When Mac asked her to clarify exactly what she meant by “clean”, M.I.A. responded, “There’s no complains on it.There’s another side to me completely”.
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Earlier this week M.I.A. said she was “on the verge” of leaking the new album. It features Blaqstarr & Skrillex and will premiered tonight by Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 as her ‘Hottest Record in the World’.
The rapper confirmed on her website that the follow up to 2013’s “Matangi” will be called “AIM” and is due for release on September 9.
The Paper Planes star has always been an advocate for misplaced citizens, and when she released details of her long-gestating album on Thursday (14Jul16), she used the opportunity to share a message in defence of refugee lives around the world. Matahdatah was also the name of this forthcoming album at the time. M.I.A. said on Twitter that she’s been struggling not to just leak the album early.
Survivors of war, conflict and genocide live on as IDPs and refugees, dispersed across their homelands and the globe.
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Varatharajah’s text, titled “M.I.A. // A.I.M.”, concluded with the confirmation of the single and the album’s release date. It reads, “In the absence of privacy and basic rights, its inhabitants are forced to constantly renegotiate boundaries and create new laws”. As border-crossers, modern day nomads, governments worldwide have tried to clamp down on their movements by criminalizing them and locking them up into camps and into poverty. They are imagined to be places of nightmares held captive by the traumata of the displaced, kept under a never ending state of emergency.
