British rapper M.I.A. criticized Jay-Z in a recent video, alleging that he advised her to undergo surgery when she first signed to his music label, Roc Nation.
“Even when I met Jay-Z and I signed to Roc Nation, the first thing he told me to do is get plastic surgery,” the Paper Planes singer, born Mathangi ‘Maya’ Arulpragasam, said in a recent video obtained by Livebitez.
“So their argument of, ‘Maya’s f**king insecure, that’s why she needs to f**king massage her ego,’ fails. It fails. Fails because you turn around and ask, What women do you know who hasn’t had plastic surgery around him (Jay-Z)?
“All of them have. I’m the only one who didn’t, which already proves the fact it’s not insecurity.”
M.I.A. said if she was insecure she “would’ve done that 100 times over”.
M.I.A. joined Roc Nation management in May 2012 in anticipation of releasing her fourth album, Matangi. However, she decided to leave the label in December 2013 after they removed a trailer for a documentary about the album’s production.
These comments from M.I.A. came shortly before Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs were accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in a lawsuit filed in October.