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

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

Like so many others, the veteran British rapper and singer (actual identify Mathangi Arulpragasam) weighed in on the damages invoice Infowars host Alex Jones has been ordered to pay to households of Sandy Hook victims.

A Connecticut courtroom this week slapped the right-wing commentator with a $965 million payable sum, for falsely and repeatedly claiming the 2012 bloodbath was staged by actors, as a part of a conspiracy to remove People’ weapons.

M.I.A. has a wholly totally different angle on it.

“If Alex Jones pays for mendacity shouldn’t each superstar pushing vaccines pay too?” she writes.

M.I.A.’s feedback are at odds with the overwhelming majority of the medical neighborhood, they usually come forward of an album launch, MATA, her sixth studio set and first through Island Data by a recently-announced world deal.

The hip-hop artist has all the time adopted the beat of her personal drum. When she prolonged her center finger throughout Madonna’s Tremendous Bowl efficiency on Feb. 5, 2012, the gesture landed her in scorching water with the NFL, a dispute that will lastly be resolved some three years later.

Alongside the way in which, she has beefed together with her label (Interscope), the Grammys, fellow artists and extra.

Because the novel coronavirus unfold in March 2020, the rapper chimed in on social media, “If I’ve to decide on the vaccine or chip I’m gonna select dying.”

When a follower known as her out for being an “anti vaxxer,” the rapper responded with, “Yeah in America they made me [vaccinate] my little one earlier than the varsity admission. It was the toughest factor. To not have selection over this as a mom. I by no means wanna really feel that once more. He was so sick for 3 weeks then Docs needed to pump him with antibiotics to cut back the fever from 3 vaxins.”

M.I.A. will have fun the twentieth anniversary subsequent 12 months for Arular, her debut, Mercury Prize-shortlisted album. In america, she has landed a string of high 10 hits together with “Paper Planes,” “Give Me All Your Luvin’”, on which she appeared with Madonna; and Travis Scott’s Billboard Sizzling 100 chief “Franchise” with Younger Thug.

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