MIA learned that Kid Cudi was removed from tour by his teenage son.
“My son called me from school from another state, and he was like, ‘Oh, you’re coming home,’ and I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ And he sent me the mail (from Cuddy),” MIA recalled Thursday on The New York Times’ “Popcast.”
“He didn’t even talk to me about it. He called my management,” she said of Cuddy. “He didn’t call me, he didn’t talk to the crew. I even made an effort to go and talk to him. He didn’t look at me.”
“Yeah, it was a little crazy,” added MIA (real name Matangi Arulpragasam).
Page Six has reached out to Cudi’s representatives for comment.
Cuddy announced on May 4 that MIA had been fired from the Rebel Ragers tour.
“MIA will no longer be on this tour,” the Grammy winner wrote on her Instagram Story at the time. “I told my manager to send notice to her team before we started the tour that I didn’t want them to do anything offensive on my show, because I was sure the time was already known and things were figured out.”
“After the last few shows, I was inundated with messages from fans who were upset by her abuse,” he added. “This is very disappointing to me. Anyone who makes offensive comments that upset my fan base will not be on my tour. Thank you for your understanding.”
Last week, the British singer, 50, sued Cudi for $2.8 million for breach of contract after he was removed from the tour.
Cudi made the decision after the “Paper Airplane” songstress was criticized by many concertgoers for making controversial comments about conservatism and illegal immigration during her performance.
In one video taken by a fan, MIA can be heard saying, “I can’t do ‘Illegal’ in the audience.”
The rapper addressed this particular instance during an appearance on “Popcast,” claiming that his words were taken as wrong and that he was not trying to denounce “illegal” immigrants in the crowd, but instead was referring to his 2010 song “Irregular Girl.”
“That’s not what’s going on. That’s what the media wrote as what’s going on. It was a perception generated, fueled and algorithmized to solidify the narrative.”
She also said she is proud to be a “brown immigrant woman” and that no one can “take away” that identity from her.
Last month, MIA also asked X to explain his statements after a fan claimed that he “started randomly talking about how he’s a Republican” and “started talking about how he probably had to play a lot of illegal songs at that concert (sic).”
“I wrote the song ‘ILLYGAL’ for my 2010 LP ‘MAYA’. The intro to the song starts with the declaration ‘I’m illegal’ and then goes on to say ‘my team hasn’t gotten their visa yet,'” she wrote.
“Then I played a song with the lyrics ‘The law is unjust.’ If the law is unjust, I still believe so. Don’t gaslight my words. It’s the work of Satan.”
