This started out in the Aaliyah thread, but it needs its own thread.
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._(rapper)
Here's the discussion so far...
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._(rapper)
Here's the discussion so far...
(01-30-2025, 07:12 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote:
7:48 re: Beyonce, Jews, whites, blacks...
If M.I.A. gets Aaliyah'd, we'll know exactly why.
"They all work for satan."
She's literally the only legitimately famous person who has ever come out and said this kind of shit as far as I know, at least in the music world. I dunno, maybe I'm forgetting somebody. But I mean, what she's saying is a big deal and the fact that it's kind of flying under the radar is a bit concerning. She should be talking about this on any major alternative thinking interview platform she can get on. She needs to get on Joe Rogan etc.
Thank God somebody is recording this.
God bless and protect Maya.
4:16.
Sept. 2020...
I'm just saying.
If she goes down, this is fucking why.
This has never been done before.
Kanye West who? What he did was nothing compared to this.
Pft...
And she's been talking about this shit for YEARS.
I am very surprised it's flown under the radar for so long...
This video has 839 views at the time of writing, and that's actually one of her official channels.
I think her only protection is that some of the stuff she says would come off as totally crazy to a lot of people. She seems low key unhinged, but she's actually not.
It's kind of the same thing David Icke has going on. There's always some crazy shit about the moon being "fake" peppered into his shit. Or something similarly absurd.
With Maya, her David Icke style "red herring" is way less obvious though. I am really not even seeing it yet. My only conclusion is that the label of "crazy" is protecting her.
But I don't really hear that much bad shit being said about her. I'm shocked she ever got famous at all. Like why'd they let her? So there's gotta be a catch. Maybe they gave her a pass cuz she's super hot. This could be a case of pretty privilege.
She's always embroiled in some kind of shit, but we only ever hear her side of it. We never hear anybody else's side.
I think it's just cuz she's hot and crazy. That must be why they let her do this.
I guess Beyonce never felt threatened enough by her...
It's crazy to me that Beyonce ever became as powerful as she supposedly is.
I remember when she first popped off with Destiny's Child, she was a freaking pop star and that's it.
Like...
When did all this other bullshit happen?
Her image is totally manufactured. All these nicknames they call her were actually started by herself.
"Queen Bee" and whatever, it's all her and the management team coming up with bullshit that fans will just mindlessly recite cuz they wanna be the cool kids, in the cool club with the important people.
Total sham.
Upside down, inside out clown world.
What a shitshow.
Meanwhile, not that it matters or anything, but Maya is WAY fucking hotter than Beyonce, and it goes deeper than looks.
Maya is just COOL.
She's cool AND hot.
Just like Aaliyah was. This is the kind of funky style that basic bitchez like Beyonce can never attain.
You can't pay for that shit, you gotta be born with it. Aaliyah was, Maya was, and Beyonce was just beautiful.
Beyonce only ever really had her looks to trade for shit, sure she can sing, but a lot of people can.
Like TBH, I had a crush on Beyonce when I was a kid. I thought she was super hot, but she's not COOL. She's just kind of standard. She's just standard as far as beautiful women go.
That is my honest take on Beyonce.
It's retarded as fuck to think Beyonce has any hand in her own artistic direction at all...
Cuz she started out as a popstar when she was a teenager or some shit, there was no fucking goal there, it was just a glorified beauty contest.
She's been sold out since like literally the year 2000.
When she got that role in the Austin Powers movie, that's when she was sold out, and whoever writes her music took that weird feminist direction with it.
The rest is history man, I cannot believe THESE are the "most powerful" people in the industry, the mere concept is ludicrous.
Pop stars, reality TV stars, these people are becoming politicians or at least having as much sway as some politicians do.
The whole nine yards is a farce.
She definitely doesn't have any say so in the direction of her own career, but she's always been giving "mob wife" since she's been with Jay-Z.
They can't actually write their own songs, but I sure wouldn't put other things past them.
Mind you that Jay-Z notoriously does not even write his songs down.
This is literal, these people do not write their own songs. Don't even get me started on Taylor Swift.
People act like Jay-Z is some kind of oracle because he just freestyles in the studio, but I am just so unimpressed by these people.
We need a whole new kind of celebrity because these people are fucking absolutely old guard, old news, not great.
People like Maya are fresh and exciting, they're really delightful. Grimes is kind of in that same group, but I like Maya way more.
They're interesting and unique, think outside of the box and are SMOKIN' FUCKIN' HOT most of the time.
These are the men and women who need to be foisted upon us in the media now, give us weird hot.
We're tired of regular hot, standard basic beautiful people. We want weird people now.
I now have a massive girl crush on Maya.
I would 100% eat her pussy.
I'd go gay.
I want to suck on her fingers while we listen to The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump audiobook version.
I'm watching the 2018 documentary about Maya...
https://www.amazon.com/Matangi-Maya-M-I-...B07KCM1N3F
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.
Apparently at one point she wanted to be a documentarist and she's been filming herself vlog style since the early 2000s at least.
It's clear that she's always been very far ahead the times, cutting edge. It's giving pioneer, trailblazer, visionary.
It does seem like she has spoiled pretty girl syndrome to a degree though... like, definitely a stereotypical example of beautiful women being extra crazy.
