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Just a few weeks after lambasting her label on Twitter for refusing to release her latest video because it was shot in Africa, M.I.A. has just announced a new mixtape on Instagram.
The mixtape, a twelve-minute affair split up into three tracks, will coincide with a video drop that sounds like the one M.I.A. was harping on her label to release last month.
Check out the announcement below, which M.I.A. seems to have posted in lieu of a traditional press release.
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The only other info we have about the project at this point seems to have come in the form of that rant last month in which she put her label on blast for refusing to release a video spotlighting an African dancer.
I wanna talk about clutrural appropriation! I've been told I can't put out a video because it's shot in Africa. Discuss
— M.I.A (@MIAuniverse) May 18, 2015
The video is 1 take shot of a dancer ! The best in the wide world! And he wasn't ever gonna make "_____got talent"
— M.I.A (@MIAuniverse) May 18, 2015
If the music industry allows an African artist to come through this year on intnl level, I would gladly give him this video for free.
— M.I.A (@MIAuniverse) May 18, 2015