M.I.A. educates Aussie crims with her music
Shortly before her world tour takes her to Tokyo and the USA, UK / Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. has paused in Australia for some do-gooding. The rapper popped in to an Aussie detention centre to teach the crims some musical skills.
Apparently she was invited to the centre to help teach female young offenders and help them make some music of their own (as if they hadn’t already done enough damage to society). This culminated in a collaboration between M.I.A. and the jailbirds which will is now set for release in Australia.
Female First quote the singer as saying: “All the girls just wanted to gangster-rap, but we had to make a censored version and an uncensored version, cos they just wanted to be like, ‘F**k the police’. We used the doors shutting in the prison; all the random noises they made to make the beat, and then we made sure that all the girls got a go rapping on it and stuff, and they just did their thing. It was really cool.”
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“as if they hadn’t already done enough damage to society”
This is a horribly narrow minded view. Yes, prisons contain criminals, but they are there for the reform of inmates. Not the damnation of those ‘paying their debts to society’.
I find this an offensively Daily Mail view, disappointing for the generally more liberalist view of passionate music lovers through history, of which music writers should surely count themselves.