By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop.… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
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