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M.I.A. – Birdflu
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Bird Flu disses dogging males everywhere over another filmi sample and a barely synchronized four-four on some thirty deep-tone durmi drums.
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Revisiting The Global Samples On M.I.A.’s ‘Kala’
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Today marks the album’s 10th anniversary.
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M.I.A. – Paper Planes
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This penultimate song on Kala marries a deceptively airy beat with a song about tourist-murdering passport-counterfeiting thieves. The song can be read as the clichéd story of
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Young Lyric (Ft. Slim Jxmmi) – Busy Right Now
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[Intro: Doug Copsey, Slightm Jxm] / (Let's do it—) You are watchin Now / A master at work / YeaHook / Ayy, tha / Can't piDJ Chkse over there?uIt l th like DJ Chose / Ayy, ayy, ayy
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M.I.A. – Pull Up the People
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“Pull Up The People”,the first song off her debut album “Arular”, sets the stage for M.I.A.’s unique use of Guerrilla Wafare analogies and Warfighter metaphors.
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M.I.A. – Paper Planes (Afrikan Boy & Rye Rye Remix)
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[Verse 1: M.I.A.] / I fly like paper, get high like planes / If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name / If you come around here, I make 'em all day / I get one done in
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M.I.A. (Ft. Afrikan Boy & Rye Rye) – Paper Planes (Blaqstarr Remix)
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Birds of the same flow share the same feather. I just want to make my dollar and my Niara. [Chorus: M.I.A.] All I wanna do is (gunshot, gunshot, gunshot ...
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M.I.A. (Ft. The Wilcannia Mob) – Mango Pickle Down River
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On Mango Pickle Down River, M.I.A. contributes her own verse to preteen Aboriginal rap group The Wilcannia Mob’s award-winning hit single. Her lyrics emphasize how drug-use
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M.I.A. – Jimmy
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Only with Jimmy, a Bollywood disco number a kiddie M.I.A. used to dance to for money at Sri Lankan parties, does a conventional song surface.
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M.I.A. – Shells
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[Verse 1] / Shells on the floor, the writing's on the wall / Bullets in your store says "I'm huntin' for you all" / Field full of dope, I'm harvestin' my hope / Shippin' out speed
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M.I.A. (Ft. Timbaland) – Come Around
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The album closer on Kala explores the running theme of M.I.A projection of diverse culture’s on a worldwide scale.
On here collaborating with Timbaland for a guest verse, M.I.A
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M.I.A. – Far Far
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[Verse 1] / Time got me feelin' emotions / Why you always diggin' on my nerve? / I feel weak, when I say "please," you keep on / Does breakin' me make you feel real strong? / Does
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M.I.A. – XR2
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The song is a mixture of M.I.A. experience partying in the London rave scene in the 90’s.
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M.I.A. – Boyz
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In 2016, after all the accusations of being anti-black due to her comment towards BLM, she took a few minutes to reflect on Boyz during a conversation with The Fader:
No, every
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M.I.A. (Ft. Afrikan Boy) – Hussel
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There’s melancholy melodica and Sri Lankan temple horn on “Hussel,” the then eighteen-year-old rapper Afrikan Boy describes his hustles.
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M.I.A. – Bamboo Banga
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Kala opens with the uninvitingly spare “Bamboo Banga”, which samples Indian Tamil filmi composer Ilayaraja and bends the lyric of The Modern Lovers “Roadrunner”. The song
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Nicki Minaj – The Pinkprint Freestyle
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Nicki Minaj has been toying with the idea of releasing a new mixtape since she dropped The Pinkprint album back in 2014. While she has thrown out a few guest verses here and there
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M.I.A. – World Town
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[Intro] / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / [Verse 1] / Sick of all the shit that's keeping me down
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M.I.A. – 20 Dollar
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[Verse 1] / War! War! War! / Talking about you's such a bore / I'd rather talk about moi / Like do you know the cost of AK's up in Africa? / 20 dollars ain't shit to you / But that
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M.I.A. – What I Got
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[Intro] / Dance, damn it, dance, I rule / Dance, damn it, dance, I rule / Dance, damn it, dance, I rule / Dance, damn it, dance, I rule / [Verse 1] / I was bored, I needed new
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M.I.A. (Ft. JAY-Z) – Boyz (Remix)
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1st track off of M.I.A.’s Kala (Deluxe Edition) disc two.
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M.I.A. – The Turn
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[Verse 1] / I don't read, yeah, I just guess / As the world turns / Don't bring me with your mess / [Verse 2] / I'm trying to do my best / Get my head up out the stress / When the
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M.I.A. – Big Branch
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5th track off of M.I.A.’s Kala (Deluxe Edition) disc two; written by Thomas Pentz, Dave Taylor and Maya Arulpragasam.
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BabyTron – PS2
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[Intro] / Phew / (Hokatiwi) / [Chorus] / He tried to go MIA, I got some Zoes out that way / Pint had a verse in it 'til I poured out an eight / Already conquered planet Earth, we
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Mims – This Is Why I'm Hot
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[Chorus] / This is why I'm hot (Hot!), this is why I'm hot (Hot!) (Yeah!) / This is why, this is why, this is why I'm hot (Huh!) / This is why I'm hot (Hot!), this is why I'm hot (
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Breaking Down M.I.A.’s Influential Hit “Paper Planes”
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The classic track maintains its relevance to this day.
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Nicki Minaj (Ft. Rihanna) – Fly
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This song is from Nicki Minaj’s debut album, Pink Friday, and features Rihanna. This song is about prospering in the game, the criticism, and desperation that comes with fame, and
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Idina Menzel – Let It Go Samples
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See all of “Let It Go” by Idina Menzel’s samples
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Foo Fighters – Learn to Fly
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In Dave Grohl’s own words:
[“Learn to Fly” is] about the search for some sort of inspiration, the search for signs of life that will make you feel alive. It’s actually one of my
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Kendrick Lamar – Black Boy Fly
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The second bonus track off of Kendrick Lamar’s major-label debut album Good Kid, m.A.A.d city. It focuses on Kendrick seeing people from his neighborhood rise up and achieve
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