M.I.A Blasts MTV Censorship

M.I.A has accused MTV of censorship after they heavily edited the video for her latest single ‘Paper Planes’.

The British born rapper vented her anger is a myspace blog after the channel changed the sound of her vocals and removed gunshots from the promo.

She wrote: "I made the Paper Planes video. I made it how they wanted. No violence. Ambiguous. MTV-friendly.

“Now today, I check YouTube and see the leaked MTV Paper Planes video up for the first time. I clicked on it and out comes this ****ed up mess with double-tracked bullshitt mess. Who the **** is doing this to me?”

She added: "The video was sabotaged for whatever reason and I'm disappointed that MTV has had such a major role in this.

“I did fight for the sound, because putting meanings in your videos, in my opinion, is a dying art. I can film myself anywhere, anytime and let you know the truth, but the song is what I wanted to preserve in this case."

The singer also went to slam US programme the Late Show With David Letterman which aired a different version of the track having previously approved the original a soundtrack.

She wrote: "I was able to sound check for that show and they let me sound check fine, then on the actual taping my sound was sooo (sic) different from what I'd agreed.

"As soon as I opened my mouth, the difference blew me away. I felt I was getting bullied on national television, and I couldn't even reach out to my labels or my management to help, since they are new to what happens to an artist like me in mainstream American culture."