Click here to watch video of a very pregnant M.I.A. shake it at the big Diesel party in New York this past weekend during her performance!

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Our email was going crazy last night!

A bunch of Perezcious readers emailed to tell us that Paper Planes crooner M.I.A. performed with a big ass baby belly at the Diesel xXx party on Saturday night in Brooklyn.

So, is this the reason why the hipster music fave 'retired' this summer?

M.I.A. recently got engaged. Click here to read all about that.

Double congrats!

[Image by Thomas D via Getty Images.]

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Click here for the LOLs!

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She must be flying high!

'Retired' recording artist M.I.A's song Paper Planes appears in a promo for the stoner flick Pineapple Express and it's burning up the charts!

Paper Planes has already been out six months, but it jumped from number 55 to 36 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song is also currently number 3 on iTunes' top songs chart and her album, Kala, is at number 7 on the iTunes top albums chart.

Ha! Looks like radio's not the only hitmaker! Indie fave M.I.A. has never been a mainstream radio darling.

Congrats, Maya!

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We've gotten multiple reports from the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee this weekend that M.I.A. announced during her set that she was retiring.

Say it ain't so!!!!

Update: The New York Times is reporting about the retirement.

Apparently, M.I.A. told the crowd "This is my last show."

She said not once or twice but THREE times that she was retiring!

“Thanks for coming to my last gig,” she told the audience before she left.

Uhmmm…

WTF?????

We hope she was kidding!!!!!

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Songstress and Marc Jacobs model M.I.A. was paid a pretty penny to perform at an MTV Movie Awards after-party on Sunday.

Tongues were wagging when she disclosed at the event how much she was paid to perform and what she plans to do with the money.

Mid-song, M.I.A. announced, “They’re giving me $100,000. Not bad, eh? I’m going to use it to build schools in Liberia. It costs $52,000 to build a school for 1,000.”

Building a school in Africa…she's just like Oprah and Madonna!

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"The biggest thing coming out of England right now are singers like Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen. I think questioning the status quo for them is doing lines of cocaine in the toilet."

M.I.A. tells Uptown magazine

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No, she's not engaged to Diplo, sadly.

M.I.A. has got herself a new man….and he's got $$$$$$$$$.

The singer is dating the son of music mogul Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Her man's name is Benjamin Brewer and PerezHilton.com can reveal that he popped the question less than a week ago.

Ben is also a guitarist for the band The Exit.

M.I.A. tells PerezHilton.com exclusively, "He is the best person in the world, and u sir are so hast. He only put a ring on me like 4 days ago."

We're still hoping her ex, Diplo, will win her back at the altar, like something out of a movie.

But, a millionaire's son isn't a bad catch either!

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M.I.A. is PISSED, and she's venting her frustrations on her official blog:

"PAPER PLANES VIDEO

LOOK I KNOW THERE ARE HATERS OUT THERE, I DEAL WITH IT EVERYDAY THATS NO FUCKING BIG DEAL AND IVE DEALT WITH WORSE IN MY LIFE, A FEW PEOPLE TALKING SHIT DONT MATTER TO ME, BUT TWISTING TRUTH ISNT THE LESSON I WANNA LEARN IN MY TIME IN MUSIC, SO WHO EVER THAT IS DOING IT , I WANNA SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT

1, I ORIGINALLY WANTED TO SHOOT THE VIDEO IN A FACTORY ON THE BORDER OF
EQUADOR, BUT COULDNT. I WAS TOURING THE U.S, I COULDA BEEN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD RIGHT THEN BUT THERE I WAS IN AMERICA, IN NYC, IN BROOKLYN, IN BEDSTUY , I WAS TORN BETWEEN SCRAPIN SHOWS IN AMERICA AND MEETING AMERICAN FANS OR SHOOTING IN NYC ON MY ONLY DAY OFF I'D HAD IN 4 MONTHS AND GETTING ON WITH IT.

