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  Your 2012 MTV VMAs Nominees Are... Mostly Rihanna and Drake

  July 31, 2012 – Cementing the fact Rihanna seems to have been everywhere over the past year or so, the pop star has tied Drake as the most-nominated artist for the 28th installment of MTV's Video Music Awards. Both artists received five nods each, but if you count the vids Rihanna is featured in, including "Take Care" with Drake, she's nominated 11 times. Katy Perry comes in just behind them with four nominations. …
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  The Very Best on Hanging with Hyenas and Ezra Koenig

  July 13, 2012 – Given that the Very Best are the result of a less-then-immediately-intuitive cultural collaboration between a Malawian singer, Esau Mwamwaya, and a Swedish producer, Johan Hugo, it's fitting that the M.I.A.-approved band's second full-length of buoyant world-pop, MTMTMK, out July 17, was the product of some unusual circumstances. …
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  Hear the Unfinished 'Baby' M.I.A. Was Writing for Madonna

  July 10, 2012 – Every bad boy has his soft side, those old Monster Ballads commercials used to assure us. …
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  Hear M.I.A.'s Party-Starting 'Bad Girls - Leo Justi Remix'

  June 28, 2012 – Sometimes bad girls wanna talk that talk, and sometimes they just wanna have fun. The two remixes to surface so far from M.I.A.'s Bad Girls - the Remixes, due out July 3 both as a download and as a Beyoncé-approved USB necklace, brandish some of the fiercest female spitters available (Missy Elliott, Azealia Banks, Rye Rye). …
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  Triple Trouble: Azealia Banks, Missy Elliott Join M.I.A.'s 'Bad Girls'

  June 26, 2012 – Live fast. Die young. Leave plenty of (beautiful) remixes. Former Major Lazer half Switch's brilliantly "bangin', bangin'" reworking of M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls" surfaced last week, featuring sharp-tongued verses from Missy Elliott and Rye Rye. …
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  M.I.A. and the USB Jewelry Revolution

  June 26, 2012 – When M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls" remixes drop in the corporeal world, they'll exist paradoxically in the tactical ether: on USB necklaces that look like a gilded Beamer ignition key. For $50, you can cop the late-'80s rap look in the new millennium — repping Maya, adbusting, cyber-reality, and feckless stunt-driving all at the same time. …
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  M.I.A. Does It Well: Hear Switch's 'Bad Girls' Remix With Missy Elliott and Rye Rye

  June 21, 2012 – Ah, yes, here's further proof of the prescience of Beyoncé's 4 player-replacer "Run the World (Girls)." On Sunday night, the San Francisco pop-rock band Girls' music appeared on the HBO post-mumblecore show Girls, reversing an earlier apparent beef launched from the Twitter account of frontman Christopher Owens. Now, M.I.A. …
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  Rye Rye: 'I'm Trying to Be a Role Model'

  May 17, 2012 – In 2009, sassy Baltimore Club MC Rye Rye, a then-recent addition to M.I.A.'s N.E.E.T. Recordings entourage, was set to release her debut album to an eagerly awaiting audience. …
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  Hear Rye Rye's Slithery M.I.A. Team-Up 'Rock Off Shake Off'

  May 10, 2012 – Rye Rye and M.I.A. are together again, this time in a tantalizing taster for the Baltimore rapper's May 15 debut album on nascent beer-bottle designer Maya Arulpragasam's N.E.E.T. imprint (via the Hairpin). …
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  M.I.A. on Her New Music and New Job: Designing Beer Bottles

  May 7, 2012 – After MIA's action-packed 2010, which included both the commercial release of /\/\/\Y/\ and the mixtape Vicki Leekx — the latter, arguably her best work since Arular — the lightning rod that is Maya Arulpragasam has been fairly low-key (the stunning "Bad Girls" video notwithstanding). …
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