M.I.A. Drags Diplo In Lengthy Insty Post, Accuses Him Of “Distorting History”

M.I.A. and Diplo have had a patchy history to do the least and it seems it’s hit a rough spot once again.

He collaborated with her on her debut record Arular and her commercial breakthrough album Kala which featured ‘Paper Planes’ but they had a personal dispute that meant they didn’t work together again until 2016’s AIM.

M.I.A. has taken to social media now to dispute a story that Diplo told while he was speaking in Sydney with local DJ and producer Nina Las Vegas earlier this year.

The British artist has fired back in a lengthy Instagram post, letting anybody who doesn’t already know that she “forged” her own “path”.

She said that she originally bought a ticket to see Diplo at London club Fabric in 2003 when she first handed him a record. Diplo, however, made it sound like the meeting was pre-arranged.

She further goes on to accuse him of saying he produced 2007’s ‘Boyz’ even though he had little part and says that he cheated on her when they were dating.

“It’s important you don’t see me as a Iil 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,” she concluded.

“That didn’t happen because I accidentally walked passed Diplo.”

Diplo was quick to respond to the post writing, “not sure where your grudge comes from Im thankful for you believing in me. I wouldn’t have taken music seriously if it wasn’t for you.”

I just want to clear this up Here's a lil story of how this happened. I discovered diplo because Steve Mackey played me a song by him released on big dada! I found out on a "flyer" he was djing and spent 16 pounds and bought my own way into fabric club in London . No one put me on the list! Nobody paid for it! I approached him and gave him my record! There was no label no A N R no channels. a handful of people believed in me , then when I got a deal , they turned on me. This was why i forged my own path and style and genre. I didn't want anyone to say they made me! To this day so many people have made careers off me and the same people distort history destroy the story because of my politics , which he played a part in cementing. He said "politics is a terrible thing for music"in 2010 in the NYT article . During this time when 400 000 Tamil were getting bombed to death , he used to have a dart board of my face on his rider . Jus sayin . "He text me "you're walking backwards into a brick wall" when the NYT article came out. While I was defending privacy laws with a newborn baby like it's me against the world. No one came to my shows during this time because of that article and racist memes mad decent were spreading through hipsters. I let him 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. Everyone involved in major lazer now came together through me. I made boyz in Jamaica and Trinidad. I took switch there carried beers up the mountain everyday . Wes wasn't there because he was cheating on me in Brazil at the time. he turned up a year later and networked in JA saying he produced BOYZ coz the song blew in Jamaica. Walshy was the directors roommate and Chris was my day to day in Trinidad. it's important you don't see me as a Iil 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. Ta! This is literally 1% of the story!

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