M.I.A. says Jay-Z informed her to surgically improve her options as quickly as she signed to his label Roc Nation in 2012.
The British rapper and producer joined the Roc Nation administration roster one 12 months earlier than the discharge of her fourth album Matangi, and she or he left in 2014. But whereas talking on Instagram Live on Friday, M.I.A. claimed that the “very first thing” that Hov informed her to do upon their assembly was “get cosmetic surgery.”
“I’m not insecure as a result of I might have gotten cosmetic surgery,” she continued. “So their argument of ‘Maya’s fucking insecure, that’s why she must fucking therapeutic massage her ego,’ fails. It fails since you flip round and ask … What girls are you aware who hasn’t had cosmetic surgery round you? All of them have. I’m the one one who did not, which already proves the very fact it isn’t insecurity.”
She continued, “Because it is OK. Guess what? I’m 50, and I’m completely high-quality with the very fact I’m as a result of, yeah, I fucking took off after I was 30 … It took 10 extra fucking years than some other fucker as a result of I used to be the primary and I used to be the brand new. I used to be making one thing fascinating occur that wasn’t fucking occurring earlier than.”
It would not be the primary time the “Born Free” artist aired out her grievances in opposition to Roc Nation. In February, throughout a social media rant about her profession, 15-year-old son Ikhyd, and politics, M.I.A. claimed that Mathangi was “buried” because of Jay-Z’s relationship with the Bronfmans. M.I.A. shares Ikhyd with Benjamin Bronfman.
“I sacrificed my profession for my youngster,” she wrote on X on the time. “They ripped me off and copied my model and gave it to their puppets and shadowbanned me on each platform. But it was price it to save lots of him from the insanity of what now.”
She additionally claimed that Roc Nation “stopped all communication with me and all my emails to jayz asking for assist was wiped from my inbox.”
