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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He... →
Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad... →
I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
You have to constantly redefine who you are.
At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was... →
I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an... →