Santogold vs. M.I.A.

versus

tue 8/19/2008

name	Santi White.	Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam.
hometown	Philadelphia, PA.	Hounslow, London.
born in	1976.	1977.
what's in a name	Taken from an infamous '80s infomercial selling "Santo Gold" jewelry.	Stands for Missing In Acton and Missing In Action.
style	New wave, pop, electro and dub fusion.	World beat, hip hop and electro fusion.
previous gig	A&R representative for Epic Records and lead singer of punk band Stiffed.	Visual artist and music video director.
breakthrough track	L.E.S. Artistes.	Galang.
as heard on	Converse and Bud Light Lime beer commercials.	Pineaple Express movie trailer and soundtrack.
young poets	"Me, I'm a creator, thrill is to make it up, the rules I break, got me a place, up on the radar, me, I'm a taker, know what the stakes are, can't roll it back, it's understood, got to play our cards." - Creator.	"I fly like paper, get high like planes, if you catch me at the border I got visas in my name,If you come around here, I make 'em all day, I get one down in a second if you wait." - Paper Planes.
killer collabo	Julian Casablancas and N.E.R.D.	Missy Elliot
produced by	Mark Ronson, Diplo, John Hill and Switch.	Richard X, Diplo, Timbaland and Switch.
in their own words	"It's racist (laughs). It's totally racist. Everyone is just so shocked that I don't like R&B. Why does R&B keep coming into my interviews? It's pissing me off." - Santogold	"And I love hip-hop. I grew up on that shit. I don't wanna say anything bad about it. But by the time I got to it I felt like it was too late. I wanted realism but that was difficult." - M.I.A.
most recent release	Santogold.	Kala.
the critics	The Onion's A.V. Club: "Santogold manages to weave together a strange amalgam of tracks that sound almost nothing alike, yet are unmistakably part of the same whole. Santogold's relentless disregard for genre boundaries in the service of a stellar pop song is the real glue that holds the album together."	Rolling Stone: "There's a resolute sarcasm, a weariness and defiant determination, a sense of pleasure carved out of work – articulated by the lyrics, embodied by the music. A riot of human, musical and mechanical sounds bubbles underneath these tracks."
webprops	69,279 friends on official MySpace.	331,768 on official MySpace.
best video moment	Becoming digital wallpaper in Lights Out.	Dancing in front of digital wallpaper in Boyz.

also tagged diplo, santogold, mia

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34 responses to “versus: Santogold vs. M.I.A.”

i luv how they are being compared in the same picture, lol. but i go for M.I.A..!!

LocaEcuator1ana

8/19/2008

idk neither of them but ill go for the one with the most myspace friends lol that means M.I.A

.Michelle.

8/19/2008

@ .Michelle. – click the links! ;-)

jose

8/19/2008

I love M.I.A.

(^_^)Peruanchina(^_^) aka..

8/19/2008

ofcourse i gotta go with M.I.A.

jazmin95

8/19/2008

I LO0VE WISIN Y YANDEL

jazmin95

8/19/2008

I GO 4 M.I.A EVEN THOUGH U CANT UNDERSTAND A WORD SHES SAYING....LOL

sugar123

(Chicago,IL)

8/19/2008

I go for M.I.A...her sound to me is so unique and cool. I might understand 1 or 2 words but thats ok i love the beat. And her music videos are cool 2..they are very colorful.