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If music's a political place, I'm out.
M.I.A.
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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Ventura County
California
Mathangi Arulpragasam
Maya 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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Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.
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I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.
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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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I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.
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You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.
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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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In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.
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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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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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I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos. They funnel me through, Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?
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What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
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That's what I miss, being a real human.
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I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.
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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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It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.
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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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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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