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Lady Sovereign: Cargo, London

Sophie Heawood, The Guardian, 30 March 2005

THE PROBLEM with turning your life into your career is that you never get a day off. This irony dawns on Lady Sovereign tonight, as the nation's newest street-chic mascot takes to the stage to begin rapping about herself, only to realise that this has become her job — and it's a bank holiday weekend. "And I've got to do this tomorrow too," she grins confusedly.

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