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A hip hop song, "Swagga Like Us" is built around a sample of "Paper Planes" by British artist M.I.A., featuring the line, "no one on the corner had swagger like us". [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Since "Paper Planes" itself samples the 1982 song " Straight to Hell " by British rock group The Clash , each of the writers of both songs are credited as writing ...
The song's lyric "No one on the corner has swagger like us" was sampled in "Swagga Like Us", a song recorded by American rappers T.I., Jay-Z, Kanye West and Lil Wayne, and produced by West, taken from T.I.'s 2008 studio album Paper Trail.
British rapper and singer M.I.A. has released six studio albums, two extended plays, three mixtapes, forty-two singles (including nine as a featured artist) and twenty-nine music videos. Born Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, M.I.A. began her career as a visual artist and film-maker, and moved into making music after filming a documentary on the ...
More than 30 years after her death, Mia Zapata's art continues to make a mark on the punk rock scene and influence both old and new generations of fans.
Like its predecessor, universal acclaim met Kala's release in August 2007 and the album earned a normalised rating of 87 out of 100 on Metacritic. [77] Kala was a greater commercial success than Arular. To support Kala, M.I.A. performed at a series of music festivals on the Kala Tour featuring performances in Europe, America and Asia.
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Mia noted that Tisa “died unexpectedly” in her sleep on Wednesday, January 10. “This is a hard time for all of u Art Zelin/Getty Images Tisa Farrow, the younger sister of Mia Farrow, has died.
In 2007, British singer M.I.A. sampled "Straight to Hell" in her song "Paper Planes" which, like "Straight to Hell", deals with the topic of immigration. "Paper Planes" was itself sampled in Jay-Z and T.I.'s 2008 song "Swagga Like Us"; the songwriters of "Straight To Hell" received co-writing credits for both songs.