M.I.A. Criticizes Beyonce’s Black Lives Matter Stance
M.I.A. stays in some sh*t. This time she went at Queen Bey over her “Formation” video in Evening Standards magazine:
“It’s interesting that in America the problem you’re allowed to talk about is Black Lives Matter. It’s not a new thing to me — it’s what Lauryn Hill was saying in the 1990s, or Public Enemy in the 1980s. Is Beyoncé or Kendrick Lamar going to say Muslim Lives Matter? Or Syrian Lives Matter? Or this kid in Pakistan matters? That’s a more interesting question.” She continued, “You can’t ask it on a song that’s on Apple, you cannot ask it on an American TV programme, you cannot create that tag on Twitter, Michelle Obama is not going to hump you back.”
She tried to clear it up…but that didn’t quite help.
The Beyhive still came for her…
Before you ask me about MIA's BLM/Beyonce statements on this here #Lemonade holiday weekend, I'll just say this. pic.twitter.com/JDOjkjIBI8
— Hassan Sayyed (@HausUrban) April 21, 2016
just read M.I.A. interview and i've never been so confused. Feels like she's trying challenge kdot & beyonce like social activism is a game.
— Ahmed/Rob Bizdashian (@big_business_) April 21, 2016
Beyonce has a platform and has decided to speak for her own. M.I.A you also have a platform to do so for your own. Do it and shut up. Safe
— D D 7 (@mrvans7) April 21, 2016
In her attempts to make Kendrick & Beyoncé sound ignorant, M.I.A. doesn't realise she sounds just as ignorant.
— omari (@thenameisomari) April 21, 2016
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