It wasn't just you and your friends who spent the last 24 hours tweeting your thoughts and feelings about the sad, surprising death of Michael Jackson. His fellow musicians have been just as distraught so we've gathered a collection of artist tweets about the late, great King of Pop.

M.I.A.: MICHAEL JACKSON the first 2 english words i eva spoke. the future sucx! Read More

?uestlove: *pours Pepsi on the sidewalk* dayum!! mj 6/25, aaliyah 9/25, static major 2/25, left eye 4/25, JB 12/25, farah & mj 6/25 Read More

Nick Cave: In the shower, humming Remember The Time and sobbing Read More

If Day Two of Coachella proved anything, it's that M.I.A. is now big enough (and good enough) to be a main stage act, but is perhaps more comfortable personally in the dance tents where chaos is often rewarded by excitement and the barrier between artist and fan is a lot smaller -- both figuratively and literally. "I really don't know how to bring it on the main stage but we're going to try," she said. And in many ways she and her sprawling entourage succeeded. But the impersonal vibe of the larger stage, as well as her new popularity as a hit maker, had M.I.A. clamoring to retain her street cred.

"Just because I did the Grammys doesn't mean I sold out," she told fans, most of whom didn't see her perform in the tent last year. In an effort to prove her point, as she chucked noisemakers into the crowd she claimed that her lawyer told her she could be sued if she hit anybody on the head. "But," she said, "I ain't gonna change."

"I have a lot of male energy ... That's how I know my baby's gonna be a boy." --M.I.A.

In a recent interview, the Sri Lankan singer explained that after a parrot told her she was "like a dude," she realized her unborn child would be, well, the same.

'Paper Planes,' by M.I.A.

Doesn't 'Pineapple Express' sound like a cute little kids' movie about Koko the talking tropical fruit, who feels like an outcast among all his popular apple, pear and raspberry friends? Well, that couldn't be further from the truth. Sony Pictures chose 'Paper Planes,' M.I.A.'s highly aggressive track to support the cutesy titled film trailer, but a song built around gunshots most definitely does not complement a kiddie flick.

This comedy, starring Seth Rogan and James Franco, centers around Dale (Rogen) who witnesses a murder while he's toking up. In a panic, he drops his Pineapple Express marijuana before leaving the scene. His drug dealer, Saul (Franco), informs him that this strain of ganga is so rare that it could in fact be traced back to Saul. The duo take off, running for their lives while a dirty cop and the city's most dangerous druglord are hot on their trail.

"This is my last show, and I'm glad I'm spending it with all my hippies."--M.I.A.

That's all, folks. According to sources, the too-hip Sri Lankan rapper reiterated her plans to quit her tour three times during her set at Bonnaroo.

Emmanuel Jal, like many assessing contemporary hip-hop, believes most of the posturing, boasting and tales of urban warfare in the genre are exaggerated.

"Yeah, everything you see," he says. "That's why it's commercial music. Everything is not real."

So what about the portrayal of strife, bloodshed and horrors in his own hip-hop? It's all-too-real. Much of his new album, 'Warchild,' draws on his own experiences not on an urban battlefront but in actual combat in his home nation of Sudan. Taken from his small village and pressed into service with a rebel army in the late '80s when he was just six or seven (he thinks he was born in 1980 but isn't certain), he spent several years as a child soldier -- one of a generation of Sudanese "Lost Boys" -- in two bloody civil wars, witnessing unspeakable horrors, atrocities and inhumanities before being rescued by a British aid worker. In the songs here he raps of the awful deeds, tortured existence and still-fresh psychic scars of his war experiences ('Forced to Sin'), the economic rape of his homeland ('Vagina'), the ongoing battle with his own understandably accumulated demons ('Bakki Wara'), his struggle to overcome them with his Christian faith ('Shadow of Death') and delivers an emotional tribute to Emma McCune, the woman who rescued him and moved him to Nairobi but died in a car accident not long after ('Emma').

Artist: M.I.A.
Video: 'Paper Planes'
Highlight: The British MC wheeling and dealing in streets on New York.