Diplo, who has worked as a producer on all three M.I.A. albums, has slammed the singer saying she’s bluffing when it comes to politics.
“Maya left herself open for attacks,” he said to WWD.com. “Maya left herself open for attacks. She’s not an easy artist to criticise because she’s very left-leaning, she’s progressive, she’s a woman. She’s good in a lot of aspects, but when it comes to die-hard, facts-on-the-ground politics, she’s at zero. She’s nothing.”
He went on to say: “I told her at the beginning of the third record, 'Do not bring politics into this'. Obama's the President, for one. You just can’t glamorise terrorism, it's not cool… you can’t hide behind that shit. But she totally did. She didn’t have a plan B. I told her from the beginning it's not going to work. And [journalist] Lynn Hirschberg just ate it up. If she didn’t the critics would have ate her up anyway because the record wasn’t good.”
The singer was born in London, but spent her early years living in Sri Lanka and India. She often raps about the politics that part of the world.
Her fourth album, ‘Ihkyd’ is due out later this year.
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