Confirmed: M.I.A. Dropped As Headliner From Music Festival After Slamming ‘Black Lives Matter’

There’s one place M.I.A. will certainly be missing in action from – this year’s Afropunk Festival. The ‘Bad Girls’ beauty may have recently lived up to the title of her song more than the event organizer’s would’ve liked when she spoke out against the current ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement.

As we reported here, just a few weeks ago she took to Twitter to silence the rumor mill who initially suggested she was no longer participating in the fest:

However, the fest’s organizers later cleared up the confusion by taking to Instagram to announce she would remain the headliner for its inaugural London run.

Well, that was then…

“After discussing the situation with the artist and the community, a decision was agreed upon by all involved that M.I.A will no longer headline Afropunk London,” festival organizers said in a statement on Friday. “This community is something we are incredibly proud of, and this community will always be a priority for us.”

See their full statement below:

A message about AFROPUNK LONDON: –> http://www.afropunk.com/profiles/blogs/a-message-about-afropunk-london-1

A photo posted by AFROPUNK (@afropunk) on Jul 15, 2016 at 11:40am PDT