MIA hits back after Kid Cudi kicks her off tour: “I have no apology for the judgemental”
MIA has responded after she was removed from Kid Cudi’s North American tour after being booed by his audiences for controversial comments.
During a show in Dallas on May 2nd, in footage that has since circulated on social media and gone viral, the singer told the crowd, “I’ve been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter.”
MIA then reportedly complained that she wasn’t able to sing her 2010 track, ‘Illegal’, which tackles the dehumanisation of refugees, because “there’s probably one in the crowd”, which was met with jeers from Kid Cudi’s fans.
Subsequently, Kid Cudi took to his Instagram Stories on May 4th to tell fans, “MIA is no longer on this tour.”
The rapper explained, “I told my management to send a notice to her team before we started tour that I didn’t want anything offensive at my shows, because I already knew what time it was, and I was assured things were understood.”
Kid Cudi went on to say that he has been “flooded with messages from fans that were upset by her rants”, which he said was “very disappointing and I won’t have someone on my tour making offensive remarks that upsets my fanbase”.
In response, MIA has taken to X to double down on her stance, telling her followers, “I wrote ‘Borders’ and ‘Illygal’ and ‘Paper Planes’ before you thought immigrant rights were cool. I’ve had these battles by myself without the help of millions of fans backing me. I don’t need this virtue signal era to all of a sudden erase an entire life I’ve led.”
The British singer added, “Jesus was an immigrant and a rebel. I have no apology for the judgemental. The wicked and the ignorant. For those are spirits that we must over come our lives and in this world. Jesus returns to lead the world justly because there is injustice in this world. I’m proud of those who fight for it everyday. God bless you.”
In a later post, MIA, who did endorse Donald Trump in 2024, clarified that she can’t vote in the US due to being a British citizen, and distanced herself from the administration, writing, “Americans supporting either side denying they are both owned by Israel is a whole convo we can’t seem to get to”.
She also wrote in response to a fan, “I am secure in Christ and I know how Satan operates,” and in another post on X, “ARTIST ARE DEAD, ENTERTAINERS WILL BE REPLACED BY ROBOTS.”
After being booted off the tour, MIA has since begun selling t-shirts on her merchandise store that read, ‘Rebellion is cancelled’.
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