During a recent interview, artist M.I.A. got a chance to speak on the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement. She says things that are being spoke on now, are the same things musicians like Lauryn Hill tried to speak on before
In the interview, M.I.A. says,
“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. 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.”
M.I.A. did not see Beyonce’s Super Bowl performance. She went on Twitter to justify her words saying,
A#blacklivesmatter B#Muslimlivesmatter. I’m not Muslim . My criticism wasn’t about Beyoncé. It’s how u can say A not B right now in 2016. My question was,on American platforms what do they allow you to stand up for in 2016. This has been the number 1 question for me.
Source: Complex
