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Kid Cudi removes M.I.A. from Rebel Ragers Tour after fan complaints over onstage remarks
Kid Cudi has dropped M.I.A. from the Rebel Ragers Tour after fan complaints about “offensive remarks” at recent shows. M.I.A. has responded on social media, defending her comments and rejecting calls to apologize.
Kid Cudi has removed M.I.A. as the opening act on his current Rebel Ragers Tour, confirming the decision in a statement posted May 4.
Cudi said he acted after receiving heavy fan backlash tied to comments M.I.A. made at the last two dates. “TOUR UPDATE: M.I.A is no longer on this tour,” he wrote on Instagram. He added that his team had warned hers before the run began that he did not want “anything offensive” said onstage.
The tour opened April 28 in Phoenix. At the Dallas stop on May 2 at Don Equis Pavilion, M.I.A. was booed after telling the crowd, “I can’t do ‘Illegal’, though some of you could be in the audience,” and “I’ve been cancelled for many reasons, I never thought I would be cancelled for being a brown Republican voter.”
In the same post, Cudi said: “After the last couple shows, I’ve been flooded with messages from fans that were upset by her rants. This, to me, is very disappointing, and I wont have someone on my tour making offensive remarks that upsets my fanbase.”
M.I.A. later responded on social media, telling critics not to “gas light my words,” which she described as “the work of Satan.” She referenced her earlier songs Borders, Illegal, and Paper Planes, writing that she had addressed immigration politics long before it became mainstream.
She also posted that she had opened her set by saying, “I’m illygal,” and claimed the context was about visa issues affecting her team. In that message, she repeated her stance against laws she considers unjust.
After another user brought up her past support for Donald Trump, M.I.A. replied that she cannot vote in the US and argued against political division, pointing to Latino Trump support figures in her post.
Ahead of the 2024 election cycle, M.I.A. publicly backed Trump and said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should succeed him in the future. She has also faced criticism in recent years for comments comparing Alex Jones-related misinformation fallout to celebrity promotion of COVID-19 vaccines; she later said she is “not really” anti-vaccine.
Last month, M.I.A. released M.I.7 and announced a clothing line she says blocks 10G signals.
