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Yesterday (December 12), M.I.A. wrote a MySpace blog entry, the title of which proclaimed, "BREAKING ROCKS!!!!!!! BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!"

So did it contain info about her and Timbaland in the studio? Or her new album?

Nope.

Was it about her adventures in Liberia with child rights activist Kimmie Weeks (filming a documentary to "HUMBLE CELEBRITIES IN THE MAINSTREAM WHO SPEND ALL DAY SHAKING IT WITH PARIS HILTON AND SINGING ABOUT CLOUDS AND LIVING IT UP IN A GLASS HOSUE")? Um...sorta.

Was it about her breaking up with Diplo? Maybe.

Now, we love M.I.A., but we think she might be going a little bit nuts. Here are some highlights from the blog post, as well as a follow-up, posted two hours later, in which she refused to apologize for what she had just written:

"I DID ALL THE PRINCESS DIANA THINGS. WENT TO SCHOOLS ,HOMES THAT WERE EMPTY BOMBED OUT BUILDINGS , VILLAGES WITH NO WATER ELECTRICITY, SAW THE MOST RAWEST THINGS SINCE MY HEAD AND HEART GOT SHAT ON BY MY EX BOYFRIEND WHO WAS GONE TO SAVE STRIPPERS IN BRAZIL (COZ they ALWAYS NEED MUSIC TO DANCE TO)...

I LOVE LIBERIA , AND I DO IM GONNA ADOPT IT. I WILL GO THERE WITHOUT QUESTION. IF SRI LANKA....IS MY MOTHER COUNTRY THEN LIBERIA WILL BE MY MOTHERS BROTHER. AND THERE WERE T SHIRTS ON EX REBELS THAT SAID I LOVE LIBERIA.THAT WAS COOL.

I HAD A GUCCI SWEATER ON , AND THEY ASKED ME IF IT WAS REAL , I SAID NO AND THE MEN WERE LIKE OHHH SORRY IT WOULDA BEEN NICE IF U HAD THE REAL AUTHENTIC THING, AND I TOLD EM I WASNT SAD AT ALL. I JUS RATHER HAVE MY MONEY GO TO SOME POOR DUDE MAKIN EM IN CHINA OR AFRICA THEN THE POWER HOUSES IN THE WEST, THEN THEY GAVE ME THE LIBERIAN HIGH FIVE WHICH IS A FIGNER CLICKIN THING HARD TO DO ON A BLOG. AND I FELT LIKE I PLANTED A BUSINESS SEED IN THE MEN ON THE CORNER DOING NOTHING WHO HAVE THEIR LEFTOVER AMO HIDDEN UNDER THE BED AT HOME IN CASE THE WAR STARTS AGAIN...

I BOUGHT T SHIRTS OFF THE STREET BOYS BACK, WHICH DIDNT GO DOWN WELL WITH ANYONE I WAS WITH, EVERYONE LOOKED AT ME LIKE I WAS ROBBIN THE SHIRTS OFF THE BACKS OF THE POOR THAT WAS SOOOOOOO DISGUSTING HOW COULD I EVEN THINK OF THAT? , I DID OFFER LIKE WEEKLY PAY FOR SOMETHING THE BOYS GOT FREE FROM THE SACKS CHARITY CLOTHES DROPED ON THEIR HEADS. AND SOME OF THEM WANTED IT BACK LIKE "ACTUALLY I LIKE THAT T SHIRT I THINK ITS COOL TOOO" SO I GAVE IT BACK, NOW THEY FEEL THAT SHIRT IS LIKE THE BEST SHIT EVER, COZ HE HAD TO FIGHT ME TO GET IT BACK, AND ALL HIS FRIENDS THINK HES LIKE THE COOOLEST SHIT IN THE HOOD.

ITS ALL GOOD!..."

And, believe it or not, out of all that, the thing that seems to have gotten MySpace commenters most riled up was the stuff about the boy who may or may not be Diplo. Thus, in the second entry, M.I.A. wrote:

"PEOPLE WHO R OFFENDED ABOUT MY EX B O Y COMMENT. I M N O T S O R R Y ...

WHY DID YOU THINK I WASNT READY TO SAVE MYSELF, NO ONE WANTED TO GIMMIE CREDIT FOR MY ALBUM THAT I PUT TOGETHER !!!!!

we can save ourselves!!!
WE CAN BE BAD BY OUR DAMN SELF!!!!

THAT SHOULD INCLUDE WOMEN, IM SURE IF STRIPPERS HAD A VOICE IN OUR MEDIA , WE'D KNOW WHAT THEY THOUGHT, BUT WE WONT COZ IT HAS TO BE FILTERED THROUGH MEN AND THEY MONEY MAKING MECHINES.

THATS WHY NOTHING CHANGES.

I WISH SOMEONE DID SOMETHING ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY HIP HOP HAS MADE OFF WOMENS ASS!!! IN RATION TO HOW MANY WOMEN MADE IT IN HIP HOP PERIOD...

SEX IS GREAT!!!!! WE ALLLLLLL KNOW THAT!!!!! LOOK AT US DROP OFF LIKE FLYS AIDS IS EVERYDAY THING FOR US, TRUST ME. YOU DONT HAVE TO TELL AFRICA ABOUT A BUTT...

YOUR THINKIN OLD BOY FORMAT, SEX = COOL.
AFRICA = STRAVING PEOPLE."

Now, of course, being the patriarchal, money-making media machine that we are, we clipped some of the almost-not-quite-as-crazy quotes (and possible lyrics?), so be sure to check out both full blog posts on M.I.A.'s MySpace.