M.I.A. wants to clear up one thing — Diplo didn’t discover her. According to her side of the story, she actually discovered him.
The two are not seeing eye-to-eye about their first meeting, which sparked the making of “Paper Planes,” one of the most iconic songs of all time (and many other heaters). In a fumed social media post the singer goes into details of their professional and personal relationship, and it gets a quite ugly. M.I.A. claims Diplo’s own label Mad Decent was spreading racist memes, he was cheating on her, and he even had a dartboard of her face on his rider.
But, she says she gave in: “To this day so many people have made careers off me and the same people distort history destroy the story because of my politics,” M.I.A. says. “I let [Diplo] cash in on the sound because I had no choice. I felt it was important to defend freedom of speech, even for American people and couldn’t play the game.”
She claims this lengthy post is just 1% of the story, and the main takeaway is this: “It’s important you don’t see me as a lil thing Diplo discovered because I’m a brown woman, and this is the first story of a brown female musician who smashed it for the first time. That didn’t happen because I accidentally walked passed Diplo.”
Diplo quickly responded: “not sure where your grudge comes from I’m thankful for you believing in me. I wouldn’t have taken music seriously if it wasn’t for you.”
Read the full post here…
M.I.A. Calls Out Diplo in Instagram Post
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYRBTn1B_yt/?hl=en
