M.I.A.

Released: September 9, 2016

Songwriter: M.I.A.

Producer: The Partysquad

[Verse 1]
Big event million spent
Whatchu gon do thats relevant
Tweet tweet read read
Watch again
Me me me is what you vent
Nothing changed since you been top ten
All in the streets are hungry men
If you don’t give us what we need then
We gonna go off and hit the bend
This you send
Click again
Kick me down and I’m back again
Gonna fight pen
With my pen
I fire that round till they stop the trend

[Hook]
I talk and talk until I piss em off
I talk talk talk talk

[Verse 2]
This system has to come
With way better shit
Then racism
Hatism or
Hate Islam
Better check up on the baptism
If you don’t give a fuck that's skepticism
If you do give a shit thats wac to some
If you got a brain lets practice em
Is it tic for tac
Getting back at em
Here we come here we come
Dance on the street like I hit a drum
Here we come here we come
Dance on the street like I hit a drum

[Hook]
I talk and talk until I piss em off
I talk talk talk talk

Year to year I say yeah yeah
In warrior mode there nothing to fear
Ebola scare or a bomb scare
It's the same shit just hit and share

[Hook]
I talk and talk until I piss em off
I talk talk talk talk

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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