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Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Mathangi Arulpragasam
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I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.
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Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.
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Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.
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By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.
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My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.
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There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.
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When mayors get together they probably have better conversations and have better notes to share about running different cities, and just do what suits. Basically, like when you combine all the religions and take the best bits, you should be able to combine all the cities and take the best bits, the information, the tried and tested things.
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When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name.
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I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
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In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.
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Whoever's inside is inside whoever's out is out.
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Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to comment on something, and then suddenly you were questioned and told, You can't touch that now because you're a pop star.
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It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.
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That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.
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With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
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I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.
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Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
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Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.
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I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.
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