Not crazy as in what she's saying isn't true or it's outlandish and therefore BS, no... it's just her behavior itself that comes across as sort of unhinged sometimes.
She had to be born that way though because her upbringing definitely didn't result in this kind of dynamic. Gotta be her personality type or her archetype basically.
It's wild to see this footage of her sitting and talking to the camera amidst all this Y2K technology and fashion, I mean she has been doing this for a LONGGG time. She's exactly the same as she ever was too. No wonder she's so comfortable with the camera on those livestreams.
22:05 she's on a flip phone talking to someone about needing extra camera batteries whilst drinking a to-go cup from Caffe Nero. I am fucking obsessed. And she's looking at the camera like it's another person, not like it's just a device. She's fucking incredible dude, a natural 100% born to do what she's done.
Maya is honest to God one of those people who makes me EXCITED to be alive at this time in history. We're all currently living historical figures. Isn't that trippy? And I've been alive at the same time as Bob Dylan and this chick and a bunch of other revolutionary fuckers who will go down in history as some of the most iconic people who ever lived. Fucking Trump and Elon. We're all walking the Earth at the same time. I'm fucking stoked man. Prolly get hit by a bus tomorrow. Bwahahaha!
Bro she's so fucking hot though. Like she's so sexy it's completely insane. I cannot believe how hot she is. She's so hot.
Yo, Sri Lanka looks rough as fuck. This is very fascinating. Very interesting to see where she grew up.
Yeesh man... she really was a black sheep in her family. It's so cool to see her dancing with the youngsters in her extended family, playing old classic American hits that they've definitely never heard before. The whole thing must have been strange for her... not just coming from a place like that, but going back as someone so different.
26:55 "We have to register that you are here in this house ... for when [the police/army] come for a night checkup." Woooowwww.
31:18 so this footage is from 2016, she's 41 here and looks wicked fucking hot, like even hotter than she was in the 2001 clips. Good God man... they need to stop censoring and start studying a bitch, we need to figure out what's different about her. She had a kid too, it didn't ruin her body. If she'd had multiple kids, that probably would have fucked things up. She's definitely lucky to look so good after even one.
33:00 she better digitize these fucking tapes.
53:52 Sri Lanka, 2001, she's filming herself brushing her teeth.
56:50 shit was intense with the war when she was there in 2001, you can tell in a lot of these clips she's just filming herself for comfort and to feel less alone.
58:50 footage from 2009 and she's heavily pregnant with Benjamin Bronfman's child...
The Bronfmans are billionaires. She got herself into lifelong hot water by reproducing with him, but at least he's pretty good looking.
1:02:50 damn dude... from what I'm seeing here, she's lucky she wasn't killed for speaking out against the war back in 2009. That's some scary shit.
1:03:40 wow, Bill Maher is such a dick it's literally unbelievable.
TBH most of her music is too loud and chaotic for me, but some of it is great.
1:23:40 judging by some of this footage, Benjamin seemed very supportive of Maya. Seems like he loved her a lot. Wonder what happened between them. He probably cheated.
1:25:08 pretty laughable that Janet Jackson can show her whole tit in a "wardrobe malfunction" (she even had a decorated pastie on so it's not like it wasn't planned) 8 fucking years before this incident and yet Maya is the bad guy for flipping the bird.
I think Maya is way more punk rock than anybody's ever really given her credit for.
1:28:30 her son was saying he wanted to try one of the sugary drinks and he's like, "What does it taste like?" and she goes, "It tastes like medicine." Roflmao, fucking brilliant. He just turned around and totally forgot about it.
Seriously excellent documentary. What a world.
All her music is heavily censored. You can't find it in a regular search on Amazon, you gotta find it from searching on Google and then clicking an Amazon link.
This is her best song and it's not available for download anywhere that I can see...
Not surprising considering the message content though.
Technically she wasn't the first female singer to be blacklisted, Eartha Kitt was heavily blacklisted. She may be the first "modern" female singer to be blacklisted and censored. Dunno. Doesn't really matter, rap is all about talking a big line of shit, it's actually a pretty narcissistic genre. I should be a rapper.
I dunno whether to bump or grind.
I kinda feel like Prince and Maya would have liked each other, wonder why they never met.
I feel like they were at different times in their creative journeys.
This is some pretty unique shit though, I have to say.
I bet I could make a tight re-edit of this song.
That was freakin' dirty, lol.
I see Santigold in the recommended section for a lot of M.I.A.'s videos though. She's really great. Musically they are definitely alike, and Santi actually considers herself a punk artist, so that checks out too.
Maya should have declared herself under the umbrella of punk. She's like a punk rapper.
OMG, punk rap.
I just invented this.
You guys, I invented punk rap just now.
The musical similarities are thanks to Switch, who also works with M.I.A.
This is the original song...
Decidedly punk, musically.
So this is basically what M.I.A. would prolly sound like without producers like Switch.
Diplo also worked with Santi.
Seems like the remixes get a lot more popular than the original versions, cuz genre wise they're WAY different.
Maya talks like she CREATED Diplo, but he was working before they were together, and he probably made his best songs in that era.
This was from 2004. Apparently they met in 2003. This is Diplo's best era for sure but I'm not sure how much influence she really had on him.
These people legitimately seem like a bunch of glorified dorks who came together to make music.
It's not really giving cabal.
I could be wrong though.
