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M.I.A. Flips Off Cameras During Super Bowl Halftime Show

Originally posted 02/06/2012 09:15AM

Call it a finger malfunction?

Madonna was supposed to be the center of attention during the Super Bowl halftime show Sunday, but the Queen of Pop was upstaged by her collaborator M.I.A., who flipped off the camera at one point during the performance, prompting swift apologies from the NFL and NBC.

"The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing and we apologize to our fans," said Brian McCarthy, spokesman for the NFL, according to the Associated Press.

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M.I.A.'s Baby Is Named Ikhyd – Not Ickitt

Originally posted 03/23/2009 04:35PM

Well, that clears that up. Sort of.

Rapper M.I.A. was beside herself when reports surfaced she named her baby Ickitt. She denied it and added sarcastically she also hadn't named her child Pickit or Lickit.

Now, according to Health Department records, it turns out the boy's name at least appears to rhyme with the rest: Ikhyd.

Full name: Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman. He arrived in this world the afternoon of Feb. 11 in Los Angeles, the first child for the Sri Lanka-born M.I.A., 31, whose real name is Mathangi Arulpragasam, and fiancé Benjamin Bronfman, 26, also a musician.

The birth came between M.I.A.'s memorable Grammy performance on Feb. 8, her original due date, and the Oscars at which her song "O Saya," from Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire, was nominated.

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M.I.A.: It's a B.O.Y!

Originally posted 02/14/2009 06:00PM

One of the great mysteries surrounding this awards season – at which ceremony would Grammy and Oscar-nominated singer M.I.A. deliver her imminent baby – has been solved: she's done it between shows, thank you very much.

The London-born Sri Lankan singer, 31, gave birth to a boy in Los Angeles on Wednesday, PEOPLE has confirmed.

On her MySpace Celebrity Blog, M.I.A. writes (in all capital letters) that on Sunday night, after the Grammys, "MY EARLY STAGE LABOUR KICKED IN AROUND 2 AM … MY BABY WAS BORN WEDNESDAY, HE IS HEALTHY, FINE, BEAUTIFUL AND THE MOST AMZING THING EVER ON THIS PLANET, OF COURSE IM HIS MUM!!!"

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Rapper M.I.A Says Pregnancy Makes Her 'Less Angry'

Originally posted 12/02/2008 12:05PM

As her song "Paper Planes" soars up the charts, rapper M.I.A. is preparing for the February arrival of her first child.

Impending motherhood has already begun to mellow out the rapper, who was born Mathangi Arulpragasam. "When I sing, I have to be aware that someone can hear me inside," she tells USA Today. "It's really strange. I definitely feel less angry."

The rapper, 31, says she and her fiancé, the Exit frontman Benjamin Brewer, have not picked out baby names yet.

"I need to see the baby and see who it is, what kind of personality it'll have," she says. "I need to give a name that is the character of the child. We're quite relaxed about the whole thing."

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