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M.I.A. - Unbreak My Mixtape

M.I.A. - Unbreak My Mixtape Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: not on an album
Released: 2013

Unbreak My Mixtape Lyrics

Unbreak My Mixtape

This drum and bass breakup anthem finds M.I.A. addressing an ex by sending him a song chock full of references to other ditties. She croons:

"Here's a mixtape that I made, let's take a break
Don't wanna fuss away, baby if it's too late
While I get my life so it is a mixtape."

The song title is a reference to Toni Braxton's "Un-Break My Heart," whilst tunes sampled include Carly Simon's "Why," Fresh 4's cover of Rose Royce's "Wishing On A Star" and the acoustic guitar and vocal from Blur's "Tender." There is an extended snippet of Karen Dalton's "I Love You More Than Words Can Say" at the end.

M.I.A. - Warriors

M.I.A. - Warriors Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Matangi
Released: 2013

Warriors Lyrics

Om

I tick tick tick I collected my ticks
Top dog even though I didn’t speak no English
Guess I got grit 'cause I suffer for my shit
Guess I came from the sticks and moved to the bricks
You can’t fix this 'cause I’m in the same mix
Guess I’m in the air you can smell me like Vicks
This chicks bringing back this
It’s my last wish
One snare one kick oh look at this

I freak in minds like
Giddy up giddy up giddy up
Come take a ride
Light the city up city up city up
You’ve got me fired up
Sound boy got me back up
I keep my head downbeat it up beat it up beat it up

M.i.a
Warriors in the dance
Warriors in the dance
Gangsters bangers were puttin' 'em in a trance
Put them in a trance

Om

We’re putting em in a trance
Warriors in a dance
W-w-w-warriors in a dance
W-w-w-warriors in a dance
Warriors in a dance
W-w-w-warriors in a dance
W-w-w-warriors in a dance
I tick tick tick I collected my ticks

Top dog even though I didn’t speak no English
Guess I got grit 'cause I suffer for my shit
Guess I came from the sticks and moved to the bricks
You can’t fix this 'cause I’m in the same mix
Guess I’m in the air you can smell me like Vicks
This chicks bringing back this
It’s my last wish
One snare one kick oh look at this

M.I.A.
Warriors in the dance
Warriors in the dance
Gangsters bangers were puttin 'em in a trance
Put them in a trance

Om

We're putting them in a trance

Warriors in the dance
Warriors in the dance

Om

M.I.A. murda middle finger
Fuck 'em other bitches that try to be my ringer
This time I come as singer
Next time ill come as pain
I ain't talking money
But I can make it rain
Bitches try to get me with
Their witches on cocaine
Snitches turn to dust
And I wash em down the drain
Vitamins for your brain
Protein for your weight gain
Warriors in the dance
This is how we train!

Writer/s: HOLLIS, CHAUNCEY A. / ARULPRAGASAM, MATHANGI
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Warriors

The Middle Eastern influenced beat for this song was supplied by Hit-Boy. It's one of several tracks that he did for Matangi, though only three made the final tracklisting (the other two were "Boom Skit" and "Sexodus"). The producer is most famous for his work on "Niggas in Paris" by Jay-Z and Kanye West, and Kendrick Lamar's "Backseat Freestyle," but he was enthusiastic about the tracks he produced for M.I.A. "I just did seven songs on her new album," he told CBS. "We just locked in the studio and just vibed and we did seven incredible records."
He added: "She's just like really creative. She's doing exactly what comes to her. That's why we were able to crank out that many songs."

The sample that bookends the track is taken from Spanish dance artist Chimo Bayo's "Así Me Gusta a Mí (X-Ta Sí, X-Ta No)." It is a 1991 tune that was a major hit in Spain, Greece and South America as well as reaching #1 in Japan, Israel and several other countries.

