M.I.A.

Released: September 9, 2016

Featuring: Dexta Daps

Songwriter: David Harrisingh Craig Harrisingh Louis Grandison M.I.A.

Producer: DASECA Productions ADP

[Hook: Dexta Daps]
I'm gonna treat ya like my best friend
I'm gonna treat ya like my best friend

[Verse 1: M.I.A.]
There ain't nothin' to it
With a friend I keep it cool with
Love it, we've been through it
Sticking like glue, now chew it
Bad girls, hands up
Ride or die and we feel it
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
If you can't then screw it

[Pre-Chorus: M.I.A.]
Gonna be your best friend
Gonna make that shit trend
I'm gonna be your foreign friend
All the way to the end

[Hook : Dexta Daps]
I'ma gonna treat ya like my best friend
I'ma need ya like your best bless dem
I'ma gonna treat ya like my best friend
Go bes-go bes-go best-go best friend
Go best friend
I'ma squeeze you like your best friend

[Verse 2: M.I.A.]
You can be my best friend
You know to much to be a foe
You were there from before
In the days when I had no doe
Break bread, watch Breaking Bad
Always there when I break up bad
In bed feeling so sad
You were always there as a comrade
I know you think like me
Life ain’t easy for the people like we
Say life’s like a box of chocolates
We say who packed it do you feel me
What you do is none of my business
But I want you to make me a witness
Want to witness the greatness
Cause we best friends through health and sickness

[Pre-Chorus: M.I.A.]
Gonna be your best friend
Gonna make that shit trend
I'm gonna be your foreign friend
All the way to the end

[Hook: Dexta Daps]
I’m gonna treat ya like my best friend
I’m gonna treat ya like my best friend

[Bridge: M.I.A. and Dexta Daps]
(You can be my foreign friend yea yea
You can be my foreign friend)
I said as a refugee, you know
Where we come from, we get out our tent
Then we climb over the fence
We don't wanna cause an offence
Then we get a Benz, flat screen tv, Then we pay rent
Then we think we made it
Then we be your foreign friend

[Verse 3: M.I.A.]
Best friend can’t condemn
If you good for you I’ll bend
Partner defend to the end
All people depend on a friend
There is nothing to it
With a friend I keep it cool with
Fuck it we’ve been through it
We’re sticking like glue now chew it
Bad girls hands up
Ride or die and we feel it
Pull me closer if you think we can hang
If you can’t screw it

[Pre-Chorus: M.I.A.]
Gonna be your best friend
Gonna make that shit trend
I'm gonna be your foreign friend
All the way to the end

[Hook: Dexta Daps and M.I.A.]
Gonna be your best friend
Gonna make that shit trend
I’m gonna be your be your foreign friend all the way to the end
I’m gonna treat ya like my best friend
Cause me need ya like your best, best friend
I’m gonna treat ya like my best friend
Then I’m gonna gonna be your best friend
Then I’m gonna, gonna make that shit trend
Then I’m gonna be living in your ends
Cause me and you hanging it could be godsend
Go best friend
You could be my foreign friend yeah yeah
You could be my foreign friend
Cum dung yuh ave t cum dung again

One of the most musically-diverse and perplexing artists of the 2000s, Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam is arguably the decade’s best representation of Hip-Hop in its truest form and artistry in its broadest, most diverse format. Her lyrics are as political as Public Enemy, her sound is more eclectic than Stankonia-era Outkast, and she is as aesthetically-driven as Kanye West.

The road that M.I.A. was forced to travel to international stardom was not an easy one. Born on July 18th, 1975 in Hounslow, West London to Sri-Lankan Tamil immigrants, she moved to her parents' homeland when she was only six months old. However, it was the Sri Lankan Civil War which came to shape her childhood. During her formative years, she witnessed many her father was hunted as an enemy of the state, her schools were bombarded, and her impoverished family was constantly in hiding. In 1986, her family moved back to London to find stability and a sense of relative peace.

In England, she discovered her artistic talents and completed several years of secondary education in fine art – eventually gaining attention as a visual artist, painter, and musician. In the early-2000s, Maya began to seriously explore her musical talents and used the internet and underground radio as the means to build her reputation as a unique and talented firebrand. Amidst her no-nonsense politics, however, critics from around the world heard a talent in the making.

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