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M.I.A. is just bursting with anticipation for February 8. (Sorry, bad joke.) Sure, that's the night we'll find out if she wins that unlikely (but totally deserved!) Record of the Year Grammy, which is cool and everything. But that's not all that's slated to go down that day.

In a post on her MySpace blog titled "BABY + GRAMMY .......", the preggers superstar announced that that baby she's creating is due February 8, the very same day as the Grammys are handed out in a ceremony at L.A.'s Staples Center. "Either way I figured I'll win," she writes, "but OMG if I get it, I will never diss the Grammys ever again!" Sure, until Steely Dan's Spyro Gyra covers album sweeps the thing two years from now.

M.I.A. notes that she's "in the studio on the grind," and her story checks out; she's got that new Interscope imprint, N.E.E.T., which will issue the physical version of the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack (on which M.I.A. makes several appearances) December 23. She's also working on Rye Rye's debut album, which will also be released by N.E.E.T.