Rapper Kid Cudi fires MIA from tour after ‘offensive’ Republican rant

Rapper Kid Cudi has fired MIA from his tour after the British artist went on a rant that went viral while on stage in Dallas. While opening up for the hip hop artist on 2 May, MIA was booed after saying: “I’ve been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter,” as reported by Variety . Today, Kid Cudi confirmed MIA would no longer be accompanying him on the road in an Instagram story post. “M.I.A. is no longer on this tour,” he wrote. “I told my management to send a notice to her team before we started tour that I didn’t want anything offensive at my shows, cuz I already knew what time it was, and I was assured things were understood. “After the last couple shows, I’ve been flooded with messages from fans that were upset by her rants. This, to me, is very disappointing and I wont have someone on my tour making offensive remarks that upsets my fanbase.” A TikTok post from the 2 May tour date shows MIA saying: “We can’t perform [my song] Illegal, though some of you could be in the audience.” After the audience booed, she she said, “All right, I’m illegal. Half of my team are not here because they didn’t get the visa, OK? I want you to know that. All right? So don’t listen to what the bots say on the internet.” After Kid Cudi’s post, MIA responded : “I wrote illygal on the Maya LP a song from 2010. I started this intro to the song with the statement saying I’m illygal, and I said my team hasn’t gotten visas yet. …