The Ones: Ivorian Doll’s “Body Bag”
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Ivorian Doll - “Body Bag”
On her breakout single, “Rumours,” the UK rapper Ivorian Doll introduced her charismatic personality. Charisma can be hard to find in drill since the subgenre relies on too cool posturing. Yet, what made Brooklyn rappers like Pop Smoke and Fivio Foreign rise above the rest was their ability to splash goofiness into bleak scenarios, and that’s what Ivorian Doll has going for her, too. Ivorian Doll’s new single “Body Bag” is a cold standard UK drill rap song brought to life with a music video. A heartless verse like, “I don’t fuck around with no dickhead gyal who talk a bag of shit pon road/Walking round in your big drip but I heard that shit’s on loan,” becomes memorable when you watch her spit from inside a life sized Barbie style box, surrounded by disemebered doll parts—the Nicki Minaj comparisons will be inevitable. Regardless of which drill scene you prefer—Chicago, Brooklyn, or London—Ivorian Doll deserves to be in the conversation.
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Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
