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"Sunshowers" M.I.A 2004
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This song allegedly got Maya Arulpragasm, the British-Tamil refugee daughter of a "freedom-fighting dad," banned from America. It definitely got the video banned from MTV thanks to her refusal to remove the "Like PLO, I don't surrend-o" line. Though less famous than "Paper Planes," M.I.A.'s tribal beat-based "Sunshowers" has far more political punch as her rhymes touch everything from terrorism and gun culture to Islamaphobia and sweatshops.
