M.I.A. is back with a bang. The rebellious rapper debuts her boisterous new single, “Bring the Noize,” which pays tribute to Public Enemy’s 1987 song of the same name.

“Bring the noize when we run upon dem,” she raps on the drum-heavy record, produced by Switch and Surkin.

“It was written in lots of different circumstances, but I guess it’s coming out at a time where I think in America it’s kinda cool to hear something like this,” M.I.A. told Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1. “It’s in keeping with what I released before, so I’m gonna gradually ease people into the new sound as the album goes on.”

Her fourth album Matangi is due this fall on N.E.E.T./Interscope. “I’ve given up at this point,” she said of the oft-delayed project. “I was literally just kinda gonna start making records and putting them out from the bedroom straight on the Internet. This is my last stab at it.”

The video will premiere June 21 on Noisey.com, and she will perform three club dates leading up to the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago on July 21.

Listen to M.I.A. “Bring the Noize” below.

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M.I.A. is coming back with a bang. The British rapper is set to premiere her new single “Bring the Noize” next week.

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M.I.A. is fighting a new battle, and this time it involves her four-year-old son. The “Paper Planes” hitmaker took to Twitter to air out her custody battle with the boy’s father, Benjamin Bronfman.

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M.I.A. brings the noise with her Matangi mix. The project, a collaboration with fashion house Kenzo, serves as a prequel to her upcoming fourth album of the same name. Over an eight-and-a-half-minute track, the Sri Lankan powerhouse cooks up a cacophony of sounds including tribal rhythms, heavy drums, and Hindi chants. Her vocals aren’t heard until five minutes in.

“I’m thankful for my hands ’cause it’s a good thrower/ I’m thankful for my body ’cause it’s a fu**ing banger/ I’m thankful for my mouth ’cause it’s a real screamer/ But most of all, I’m thankful for…my power!” she declares.

M.I.A. has recorded “seven incredible records” for Matangi with Hit-Boy. “She’s really creative,” said the “Ni**as in Paris” producer. “She’s doing exactly what comes to her. That’s why we were able to crank out that many songs.”

Blast off with her sonic explosion.

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M.I.A. and Rita Ora brought their hits to the catwalk at the Etam Live Lingerie Show in Paris. The blonde Brit heat up the runway with her single “How We Do (Party)” and M.I.A. closed out the show with “Bad Girls” as models paraded in their bras and underwear. Other performers included Lily Allen, Lykke Li, and Selah Sue.

See them strut their stuff below.

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Hit-Boy has worked with everyone from Jay-Z and Kanye West to Britney Spears and Rihanna. Now the Grammy-winning producer is teaming up with M.I.A. for her new album.

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Get your lighters up. On the one-year anniversary of “Bad Girls,” Danja unleashes a previously unreleased track from M.I.A. called “Doobie” as part of his “Throwback Track Thursday.”

While driving through L.A. in his car, the super-producer (Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake) introduces the blistering banger, which was recorded at the same time as the Grammy-nominated “Bad Girls” in 2007.

“I spy with my little eye, something that can get you high,” raps M.I.A. over heavy-hitting drums.

Watch the video and hear the song, which starts at the 2:34 mark.

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Beyoncé proved why she deserves the title of “Sexiest Woman of the 21st Century” with her sizzling GQ cover, but there are some other sexy ladies vying for the honor. With 987 more years left in this millennium, the editors at GQ have revealed the other 99 women who make them drool.

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