“I was never really affected by it because I don’t have the time to go up to every grime kid and explain the ideology and the lifestyle. It’s too hard…. Look at Afrikan Boy, he still has that problem. You have this talent to see something and articulate something new, but you can’t because the arena to do that doesn’t exist. It’s easier to breed movements in England than really support one artist, especially in urban culture.”

—  M.I.A.

Interview http://web.archive.org/web/20080108025702/http://www.rwdmag.com/articles/6188/MIA-Flying-High.html to RWD magazine on the rejection of her first album Arular by the UK grime scene (2007)
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British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director 1975

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