Kid Cudi Drops MIA From Tour After ‘Offensive Remarks’ as Opener
Kid Cudi has dropped MINE from her Rebel Ragers Tour after she made “offensive remarks” whereas serving as opener at a current gig.
At a May 2 tour cease at Dallas’ Dos Equis Pavilion, MIA instructed the group, “I’ve been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter,” Variety reports. The rapper added that she would not carry out her track “Illegal” as a result of “there’s probably one in the crowd.”
MIA’s rants drew criticism from followers who got here to see Kid Cudi’s tour, main the rapper to announce Monday that MIA had been dropped from her help slot for the rest of the trek.
“TOUR UPDATE: MIA is no longer on this tour,” Kid Cudi wrote on social media. “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, because I already knew what time it was, and I was assured things were understood.”
Kid Cudi continued, “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 won’t have someone on my tour making offensive remarks that upsets my fanbase. Thank you for understanding. Rager.”
MIA, who not too long ago launched her new album MI7, you haven’t but commented on her dismissal. The rapper has been candid about his polarizing politics lately, since spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine to promoting a line of anti-5G clothes by way of The Alex Jones Show to help Donald Trump within the 2024 presidential election.
MINE respond to the news with a sequence of posts on X, defined that defined that “Illygirl” was a track she wrote for her 2010 album Maya. “Do not gas light my words,” she wrote. “That is the work of Satan. I wrote ‘Borders’ and ‘Illygirl’ and ‘Paper Planes’ before you thought immigrant rights were cool. I’ve had these battles by myself without the help of millions of fans backing me. I don’t need this virtue signal era to all of a sudden erase an entire life I’ve led.”
She added in response to a fan asking about her endorsing Donald Trump, “Don’t be an agent of division, I can’t vote in the US, and 48 per cent of Latin community voted Trump. So are you going to hate them all? We must unite to make this country, that everyone wants to live in a better place. If you are easily led by rumor then you don’t see the light for yourself. I pray for your awakening.”
The Rebel Ragers Tour continues Wednesday in Atlanta, presumably with a brand new opener.
This publish was up to date on May 5 at 3:25 am ET with MIA’s response.
