Rap-Up.com || M.I.A. Takes to the Sky to Announce Album Release Date

If you want to know the release date for M.I.A.’s upcoming album, it is written in the stars.

During Jay-Z’s set at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on Friday (April 16), a blimp carrying a digital billboard flew over the crowd advertising the “Paper Planes” rapper’s appearances at the HARD Summer Music Festival in Los Angeles and New York, as well as the drop date for her third LP.

“New Album 6.29.10” flashed across the scrolling ticker as it soared above concertgoers. The follow-up to 2007′s Kala will feature production from Rusko and Blaqstarr, and tentatively arrive on the same date as her protégée Rye Rye’s debut effort Go! Pop! Bang!

Next week, M.I.A. will premiere a viral video for “Born Free,” a song she first debuted at San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival last August.

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12 Comments

BlackNLatin
April 18th, 2010 at 7:51 am
finally a release date!! Damn!

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UltraKid
April 18th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Yes!!!

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TheLastGirlOnEarth
April 18th, 2010 at 9:07 am
Yes! I cannot wait =)

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James Barnett
April 18th, 2010 at 10:14 am
M.I.A. is goin’ hard this year.

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Kyle
April 18th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Wow, so if there are no push-backs that day, that mean M.I.A, Rye Rye, and Teairra Mari are dropping albums that day. And the next week, KELIS!!! This summer is going to be super hot with all this new music dropping.

Can’t wait though for some new M.I.A, I remember I bought “Kala” on the day it came out in 2007 and fell in love with it instantly. Then a year later people started jumping on the bangwagon. SMH.

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UltraKid
April 18th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
@Kyle,
I remember not liking Kala the first time I heard it but it grew on me just like 808′s and Heartbreaks.

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listen
April 18th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
MIA doesn’t really sell records. Why is she so talked about? I like certain records from her, but I don’t know why it’s a big deal.

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James Barnett
April 18th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Because she’s the shit @ listen.

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Tia-Bia
April 20th, 2010 at 1:28 am
What difference does it make what she sells? She makes great music. Damn sheep just following behind bullshit b/c it sells.

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drtash
April 20th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
lol @listen. Since when did record sales mean anything. They’re plenty of crap artists right now who put out any old garbage (much of it recycled) that consumers seem to buy in buckets. The music has become so commercialized now that it’s become generic, soulless and empty garbage with no valid meaning, and then there’s the blatant racism of the media etc. what the whites get praised for something they either copied from or do less well than ppl of other races (not just black), and you get a great big mess of an industry. I’d choose M.I.A. over some of the unoriginal crap that gets spewed constantly on this site. If selling is what gives an artist credibility these days then I feel really sorry for the next generation of artists cause there’s no hope for them.

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drtash
April 20th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
sorry typo. I meant “there are”

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Erbam Dich Mien
April 20th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
I was under the impression this was coming out in July… Well all the better then!!!

Now if she’d give us a damn title and song!

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