TOOK THE WOoOoOoOoOCK!
Damn, dudes in comments are awful
They’re mad in the comments 😂 Black people will always have more cultural impact regardless of how you feel
YES ! 😍
the coldest. sensational body of work 💫😎
Great job Simz!
an artist who appears only every decade
isn't that the truth
😂
Box ☑️
Simz dope but 2:00 suggests she could get singing lessons from Kojey
Bsiy suh siya nap
Yeah this is actually alright.
Not a jot on Tokio Myers
Really wanted her to win & happy she did but this track is so boastful & worthy. When artists get to the top of the ladder maybe they feel like they have to sing about their stratospheric rise in a preachy lecture? It's bugging me so much I'm turning the radio down!
Hate to devide colour but seeing as you chose too. A good majority of white people have to work twice as hard too
Clearly that is a $million question that 95% of the British population could not answer but could hazard a very good guess. Neither could they answer "how did it come to this?" We once thought "The Smiths" were depressing but by todays standards even they bring a joy.
There is more great music about today than ever but it seems Mercury hasn't found it or know where to look.
they should get you on the board ralph!
@@invalide I dont think so, somehow, , with ginger hair, and probably male 😂, I do not tick any of the qualifing boxes, only the wrong uns.
This woman won with the highest rated album by critics of the 2020s decade so far and brought it out in the same week as arguably the two biggest artists in the world right now, Kanye West and Drake and blew them out of the water, just say it isn’t your type of music instead of just being ignorant, out of interest who should’ve won this award instead of her because she was an absolute shoo in for this?
@@barry4649 Ah, Critics and Awards..... and therein lies the problem.
@@rsqyoung answer my question instead of trying to convince me that you know more about music than professional music critics when you won’t even say who makes this great music you speak of 😂
Nova Twins should have won. This is awful.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.... Wow, just no
Came out of curiosity having seen the BBC article. Is this the best of British? It’s dreadful!
That'll be the headliner no doubt for Glastonbury £335+£5 booking fee for the lefty liberal social elites.
Highest rated album by critics of the decade so far in all music, the live performance here is nothing special but her album is fantastic
@@barry4649 For instance one of the age old questions is "Who is the greatest guitarist of all time". The answer is the one you like most! Great guitarists have different styles and levels of inventiveness etc etc.
There isn't a best or greatest and therein lies the answer to these stupid awards. They are only a self congratulatory marketing excercise for the industry driven by box tickers.
Critics have their opinion and just like rsoles everyone has got at least one.
@@rsqyoung yes but if you combine the opinions of all critics on all albums whatever has the highest average rating must be a great album in at least the yes of a lot of people in all fairness
@@barry4649 Yes I think I get it, I will now look at the European Song Contest in a new light along with the Christmas No1.
Basic fast talking is apparently the best british album? Come on lads
Have you heard the album
@@Autumnrainfall99 Yep. Utter waste of time. They should change the category to best popular album, it’s shameful that this won compared to some of the more obscure music being made by unrecognised artists. Shameful stuff.
Fat L Smoney. The craftsmanship that goes into her words is next level and the production quality of this album is of incredibly high. Music doesn't require speed or a impressive singing voice, Simz' cadence and thought behind her words alone puts her in the top tier of artists in the UK right now. Completely right decision
@@ethanbennett4653 If you think her lyrics are impressive you probably think Corrie is basically Shakespeare. That Tinchy Strider song about the Chuckle Brothers had more going for it
@@Smoneey I can only assume then you have not consumed of her work to make an informed opinion. To say that her work is not at it's basis thoughtful and insightful is naïve. I suggest that you listen to her song Miss Understood, the lyrics are pretty powerful
I simply cannot bear the mid-Atlantic estuary English accent every UK rapper of the last 20 years seems to adopt. It reminds me of David Frost in the 70s. It's really cheesy. No wonder Americans never buy British hip hop.
Its her fucking accent. What you want her to do? Pretend?
@@no-nr6de It sounds like an affectation. Britains love American hip hop. American hip hop doesn't love them back. It's sad to see.
@@stretchmorgan your right that American hip hop just ignores UK hip hop and it’s horrible because right now the UK scene is a million times better, if you look at US rappers to blow up in the last 5 years compared to the UK, the talent in the UK is at a different level, that’s why the biggest rappers now are mostly great rappers from years ago like Kanye, Kendrick and Drake or industry plants like Jack Harlow and Lil Baby who are so boring it’s a joke, Dave, J Hus and Little Simz should have Grammys by now
@@stretchmorgan hiphop lovers will appreciate it. And thats what its all about.
@@barry4649 bad take. US is way better right now. And the greatest rappers arent from a few years ago. Jack Harlow is not great. Drake is not great. Lil Baby is not great. It isnt about which rappers are the most popular.
You have to look at the underground. The underground in the us is one of the best its ever been with Griselda Records running it.
Artists like Westside Gunn, Conway, Benny The Butcher, Boldy James, stove god cooks, mach hommy, mavi, mike, Navy Blue, Billy Woods (Armand Hammer), Quelle Chris, Roc Marciano, Blu, Freddie Gibbs, Jpegmafia, Denzel Curry, Ka, Action Bronson. Producers like madlib, alchemist, camouflage monk, daringer, Conductor Williams.
Some of the ones i named arent necessarily underground but also arent really mainstream. And the fact that i left out a ton of amazing mainstream acts like Kendrick, Tyler The Creator, Joey Badass, Pusha T etc. says enough.
Dont get me wrong i love UK hiphop. I listen to a lot of Little Simz and Loyle Carner for example. Lord Apex is also nice. But its definitely not as stacked as the US right now.
I hear this "song" several times a day where I work and it sounds like when you had to read in front of the class and there was always one kid with a droning voice trying to get their bit done as quick as possible. I accept as I get older I will inevitably find new music less desirable than from my hay days but this is drivel.
What the hell is that? What a fucking din. Some times it pays to be deaf.
Be deaf
@@franciscaonyema5713 I can assure you millions of people will be glad they never hear this fucking noise and they will be grateful for it. How anyone can call this music I just don't know. Thank goodness I was young in the times when we had good pop music.
So who actully is singing here? It's not her really... It's mostly spoken word but not music.
Not _music_? What does that even mean?
You mean crap
Pipe. Down
She’s rapping, ever heard of that…?
@@JC20XX music is when combination of tunes is composed or performed by someone by using one or a group of musical instruments and/or a person's voice. TUNE is a necessary element. If you just or mostly speak, this can be very poetic or moving but it is not music. I am not saying it is bad. It is not music