M.I.A. Compares Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook Lies to Celebrity Vaccination PSAs In Controversial Tweet – Billboard

M.I.A. is courting controversy after once more, this time with a tweet which reiterates her anti-vax stance.

Like so a lot of other people, the veteran British rapper and singer (true identify Mathangi Arulpragasam) weighed in on the damages invoice Infowars host Alex Jones has been ordered to pay back to households of Sandy Hook victims.

A Connecticut courtroom this 7 days slapped the suitable-wing commentator with a $965 million payable sum, for falsely and regularly declaring the 2012 massacre was staged by actors, as section of a conspiracy to consider away Americans’ guns.

M.I.A. has an totally different angle on it.

“If Alex Jones pays for lying shouldn’t just about every movie star pushing vaccines spend as well?” she writes.

M.I.A.’s opinions are at odds with the huge majority of the health-related group, and they arrive in advance of an album release, MATA, her sixth studio set and very first by means of Island Records by means of a just lately-declared worldwide offer.

The hip-hop artist has always adopted the beat of her personal drum. When she prolonged her center finger in the course of Madonna’s Super Bowl functionality on Feb. 5, 2012, the gesture landed her in very hot h2o with the NFL, a dispute that would at last be settled some 3 many years later.

Along the way, she has beefed with her label (Interscope), the Grammys, fellow artists and far more.

As the novel coronavirus spread in March 2020, the rapper chimed in on social media, “If I have to pick the vaccine or chip I’m gonna pick demise.”

When a follower named her out for being an “anti vaxxer,” the rapper responded with, “Yeah in The us they designed me [vaccinate] my baby before the school admission. It was the hardest detail. To not have option over this as a mom. I never wanna really feel that all over again. He was so ill for 3 weeks then Docs experienced to pump him with antibiotics to cut down the fever from 3 vaxins.”

M.I.A. will rejoice the 20th anniversary following calendar year for Arular, her debut, Mercury Prize-shortlisted album. In the United States, she has landed a string of top rated 10 hits including “Paper Planes,” “Give Me All Your Luvin’”, on which she appeared with Madonna and Travis Scott’s Billboard Hot 100 leader “Franchise” with Youthful Thug.

In 2019, she was awarded an MBE for companies to audio.