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Here’s a musical collaboration sure to be some kind of first: Rapper M.I.A. reportedly recorded a track of her upcoming album with a group of Filipino Verizon workers.

Rapper M.I.A. performs during the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival at Golden Gate Park in this…

Rapper M.I.A. performs during the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival at Golden Gate Park in this August 2009 file photo, in San Francisco, Calif. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the 34-year-old singer said that a lengthy phone call with tech support inspired her song “I’m Down Like Your Internet Connection.”

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In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the 34-year-old singer said that a lengthy phone call with tech support inspired the song “I’m Down, Like Your Internet Connection.”

“I was having issues with my cable and wireless, and I was on the phone [with tech support] for three hours, and I thought, ‘Maybe this needs to be part of my music, could you just learn these lyrics and sing it down the phone to me?’ Ten phone calls later, I have Internet that sticks and a song,” she told the magazine.

Representatives for the artist did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but Rolling Stone associate editor Brian Hiatt said that though he wonders whether M.I.A. was exaggerating the story, she insists it was true.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the 34-year-old singer said that a lengthy phone call with tech support inspired the song “I’m Down, Like Your Internet Connection.”

“I was having issues with my cable and wireless, and I was on the phone [with tech support] for three hours, and I thought, ‘Maybe this needs to be part of my music, could you just learn these lyrics and sing it down the phone to me?’ Ten phone calls later, I have Internet that sticks and a song,” she told the magazine.

Representatives for the artist did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but Rolling Stone associate editor Brian Hiatt said that though he wonders whether M.I.A. was exaggerating the story, she insists it was true.

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