Rapper M.I.A. has posted the whole her latest album 'Matangi' on YouTube just days before its official release.
The 'Paper Planes' creator started streaming the record via her VEVO page on November 2, two days before the official release via her record label Interscope Records. The album's release has been postponed multiple times throughout the year after initially being announced as due out in January.
'Matangi' is M.I.A.'s fourth album (WENN)
Since being revealed online the album has been listened to by plenty of eager fans, with the title track being played over 60,000 times so far. The star has openly chatted about the record a number of times this year, explaining that she wouldn't be attempting any dubstep.
"In the last two years it's been cool to do dark s**t," she told NME. "Everyone's been slowing your s**t down and making you slur. That's not 'Matangi'."
After experiencing writer's block and being unsure of what direction to take her fourth album in, M.I.A. eventually settled on using the hindu Goddess 'Matangi' as inspiration after learning her own name 'Mathangi' is derived from it.
"I found a whole new way of looking at [music] -somebody saying it's so important they made a goddess for it who protected the meaning of music, the frequencies, the sonics," she told Billboard. "It's making music without treating it as a business or as a game or as a competition."
Singles 'Bad Girls', 'Come Walk With Me' and 'Bring The Noize' all feature on M.I.A's fourth studio album alongside intruigingly titled new songs 'Karmageddon' and 'aTENTion'. 'Sexodus' featuring The Weeknd, has also made it onto the album, despite M.I.A.'s initial deicision to offer the track to Madonna. "I actually played that song to Madonna when I wrote it and said, 'Oh you can have this'," she told The Guardian. "She gave it back to me."
The rapper is no stranger to controversy and is still embroiled in a legal battle following her now infamous hand gesture during a performance with Madonna and Nicki Minaj at the 2012 Superbowl.
M.I.A. performnig in Canada earlier this year (Dominic Chan/WENN)
More recently, the star live-streamed a speech by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange during a gig in New York City. Explaining her reasons behind the stunt, M.I.A - who spent much of her childhood in Sri Lanka - praised Wikileaks' efforts to confirm war crimes in the country.
"He's really smart and he really defines a moment of our time and where we're living right now, and he has a lot of interesting things to say," she told MTV.
M.I.A. is signed to Jay Z's management company Roc Nation and has experienced success on both sides of the Atlantic with a top 10 single and Grammy performance both ticked off her to-do list by 2010. 'Matangi' is available for purchase now.
Listen to the full album 'Matangi' below...
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