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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Soraya Gaied Chortane

Your Friday night playlist curated by east London rap star Ivorian Doll

According to Vanessa Mahi, aka Ivorian Doll, life in your mid-twenties can be scary. Leaving home, cooking, cleaning, adulting (bleagh). But things get better, her life she says “changed after [she] turned 25.”

“I just got to a phase where I stopped forcing things because I feel like sometimes when you want something too much, it takes longer to come. The last two years have been kind of stressful for me, things weren’t going the way I wanted them to go but ever since my birthday in December, I’ve been really grateful every single day and I haven’t been sad,” she tells me. “I don’t know. I think it’s like a good luck 25 thing.”

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