M.I.A. recently sat down with MTV News to talk about her latest project ///Y/, which will hit stores next Tuesday. The British music sensation talked about remix to her hit single “XXXO,” to which Jay-Z recently lent a verse. She said she was surprised by the fact that Hova appreciated the song, which she describes as having a more “…electro vibe”.
“I was really surprised he liked ‘XXXO,’ actually. And I was really surprised he liked the version that’s on the album, and not Blaqstarr’s version,” she told MTV News. “It was interesting he liked the one with the crazy synths and stuff. It’s more sort of [an] electro vibe…and his verse [on the ‘XXXO’ remix] is so great. It was good to hear him say the word ‘metrosexual.'”
M.I.A. also said that she’s produced “…the perfect song” for Brooklyn legend. She says the track helped provide ///Y/‘s overall musical direction, but it ultimately didn’t make the final tracklist.
“I really want to produce for [Jay-Z],” she said. “I have got the perfect song for Jay-Z! In fact, [i]t’s the best one that I had for my album which never made it. [It was] the first song I was really into and the song that actually made my album go in the direction it did, [but it] never actually made the album. But I want to give it to [Jay-Z], because I think it suits him more. It’s insane. He’s never done anything like that.”
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This MIA Bitch is not a rapper, this is not news
your a fuckin lame….please cease with the hate
Have you ever listened to 20 Dollar? Besides the non traditional hip-hop/rap beat, she’s definitely rapping in it.
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Im so tired of this trendy, here-today-gone tomorrow hipster, electro bullshit. Jay-Z is reaching for a confused, younger audience and is alienating his core audience to the point that the streets aint feeling him no more…Him and Kanye and the like need to get off their narcissistic, god- complex having high-horse and make some relatable, good music again.
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who is jay-z’s core audience? to me jay has always been an experimental artist. look back on his catalog non of that shit sounds the same. maybe blueprint, black album and american gangsta he was on some soul sample shit.
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Jay-Z is one of the most bankable, well recognized faces of hip hop, so his core audience is huge. If you mean the late 20’s early 30’s “i grew up in the 80’s so i know real hip hop and todays shit is trash” audience, kindly sit down a stop with the bitching. You sound like a child who is afraid of change. I love hip hop because it is a diverse collection of sounds and artists. Im no skinny jeans and too small shirt wearin kid cudi lovein hipster, but some of these new cats are decent(Cudi, Wiz, Wale, Charles Hamilton). Its lots of folks who are trying to depart from what is traditionally known as the hip hop formula. Some of it is trash, some of it is great. What folks doin records like Kanye with 808s and Heartbreaks bring to hip hop is a wider fanbase who hopefully can get into more stuff than just the emo sounded chill records. Good music has no genre, no particular sound homeboy. Zeppelin Marley Rakim Hov Theolonius Monk Etta James its all good music. If you dont like it all fine. But appreciate it for what it is, or stay in your box.
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I feel this comment. i really do. But cmon after SO many successful street anthems and club hits AND even pop hits, why so hesitant to hear him expand and do new things? How many “Dead Presidents”, “Big Pimpin”s, and “H.O.V.A”s does he need to do to be allowed to move onto bigger, possibly better things?
I think its a stubborn approach to expect an artist, a creative person, to keep doing the same old things over and over. “Niggas want my old shit, buy my old album” Nothing is more hip hop than breaking the mold and doing things that other people are afraid to do.
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I wonder how many people think they have the “perfect song” for Jay-Z. Jay is just growing his international fanbase.
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Man MIA is the truth, hope this album is in the same league as the other ones.
Well this dosent supprise me jay already said his next album isn’t going to be number one cuz it going to be weird as fuck. I wonder what the beat sounds like….?
This chick has a ‘perfect song’ for everyone. Ive read about 4 different interviews she said she had the perfect song 4 lady gaga, christina aguilera (who dissed her btw lol)
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So I heard the M.I.A. – Maya album
If you like alternative electro/rock sounds, please please please give her song “Meds & Feds” a lesson. Song makes me just wanna wild out. It should have been released instead of XXXO. Actually, I like it better than Born Free.
It’s just has a hot sound. Very Cali-shore, drivin intoxicated-like. I know that’s bad to say. But you’ll get what I mean when you give it a listen.
Are you fools crazy with this hate!!!! All you hacks that think that hip hop shouldn’t change, I dare you to look at yourselves in the mirror. You are an EXACT replica of what hip hop is today and in No way for of fashion represent anything different. Cause if hip hop didn’t change we would still be wearin cut off shirts and wallet chains like grandmaster flash, or still be rocking the Jheri Curls and LA King hats like it was ’88. We all have to grow up sometimes. What 40 year old man really wants to sit there and really listen to a song about how much drugs a man sells or hearing Eminem rap about raping his mother. Hell, even Em grew out of that stage. Open your mind up you ignorant fools, hip hop is a cycle and a direct reflection of what is happening in society. We have a black president, so we should feel like we can step out of the box and try something new…Think about it…
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Most of you can’t name a MIA song other than Paper Planes…So STFU…..MIA been banging and Jay will use her to promote his global agenda….Didn’t hear you dumbasses when Curtis was on the Boom Boom Pow remix…Let People Eat