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Meds and FedsM.I.A.

Released: July 7, 2010

Songwriter: Derek Miller M.I.A.

Producer: Derek Miller M.I.A.

[Intro]
At seventeen
What's gonna happen to him once he's finished with that scene?
What's he gonna start doin' when he's bored?
When he's bored?

[Chorus 1]
I just give a damn, damn, damn
I just give a damn, damn, damn
I just give a damn
I just- I just give a damn
I just- I just give a damn
I just- I just give a damn, damn, damn
I just give a damn
I just- I just give a damn
I just- I just give a damn
I just- I just give a damn, damn, damn

[Refrain 1]
Just give a- Just give a- Just- I- (x6)
Just give a damn
I just- I just give damn
I just- I-

[Verse 1]
Who says all the rules are made with rulers?
We break em and break in their computers
I ain't buying no more from them looters
Who try to outschool us
So we jump on our scooters
I hope you understood us

[Chorus 2]
I just give a damn, damn, damn
I just give a damn
I just- I just give a damn
I just- I just give a damn
I just- I just give a damn, damn, damn

[Refrain 1]
Just give a- Just give a- Just- I- (x6)
Just give a damn
I just- I just give damn
I just- I-

[Verse 2]
Hocus pocus, but you can't take away our focus
We're growing up in middle of the digital ruckus
You can say fuck us, I ain't putting on the stoppers
We could be hackers making it like Lakers
While we become workers you become golfers
The modern day coppers beating on us for the papers

[Chorus 3]
I just give a damn, damn, damn
I just give a damn, damn, damn

[Refrain 2]
Just give a- Just give a- Just- I- (x14)
Just give a damn
I just- I just give damn
I just- I-

M.I.A.

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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