2, SO THAT WAS THAT! I NEVER MADE A VIDEO IN AMERICA AND HEY ITS STILL A PART OF WHAT I DO AND SAY, ITS WAS STILL VALID, SO I WAS READY TO ROLL WITH IT.

3, YOU ALL KNOW HOW THE SONG SOUNDS, THATS WHY WHEN U GO ON YOUTUBE 400, 000 PEOPLE WOULD RATHER LISTEN THE SONG AS IT IS AND STARE AT SOME PICTURE THEN TO ACTUALLY WATCH A VIDEO

4, WHEN LETTERMAN CENSORD ME IT WAS WAC OF COURSE!!!!!! , AND YES I FELT SOOOOOO BAD FOR WHAT THEY DID TO MY SOUND. I WAS ABEL TO SOUND CHECK FOR THAT SHOW AND THEY LET ME SOUND CHECK FINE, THEN ON THE ACTUAL TAPING MY SOUND WAS SOOO DIFFERENT FROM WHAT ID AGREED, AS SOON AS I OPENED MY MOUTH THE DIFFERENCE BLEW ME AWAY, I FELT I WAS GETTING BULLIED ON NATIONAL TELEVISON, AND I COULDNT EVEN REACH OUT TO MY LABELS OR MY MANAGEMENT TO HELP, SINCE THEY ARE NEW TO WHAT HAPPENS TO AN ARTIST LIKE ME IN MAINSTEAM AMERICAN CULTURE.

SO THEY TRIED TO SHUT ME DOWN AGAIN. I MADE THE PAPER PLANES VIDEO. I MADE IT HOW THEY WANTED. NO VIOLENCE. AMBIGUOUS. MTV - FRIENDLY. NOW TODAY, I CHECK YOUTUBE AND SEE THE LEAKED MTV PAPER PLANES VIDEO UP FOR THE FIRST TIME. I CLICKED ON IT AND OUT COMES THIS FUCKED UP MESS WITH DOUBLE-TRACKED BULLSHIT MESS

WHO THE THE FUCK IS DOING THIS TO ME?????

THE VIDEO WAS SABOTAGED FOR WHATEVER REASON AND IM DISAPPOINTED THAT MTV HAS HAD SUCH A MAJOR ROLE IN THIS. THE BLOGGERS WHO ARE LAZY ENOUGH TO FOLLOW THE MTV LINK AND POST UP AND COMMENT ON THE SOUND WHEN THAT HASNT BEEN COMPROMISED AND THE GUNSHOT ARENT REPLACED AND EDITED MAKES ME SAD. I DID FIGHT FOR THE SOUND , BECAUSE PUTTING MEANINGS IN YOUR VIDEOS, IN MY OPINION IS A DYING ART. I CAN FILM MY SELF ANYWHERE ANYTIME AND LET YOU KNOW THE TRUTH , BUT THE SONG IS WHAT I WANTED TO PRESERVE IN THIS CASE.

TO ALL MY FANS, LOOK, ITS LIKE THIS,
IM LEARNING THINGS ABOUT THIS WORLD WITH YOU, I WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO ME , I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW PEOPLE WILL SIT AND SPEND ALL SUNDAY TEARIN ME DOWN FOR SOMETHING I DIDNT EVEN MAKE OR PUT OUT, SO PEOPLE WELCOME TO MODERN DAY PROPAGANDA MESSAGE MANGLING.

IN 2007, AN OUTSIDER OPINION WILL BE CONFRONTED THIS WAY , AND THIS IS HOW THE BATTLE GOES, MY MESSAGES AND IDEAS AND MEANING WILL ALWAYS BE BROUGHT TO YOU WITH SLIGHTLY TAINTED CHANNELS. IF YOU SUPPORT ME BE SMART, AND KNOW THAT.

I LOVE YOU, U KEEP ME GOING.
XXXXXX
MAYA

HERE IS THE REAL AMERICAN VERSION WITH GUN SHOTS!"

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