M.I.A. - So Necessary

I spoke with the awesome British/Sri Lankan emcee M.I.A. today. She was in good spirits though a little disoriented by the amount of attention being placed on her. The rapper had a sold out show last night in L.A. that had all kinds of press and label peoples out.

I asked if she had anything to say to Asian America, she said:

“I just want to say I’m really impressed by the turnout at the gig yesterday. There were loads of Asian Americans there. I haven’t met the community and it opened the world up for me today. I really want to access it. I want to get in touch.”

Her album drops on Feb. 22 on XL Recordings. "Galang" and "Fire Fire" are available on iTunes.

Comments

Neela wrote on Fri, 02/04/2005 - 2:00pm

Nice. M.I.A.'s stuff is off the richter! Kind of like a South Asian Neenah Cherry ... her art is sick too. At first I kindof thought she was overdoing it with the political angle -- but I understand, marketing and all ....

Audrey wrote on Sat, 02/05/2005 - 6:29pm

So glad you mentioned M.I.A.! "Galang" is totally galing!

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a questioner... wrote on Thu, 03/17/2005 - 9:46pm

M.I.A. is in Philadelphia this weekend with a show on Sunday night. She had a nice article in last week's Sunday paper (The Inquirer)

todd inoue wrote on Sun, 03/20/2005 - 10:03pm

i saw her twice at SXSW. she killed it both times.

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