What you say can come back to bite you, and M.I.A. has learned that. Recently, M.I.A. took to her Twitter account to share a few thoughts about modern medicine. The rapper tweeted that if a vaccination should present itself, she would rather choose death. The backlash was swift, and soon, M.I.A. would return to clarify that she isn’t anti-vaccination or anti-vaxx, but she does take issue with the pharmaceutical industry.

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The rapper resurfaced on social media with a gripe after she claims she was nixed from British Vogue. According to her, she was all set to be featured in the coveted magazine, but because of her recent anti-vaxx comments, they decided to cancel it altogether. “Considering our August is an issue where we’re chronicling the struggles of the NHS to cope while a vaccine is tried to be made we don’t feel we can have her involved,” a screenshot of a text message shared by M.I.A. revealed.

According to Forbes, the rapper retorted, “I missed a lot of vaccines and PLOT TWIST: I’m still alive. If I don’t make it past this age, that’s okay, I don’t have to live as a hypochondriac and inject myself with five hundred million zillion vaccines to stay alive.” She added, “If you don’t have the vaccine, are you invisible in society? Should you be canceled? You’d be tracked and quarantined to a space where you’re not allowed to go to certain concerts—not allowed to do certain things? What is the structure of society that’s going to be built based on this.”

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After getting an onslaught of criticism online and in the media, M.I.A. is backtracking on her recent comments about vaccines. The topic of conversation every day, almost all day, is COVID-19. Tens of millions of people are under "Stay At Home" orders by their respective governments as researchers attempt to find a cure for coronavirus. Last week, M.I.A. took to her Twitter to share that she'd rather see the grave than use a vaccine.

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"If I have to choose the vaccine or chip I'm gonna choose death," she tweeted. M.I.A. followed up her ominous anti-vaxx statement encouraging her followers, telling them not to live in fear. On Friday (April 3), the rapper returned to clarify her true feelings about vaccinations as she explained that she's not anti-vaxx at all.

"I'm not against vaccines. I'm against companies who care more for profit then humans," M.I.A. tweeted to a Twitter user. "I care for better track record that proves this. I care that African countries are not always the testing ground. I don't want it coming from banks / tech /hedge fund sector and I want a choice." Check out her original tweet and her follow-up below. Would you reject vaccination for COVID-19 if you contracted the virus and there was a cure?

In a world where the masses are hoping for a cure to coronavirus, M.I.A. revealed that she is against vaccination. She made a declaration on Twitter that "If I have to choose the vaccine or chip I'm gonna choose death." Some people thought that the artist's remarks were inappropriate, especially because medical professionals are working overtime to find a vaccine to COVID-19.

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Users began to condemn M.I.A. but she shared her story of why she decided to become Anti-Vaxx. "Yeah in America they made me [vaccinate] my child before the school admission," she wrote. "It was the hardest thing. To not have choice over this as a mother. I never wanna feel that again. He was so sick for 3 weeks then Docs had to pump him with antibiotics to reduce the fever from 3 vaxins."

She later sent out tweets telling the public not to live in fear while encouraging them with affirmations of health and positivity. However, people continued with disapproving comments while some called for M.I.A. to be "canceled." It would do much good since she said it was "irrelevant" anyway. It's clear that vaccinations continue to be a polarizing topic of conversation. Check out a few tweets below.

M.I.A. has launched her own Patreon.

As for what she’ll be doing with the page, she explains that she would like to do a bit of everything: “I also want to make this fun and random: It might be ASMR Sri Lankan cooking, or I might go and stay in a silent Ashram in India for a month and just not speak, or I want to interview interesting people, do some reporting, make clothes, make paintings, just see where it takes me.”

She feels traditional platforms are too limiting and fake. She also called out platforms for selling users data to Cambridge Analytica: “I’m doing a Patreon, because I make so much stuff and record so many things that aren’t music and don’t fit on other platforms,” M.I.A. told Rolling Stone. “I’ve tried all the other platforms and it’s like: this one is too mean and hateful, this one is too fake and self-obsessed, and this one just sells all your data to Cambridge Analytica… Hopefully, this one is going to be just right.”

She went on, “I want to use the subscription money to feedback into the Patreon page; I want to really go and do a project that can help some people. Build a school or put on an exhibition, help upcoming artists or even build something you guys want me to build. It’s [an] evolutionary process. I want to get back to using the internet in a positive way; I don’t want to be an influencer. I want to be a truth dispenser.”

Check out M.I.A.’s Patreon here. 

After what’s felt like forever — OK, a little over three-and-a-half years, but still! — international rap-singer M.I.A. will finally be dropping new music on the pop world, and it’s slated to arrive as early as this coming Friday.

“NEW DECADE, NEW MIA, EXPLORING PLANETS AND PLATFORMS, JOIN ME, JAN 31ST 2020,” was all she wrote to describe the new tunes Instagram (seen above), accompanied by a short sound preview that sounds exactly like what we’d expect from the eclectic musician. Big bass, catchy vibes and culturally-significant sonics that play into her Sri Lankan roots are what we’re picking up on from the first listen. The post was also paired with a video in the second slide, which shows M.I.A. donning pink hair and mouthing something that could be lyrics or could be the title of the song/album she’s gearing up to release this week. We’ll let the super fans decode that one, but for now we’re just excited to know that one of pop music’s most forward-thinking and oftentimes politically-driven voices will be doing it all over again to start off the next era in her career. We love to see it!

Expect M.I.A. to make her return to music this Friday (January 31), but peep one of her last singles off 2016’s AIM that could give us a hint at what vibe she’s on now: