Swag to the Max

M.I.A. has finally graced us with her presence. It seems that MIA has been popping up all of a sudden this week not only with this video but her feature on a new Madonna song (umm random). No complaints here. This is her "new" single which is actually a track from her VICKI LEEKZ mixtape that came out almost 2 years ago. I don't know anything about a new album yet but I'll keep you posted. Anyways this video is super swag to the max.

My New Favorite Song

"Sunshine" by Rye Rye ft M.I.A. Rye is a 19 year old rapper from Baltimore. I like her a lot. Being a fan of M.I.A I have heard of Rye for a while now. Last year she released "Bang" but shortly after she found out she was pregnant. So now she is starting over again and her album Go! Pop! Bang! will be dropping soon.

Current fav songs

I, as I am sure many people go through phases or cycles where they have a few choice songs playing in their head, car stereo, cd players (yeah they still exist) and mp3 players on a constant basis. You play them till you get sick of them, then you go through a drab period where you hate everything on your iPod(or whatever), then another cycle of songs tickle your fancy. As of now these are my faves.
Up first is a track from M.I.A.'s new album Maya. Now there is a story as to how I obtained this CD its quite a long one. At the beginning of the summer my mother and I planned a trip to NYC. It turned out the same weekend she wanted to up HARD NYC was also happening that weekend. HARD consisted of a lot of artist including: Ninjasonik, Theophilus London and Rye Rye among others. And the festival was being headlined by none other than M.I.A. So the thing was I was not able to afford tickets for my brother and myself to go but my mother assured me that she was able to get them for us. However; I was looking for a miracle to get these tickets. One day I was over at Dr. Jays website and there was this contest to win tickets to HARD NYC. Low and behold I actually win them, I never win anything. But before actually finding out that I won the tickets our trip was canceled due to the common disease ourfundsarelow. So the good people over at Dr Jays was supposed to send me the tickets and I was going to give them to my cousin Rachahd whom lives in NY. Oddly enough I never got the tickets. Cut to 2 weeks ago I get a package in the mail from them with a copy of M.I.A.'s new album. Pretty cool. In the end it all kind of worked itself out. Now since the release of the album critics have not been very kind to it, but as a huge M.I.A. fan I chose not to pay attention to it. My initial response to the album was, much like the critics not very favorable. To me the music was very distorted and the songs didnt have any real structure to it. But over time it has grown on me. So bringing me to one of my favorite tracks on the album, and one of my favorite songs right now here is "Tell Me Why"

Up next is a track from Cee Lo Green's Stray Bullets mixtape that came out a few weeks ago. This song is called "ChamPain". Cee Lo is just awesome.

During the summer I work at the Virginia Beach Amphitheater as a "production runner" where you run around in the heat for countless hours running errands for the different tours that come through the venue. A few weeks ago I got to work the Rockstar Mayhem Festival which is a traveling metal tour. This year the headliner was Korn which I was VERY excited about. I got to see a majority of the show albeit from a crappy spot, but hey I can't complain. I've loved Korn for many years and the chance to see them was like a teenage dream come true and it also kicked up how much I loved them. So I've been listening to them a lot lately and one of my current faves is "Throw Me Away" from their See You on the Other Side album.

That's all for now, sure there are other songs that I listen to but these are like my top choices for the moment. So yeah end of blog post. Run along now.

M.I.A. on Real Time with Bill "I love the chocolate bunnies" Maher

This past Weekend MIA was talking with Bill Maher on the long going civil war in her homeland Sri Lanka which made US headlines this past week. Her father was in the Tamil Tigers

M.I.A. had her babay!

On valentine's day Maya took to her myspace blog to tell us all the great news that her baby boy is here! I dont know why Im so excited for her like I know her personally or like I went to her baby shower but I am, Im that excited! Congrats!
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I fly like lightweight objects, get high like things in the sky.

There is this article today in the New York Times about my girl crush M.I.A. Basically discussing how people in her homeland feel about her music (if they even know who she is). For those who do not know her father was part of the Tamil group in Sri Lanka which is a group of rebels there. Her lyrics if you listen to them and don't get distracted by the sick ass beats in her songs, are very political. There was a time where the US wouldnt even let her in the country because they considered her a terrorist or one affiliated with terrorist. You have to see it in her prospective. The way she grew up was her father were beating the bad guys, while the rest of the country view her father and the group she was associated with as the bad guys. Anyways its a nice little article so check it out.
And a bonus her on stage with some guys at the grammys(this is the best version I could get you know how youtube is.)

M.I.A. is manly.

Maybe this will explain why I have a massive girl crush on her you can read the new article on Maya where she talks about her baby daddy and the male energy that is inside her (grr). I LOVE YOU M.I.A.!*ahem* Sorry I lost myself a little bit there ha.
Photo Courtesy of Spin Magazine Online

The "Cool" List

So I was over at NME magazine's website aka the hipster's music bible and they have their Top 50 Cool list for 2008. 95% of the people they mentioned I didnt even know who they were, I guess im not a hipster DAMMIT! Anyways Santogold was #17 and M.I.A. was #8 and that's pretty much who I only cared about. Lil Wayne was #13 because he wants to be a hipster and Alice Glass from Crystal Castles was #1. Dont know who she is? thats okay cause I barely know who she is too. I only heard of Crystal Castles cause they had a song on the NIne Inch Nails "Lights in the sky" EP of people whom they were touring with, the song is pretty cool though. You can check out the full list here http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&title=nme_cool_list_2010&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

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Girl Crush!

M.I.A. coming back with Fiyah Fiyah! So I love M.I.A., if I was a dude I would be on her, heavy. From different sources she has like different names. some have been Maya, seen some others, but for the purpose of this post lets call her Maya. Maya Arulpragasm was born in Sri Lanka her dad was like some type of rebel dude and her family moved to London when she was in her teens or somethings like that. She actually was an artist and was into films until she went on a tour to film a documentary for a band opening up for PEACHES. Peaches convinced her to start making music and lets say the rest is history. Her first album Arular came out in 2005 and the song "Galang" was heard on like Honda commercials which was....c o o l kind of. That album became a solid success both stateside and overseas. Kala came out in august of 2007 and the song "Paper PLanes" started climbing the charts a year after the album came out due to the fact that it was in the trailer of "Pineapple Express"(great movie by the way). I just love (codeword:Hate) how everyone is on the M.I.A. bandwagon now, like how late is every body on Maya. Anyways any hopes and dreams of me being with her if I got that operation has been crushed by some dude named Benjamin Brewer from some random band The Exit and now she's knocked up. Im happy for her, not happy for my fantasies::sighs::