{"id":10717,"date":"2026-05-04T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/mia-kid-cudi-tour\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:06:09","slug":"mia-kid-cudi-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/mia-kid-cudi-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"M.I.A. Booted From Kid Cudi Tour After \u2018Offensive Remarks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2022\/08\/EM_MIA_BTS_POPU_SD_02_438-copy-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" alt=\"M.I.A.\"><figcaption>(photo: Emman Montalvan) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>M.I.A. has been removed from her opening slot on Kid Cudi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/01\/kid-cudi-summer-tour\/\">Rebel Ragers tour <\/a>after being booed onstage in Dallas on Saturday (May 2) for her statements about immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The artist, who is of British and Sri Lankan descent, at one point complained about being \u201ccanceled for being a brown Republican voter\u201d and then said she couldn\u2019t perform her song \u201cIllegal\u201d because \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@shalsea_mac\/video\/7635544549519068430?embed_source=121374463%2C121468991%2C121439635%2C121749182%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121497414%2C122221973%2C122122240%2C121351166%2C121811500%2C121960941%2C122122244%2C122122243%2C122122242%2C121487028%2C121679410%2C122258714%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%2C121885509%3Bnull%3Bembed_pause_share&amp;refer=embed&amp;referer_url=variety.com%2F2026%2Fmusic%2Fnews%2Fkid-cudi-fires-m-i-a-tour-republican-rant-1236736864%2F&amp;referer_video_id=7635544549519068430\" target=\"_blank\">some of you could be in the audience<\/a>.\u201d A torrent of boos followed, to which M.I.A. responded, \u201cAll right,\u00a0<em>I\u2019m<\/em>\u00a0illegal. Half of my team are not here because they didn\u2019t get the visa, OK? I want you to know that. All right? So don\u2019t listen to what the bots say on the internet, OK?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/05\/all-things-go-dc-lineup\/\">All Things Go D.C. Lands Hayley, Brandi, Zara<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/05\/tame-impala-justice-paris\/\">Watch Tame Impala Team With Justice In Paris<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/05\/noah-kahans-the-great-divide-debut\/\">Noah Kahan\u2019s \u2018Great Divide\u2019 Tops Worldwide Charts<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, Cudi took to Instagram Stories to confirm that M.I.A. would not continue on the tour, which also features support from OutKast\u2019s Big Boi and A-Trak and is scheduled to continue through June 27 in Chula Vista, Ca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cM.I.A is no longer on this tour,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI told my management to send a notice to her team before we started tour that I didn\u2019t 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\u2019ve 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. Thank you for understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year old artist born Mathangi Arulpragasam has courted controversy in recent years with her implicit support of disgraced broadcaster Alex Jones and by creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/ohmni.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">line of clothing<\/a> that claims to \u201cblock\u201d wireless broadband signals. Those products include such names as \u201cTin Foil Hat,\u201d \u201cAnti Facial Recognition Balaclava\u201d and \u201cBrain Protection Durag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/spinmagazine.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo: Emman Montalvan) M.I.A. has been removed from her opening slot on Kid Cudi\u2019s Rebel Ragers tour after being booed onstage in Dallas on Saturday (May 2) for her statements&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[727,5181,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kid-cudi","category-m-i-a","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}