{"id":243449,"date":"2026-05-31T17:24:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/m-i-a-suing-kid-cudi-for-kicking-her-off-tour-demanding-millions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:24:57","slug":"m-i-a-suing-kid-cudi-for-kicking-her-off-tour-demanding-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/m-i-a-suing-kid-cudi-for-kicking-her-off-tour-demanding-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"M.I.A. Suing Kid Cudi for Kicking Her Off Tour, Demanding Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2221573\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/mia\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">M.I.A.<\/strong><\/a> is suing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/kid-cudi\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Kid Cudi<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old \u201cPaper Planes\u201d rapper filed a lawsuit against the 42-year-old\u00a0\u201cDay \u2018n\u2019 Nite\u201d\u00a0superstar after she was booted from his tour in early May <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/04\/kid-cudi-fires-m-i-a-as-tour-opener-after-comments-about-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">following her on-stage comments about immigrants.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The complaint was filed in California federal court, and claims that <strong>Kid Cudi <\/strong>was aware of her political beliefs before he invited her to join the <em>Rebel Ragers Tour<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>M.I.A.<\/strong> was terminated to generate publicity for the Tour, which has struggled with ticket sales. She was contractually allowed to say whatever she wanted on stage. <strong>M.I.A. <\/strong>now holds <strong>Kid Cudi<\/strong> accountable for his bad faith destruction of her contractual rights, business opportunities, and reputation,\u201d the complaint reads, via <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/05\/mia-sues-kid-cudi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consequence.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She is reportedly seeking over $2.8 million plus punitive damages and legal fees.<\/p>\n<p>If you did not see, <strong>M.I.A. <\/strong>was performing when she announced: \u201cI\u2019ve been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/05\/m-i-a-booed-dallas-illegal-immigrant-comments-kid-cudi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>: \u201cI can\u2019t do \u2018Illygirl,\u2019 though some of you could be in the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The audience booed, and\u00a0<strong>Kid Cudi<\/strong>\u00a0later\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/04\/kid-cudi-fires-m-i-a-as-tour-opener-after-comments-about-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a statement about firing her.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>M.I.A.<\/strong> later responded to being fired in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/04\/mia-responds-kid-cudi-fires-her-tour-immigration-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> series of messages on social media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI CAN\u2019T VOTE IN THE US, AND 48% OF LATIN COMMUNITY VOTED\u00a0<strong>TRUMP<\/strong>. SO ARE YOU GOING TO HATE THEM ALL?\u201d she responded to a fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/kid-cudi\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kid Cudi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/mia\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M.I.A.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/31\/m-i-a-suing-kid-cudi-for-kicking-her-off-tour-demanding-millions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty M.I.A. is suing Kid Cudi. The 50-year-old \u201cPaper Planes\u201d rapper filed a lawsuit against the 42-year-old\u00a0\u201cDay \u2018n\u2019 Nite\u201d\u00a0superstar after she was booted from his tour in early May following her on-stage comments about immigrants. The complaint was filed in California federal court, and claims that Kid Cudi was aware of her political beliefs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}