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M.I.A. Kicked Off Kid Cudi Tour After Getting Booed In Dallas For “Republican” Remarks
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Tom Breihan
1:21 PM EDT on May 4, 2026
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M.I.A.'s descent into right-wing absurdity is nothing new. Back in 2022, she
compared
Alex Jones' lies about the Sandy Hook mass shooting to "every celebrity pushing vaccines." In 2024, she
went on
The Alex Jones Show
to launch her line of clothes that supposedly block 5G signals. Last month, she dropped her "gospel" album
M.I.7
and
introduced a new clothing line
, this one designed to block 10G signals. Now, after some ill-received stage banter at a Kid Cudi show in Dallas, she's gotten herself kicked off of a big summer tour.
For the past week, M.I.A. has been opening for Kid Cudi on his Rebel Ragers Tour; the extremely 2010 lineup also features acts like Big Boi and A-Trak. On Saturday night, the tour came to Dallas' Dos Equis Pavilion. According to a
couple
of
posts
on Kid Cudi's subreddit, M.I.A. told the crowd, "I’ve been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter." The crowd reportedly booed her.
m.i.a telling dallas she’s a republican and getting booed im crying
— syd gracie (@sydsburnbook)
May 3, 2026
Right now, there's no video of that moment online, but there is video of another moment from M.I.A.'s set. She briefly teased a song apparently called "Illegal," and then she told the crowd, "Can't do 'Illegal' 'cause some of you could be in the audience." When the crowd booed that line, which I guess was supposed to be a joke, she said, "All right,
I'm
illegal. Half of my team are not here because they didn't get the visa, OK? I want you to know that. All right? So don't listen to what the bots say on the internet, OK?"
In videos from the Dallas show, it looks like M.I.A. is wearing her anti-10G clothes. One of the redditors who posted about her appearance said that she cut her set short, playing "Paper Planes" and then leaving. They also theorize that someone piped in fake cheers for the rest of her set.
On his Instagram story this afternoon, Kid Cudi wrote that M.I.A. is "no longer on this tour" and said that he made it clear to her that he didn't want "anything offensive at my shows." Here's what he wrote:
TOUR UPDATE
M.I.A is no longer on this tour. I told my management to send a notice to her team before we started tour that I didnt 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've 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.
Rager
Here's some video of that "illegal" moment in Dallas.
@rezznikvyst
I mean at least I saw her before she gets kicked off this tour
#mia
#kidcudi
#dallas
♬ original sound - Rezznikvyst
@trippinsippuhh
everyone booing M.I.A after she went on her political rant
#mia
#kidcudi
#politics
#smh
she said she had a song called ‘illegal but couldn’t play it bc there might be someone in the crowd’ then proceeded to “make it better” by saying her teams visas got denied and she’s illegal? SMH
♬ original sound - trippinsippuh
@ayoungghoo
She was saying a whole bunch of bull bro
#kidcudi
#politics
#fyp
#viral
#dtx
♬ original sound - ﾒ?
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