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MIA is a gardener not a terrorist
MIA just wants to be left alone to her gardening. She couldn’t be happier than when she’s knee deep in dirt, pruning her rose bed. But people always want something, don’t they, and MIA can’t seem to be able to escape the spotlight. Upon her retirement from touring the rumours and the bitching began. First there were the Pitchfork rumours that she was pregnant, then the Bodytonic rumours that she had a crack problem and now she’s being accused by Sri Lankan rapper Delon of supporting terrorism by rapping about the Tamil Tigers. The Tamil Tigers are a separatist group in the North of Sri Lanka. They use suicide attacks as their main weapon because they’re too poor to afford anything else. MIA’s father was a member. DeLon has created a diss video of him rapping over Paper Planes. He bases his accusations on MIA’s use of tigers in her videos and in her album artwork, which is about as clever as saying that Ricardo Villalobos is a huge supporter of the Taliban because he has facial hair. Come on Delon, get another bandwagon. MIA has dismissed Delon’s video and Universal have pulled it off You Tube. But we have it here for you. The pictures you’re about to see aren’t pretty.
MIA just wants to be left alone to her gardening. She couldn’t be happier than when she’s knee deep in dirt, pruning her rose bed. But people always want something, don’t they, and MIA can’t seem to be able to escape the spotlight. Upon her retirement from touring the rumours and the bitching began. First there were the Pitchfork rumours that she was pregnant, then the Bodytonic rumours that she had a crack problem and now she’s being accused by Sri Lankan rapper Delon of supporting terrorism by rapping about the Tamil Tigers.
The Tamil Tigers are a separatist group in the North of Sri Lanka. They use suicide attacks as their main weapon because they’re too poor to afford anything else. MIA’s father was a member.
Delon has created a diss video of him rapping over Paper Planes. He bases his accusations on MIA’s use of tigers in her videos and in her album artwork, which is about as clever as saying that Ricardo Villalobos is a huge supporter of the Taliban because he has facial hair. Come on Delon, get another bandwagon. MIA has dismissed Delon’s video and Universal have pulled it off You Tube. But we have it [here] (http://ceylonrecords.blogspot.com/2008/08/mia-diss-by-delon.html) for you. The pictures you’re about to see aren’t pretty.
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ladybuglorelei @ 8 Aug 2008 21:57Sometimes you gotta be extreme to make an impact in society -- and I think that's what DeLon did exactly. I don't think that the use of the images was irreverence -- it was an exaggeration of the irreverence that M.I.A. has been showing through her career through the use of terrorist-related symbols and lyrics. You gotta give some credit to this guy for having the guts to speak out on this matter. Terrorism is not a matter to be taken lightly, even in music, specially with hip hop music, a genre that influences many people.
I found this new related site: http://www.saynototerror.com
What bothers me most of all is that they're having a war against war. I think the best thing that should happen is for M.I.A. and Delon to be on the same side -- moving for peace and unity in Sri Lanka. I mean come on, this internet war isn't making things better. I believe that if M.I.A. and Delon work on the same side, for peace and unity, that would serve us all better.
PLUR
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