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Rapper Kid Cudi has kicked the singer off his tour after what he called “offensive comments” from rapper MIA about illegal immigrants and being a “Brown Republican voter.”
In a post on Monday’s Instagram feed titled, “Tour update,” Kid Cudi wrote, “MIA is no longer on tour. I told my management to send a notice to her team before we started the tour that I didn’t want anything annoying in my plans, because I already knew what time it was, and I was assured that things were understood.”
During a tour Saturday in Dallas at the Dos Equis Pavilion, MIA said, “I got canceled for a lot of reasons. I never thought I’d get canceled for being a Brown Republican voter.”
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Kid Cudi attends the 2022 Met Gala to celebrate “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 2, 2022. (Theo Wargo/WireImage)
Variety report that he also said, “I can’t do ‘Illegal,’ even though some of you may be in the audience,” and that his words were shared on social media and on forums like Reddit.
One user on Reddit posted, “Did anyone catch all that racist sh-t MIA said at the dos equis show? She did that weird thing about Indians and being a republic, then got booed on stage after she was “unlawful (her song) like half the people here” Her whole set left a bad taste in my mouth.”
Kid Cudi said he was taking MIA off the Rebel Ragers Tour, which started in Phoenix, Arizona, and is expected to hit more than 30 cities across the country, because of his lyrics.
“After the last few shows, I received messages from fans who were annoyed by his moaning,” he said. “This, to me, is very disappointing, and I will not have someone on my tour saying offensive words that offend my fans. Thank you for your understanding.”
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Rapper Kid Cudi leaves federal court in New York City after testifying in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial on May 22, 2025. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)
MIA, whose real name is Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam, has made political statements in the past.
In 2024, during the Portola Music Festival in San Francisco, he said, “Before Nicki [Minaj]there was MIA Before there was Rihanna, there was MIA Before there was Kamala Harris, there was MIA”
He added, “We want freedom in everything, even in politics and religion.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Kid Cudi and MIA for comment.
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In August 2024, MIA again appeared to endorse Trump on X after being endorsed by the former president. Robert F. Kennedy.
“Trump will ride America through the next four very challenging years pulling out the weeds, and RFK will inherit America when God is ready to replant and rebuild it in righteousness,” he wrote.
Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.
