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What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

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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 wanted to represent a different decade, and I wanted someone who goes back further than me. I go back the furthest on this thing, I never really noticed that before. I'm going to have to fix that or I'm going to look really old.
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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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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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I fly like paper, get high like planes If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name
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I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people.
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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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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Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.
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The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.
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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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In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.
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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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Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.
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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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If music's a political place, I'm out.
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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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Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.
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If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.
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Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
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We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.
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