M.I.A. - Boom Skit

M.I.A. - Boom Skit Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Matangi
Released: 2013

Boom Skit Lyrics

Brown gal, brown gal, turn your shit down
You know America don’t wanna hear your sound
Boom boom jungle music, go back to India
With your crazy shit, you’re bumming up the area
Looking through your Instagram, looking for a pentagram
All I see is poor people, they should be on ghetto-gram
You don’t get our underground, Bro-fest are overground
Fist pump, eat, hammer, even throw your dick around
Yeah you try to stick around do you do your bic around?
Let you into superbowl you tried to steal Madonna’s crown
What the fuck you on about?
Think about goin to France, quelle heure est-il?
Its the time to do the terror dance
Eat, pray, love, spend time in the Ashram
Or I’ll drone you, Kony 2012 you now scram!

(Boom shaka laka boom)
(Boom shaka laka boom)
(Boom shaka laka boom)
(Boom shaka laka boom)
(Boom shaka laka boom)
(Boom shaka laka boom)
(Boom shaka laka boom)
(Boom shaka laka boom)
(Boom shaka laka boom)
(Boom shaka laka boom)
(Boom shaka laka boom)
(Boom shaka laka boom)

Writer/s: HOLLIS, CHAUNCEY A. / ARULPRAGASAM, MATHANGI
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Boom Skit

When M.I.A. performed "Give Me All Your Luvin'" with Madonna and Nicki Minaj at the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show, she controversially extended her middle finger to the camera. The NFL responded by filing a lawsuit against M.I.A. for $1.5 million in damages and demanding a public apology from her. The ever-provocative singer-songwriter references the issue here over a 76-second Hit-Boy beat: "Let you in to Super Bowl you try to steal Madonna's crown. What the f--k you on about?"

M.I.A. - Exodus

M.I.A. - Exodus Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Matangi
Released: 2013

Exodus Lyrics

Do you wanna come with the sexy girls
If you got swag, fuck with us
And do you wanna ride like a crusader?
You ain't gotta Christian Dior (christ endour)
My blood type is no negative
But I'm positive that I'm too deep
Switch the light on when we hit the sheets
Truly what I see is all I keep
I see you stacked chicks their views are blocked in
When I help 'em you say broke in
I see you locked in you say I don't let you in
How come all this drama's still trending

Baby you can have it all
Tell me what for
Baby you can have it all
Tell me what for

New frontier I got news from there
Let's sail it to a new frequency
I left the graveyard selling full of fancy
Bring your homie with transparency
My blood type is no negative
But I'm positive the dark ain't deep
Just switch your light on
when we hit the streets truly what I see is all I keep
My sights are set in higher times
And my eyes can see in 3D
Make it bright and I see 360
I can get you, but you can't get me

Baby you can have it all
Tell me what for
Baby you can have it all
Tell me what for

Yeah you keep on telling me you wanna have it all
Tell me what for
Yeah you keep on telling me you wanna have it all
Tell me what for

Cash and Kashmir, gold in Zaier
I got a new want from over there
You can drink a mint tea by the Red Sea
As you're living out whose fantasy
Yeah the sun the moon are both
Hitting the hood and the heat's too hot to be cool
Yeah I'm sailing my bed to a better man school
And it's two in the afternoon
We already bullet-proof we got a big crew
And we're running on a force that's true
We don't fear you wear up-to-date shoes
Or fall for the point of view

Baby you can have it all
Tell me what for
Baby you can have it all
Tell me what for

Yeah you keep on telling me you wanna have it all
Tell me what for
Yeah you keep on telling me you wanna have it all
Tell me what for

What d'you want it all for?
What d'you want it all for?

Writer/s: MONTAGNESE, CARLO / ARULPRAGASAM, MAYA / HOLLIS, CHAUNCEY / MCKINNEY, MARTIN / TAYLOR, DAVE / TESFAYE, ABEL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, IMAGEM U.S. LLC, WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Exodus

This Trip-Hoppy song finds M.I.A. sampling the Weeknd's vocals from "Lonely Star," a track from the R&B singer-songwriter's mixtape Thursday. The Sri Lanka native told MTV News that she tapped his producer Doc McKinney to nail down the proper sound. "When I first heard ['Lonely Star'], I wanted to make a remix version but then the song grew," she said. "I sang on top of the song, but when I heard it back it didn't really make sense as a remix so it [became a] totally different concept, and then it grew into a full song."

M.I.A. reprises the song later on Matangi with an alternative version titled "Sexodus."