Singer M.I.A. claimed Jay-Z told her to “get plastic surgery” when she first signed to his record label, Roc Nation.
“Even when I met Jay-Z and I signed to Roc Nation, the first thing he told me to do is get plastic surgery,” she said in a recent video obtained by Livebitez.
“I’m not insecure because I would’ve got plastic surgery,” the “Paper Planes” singer, born Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam MBE added.
“So their argument of, ‘Maya’s f–king insecure, that’s why she needs to f–king massage her ego,’ fails. It fails. Fails because you turn around and ask … What women do you know who hasn’t had plastic surgery around [Jay-Z]? All of them have. I’m the only one who didn’t, which already proves the fact it’s not insecurity.”
M.I.A. said if she was insecure she “would’ve done that 100 times over.”
A rep for Jay-Z did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
The British rapper, 49, joined Roc Nation management in May 2012 ahead of her fourth album, “Matangi.”
However, in December 2013, she announced that she was leaving the label after they pulled a trailer for a documentary about the making of her album.
M.I.A.’s remarks come days before Jay-Z, 55, was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in an amended lawsuit from October.
On Sunday, the plaintiff, who filed as Jane Doe, revised her lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs to include the “99 Problems” rapper.
In the suit, the then-pre-teen alleged that she was raped by both rappers at a house party in 2000 while another female celebrity watched.
Jay-Z vehemently denied the “heinous” rape allegations, slamming attorney Tony Buzbee for attention to “blackmail” him.
“What [Buzbee] had calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle,” the dad of three told us.
“No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose you for the fraud you are in a VERY public fashion. So no, I will not give you ONE RED PENNY!!”
The Rocawear co-founder, born Shawn Carter, urged the victim to “file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!!”
He also said how he is heartbroken that his wife, Beyoncé, and their kids, Blue Ivy, 12, and twins Rumi and Sir, 7, will have to deal with this situation.
“My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people,” he said, referring to his pre-teen daughter.
“I mourn yet another loss of innocence. Children should not have to endure such at their young age. It is unfair to have to try to understand inexplicable degrees of malice meant to destroy families and human spirit.”
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