Rapper M.I.A

Her lyrics are often controversial and raw, as is the case with her latest music video for the song “Borders”, and the actual visuals are equally as stirring. It’s an impassioned and poignant commentary on the ongoing refugee crisis, with particular focus on the hazards and challenges faced by displaced peoples, as well as the inhumane treatment they receive.

‘I want to dedicate this video to my Uncle Bala my icon and role model, ‘ the Bad Girls rapper wrote on Twitter.

“Thank you for helping my family come to England and taking us out of Srilanka and saving us”. Much of the action takes place in the background, with M.I.A. rapping and singing to the camera – but the frames are filled with myriad colors, a contrast to the starker realities she details in the song.

Borders, which was released on iTunes on Friday, is set to appear on her upcoming album Matahdatah. “Everything I became was to say thank you to you!” Earlier this year, she told EW that the project is “like a journal”. Both are part of a truly global and characteristically DIY M.I.A. project.

An upswing in war, terror and conflict has caused an increased number of refugees to travel to Europe in search of resettlement, the BBC reported.