M.I.A. was dripping in gold while attending the Versace Haute Couture show during Paris Fashion Week. The “Bad Girls” rapper donned vintage Gianni Versace, grabbing a front row seat alongside actresses Elizabeth Banks, Christina Hendricks, and Jessica Alba. Now signed to a management deal with Roc Nation, M.I.A. wants her fourth album Matangi to drop on December 12, 2012. “I want my Lp out 12.12.12 !!!!” she tweeted.

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Missy Elliott and Rye Rye joined M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls” club on the Switch remix to her single, which debuted yesterday. Now Azealia Banks polishes off a rapid-fire verse for the Danja-produced N.A.R.S. remix.

“Bitches tried to shimmy my shake/ Bitches tried to Diddy my Ma$e,” spits the firecracker femcee, while Missy’s bars from the Switch mix remain the same.

Both remixes can be found on M.I.A.’s Bad Girls – The Remixes EP, hitting iTunes on July 3. For $50, you can also purchase the gold-plated USB key necklace with the Switch, Danja, and Leo Justi remixes, plus bonus content.

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Live fast, die young. Missy Elliott and Rye Rye do it well on the Switch-produced remix to M.I.A.’s single “Bad Girls,” which features vocals from the Sri Lankan rapper’s three-year-old son Ikhyd.

If you’re wondering what happened to Azealia Banks, she will appear on the Danja-produced N.A.R.S. remix featuring Missy. You can find the Switch, Danja, and Leo Justi versions on Bad Girls – The Remixes, available July 3.

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M.I.A. is switching up her style once again. The newest member of the Roc Nation family rocked bright red hair in a photo posted on Twitter. The fashion chameleon has been a brunette and blonde in the past.

“Going red square!” tweeted the “Bad Girls” rapper, who is readying a remix to her single with Missy Elliott, Azealia Banks, and Rye Rye.

M.I.A.’s fourth album Matangi is due this fall.

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M.I.A. has always been a rock star, but now it’s official. The “Paper Planes” rapper has inked a management deal with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation.

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Here comes trouble. Rihanna met up with fellow bad girl M.I.A. backstage at Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Watch the Throne” tour at the O2 Arena in London on Sunday night. RiRi joined the hip-hop duo onstage for “All of the Lights” and “Run This Town,” while M.I.A. watched from the audience.

“Bad girls do it well,” tweeted the pop starlet, who won Top Streaming Artist at the Billboard Music Awards.

M.I.A. is readying the remix to “Bad Girls” with Missy Elliott, Azealia Banks, and Rye Rye. Is it too late to add one more to that list?

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M.I.A. can do bad all by herself, but she’s taking it to another level with the remix to her single “Bad Girls” featuring a few fierce femcees.

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M.I.A. has been in the headlines for her Super Bowl stunt and controversial comments, but she’s turning the spotlight back on her art by designing a limited edition label for Beck’s Beer.

“I guess I’m most known for creating a lot of controversy,” said the “Bad Girls” rapper. “But I don’t want to be defined by that. I’m here to shift it back to the art.”

While she admits to not being much of a beer drinker, the “Live Beyond Labels” collaboration just made sense. “I was inspired by some sort of new, something abstract. A new beginning,” she told SPIN. “It was important to go there and start fresh, just letting go of everything. You get attached to what you were inspired by before and finding inspiration in what it is.”

The 36-year-old is putting the finishing touches on Matangi, the follow-up to her 2010 album /\/\/\Y/\. “I’ve been working on the songs by myself for awhile, and towards the end I got [producer] Switch to sort of bring it together and contribute new songs for it as well,” she said. “But I’m trying to work with tons of people, I don’t really wanna say any names because I haven’t actually chosen what songs are going on it yet.”

M.I.A.’s Beck’s label will be available this summer as one of six limited edition bottles created by artists from around the world.

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