You can take the girl out of the hood, but you can’t take the hood out of the girl.
Outspoken Sri Lankan rap star M.I.A. is so livid over a slightly-disparaging New York Times Magazine article about her whiny political views (which includes the assertion that Facebook is owned by CIA operatives), she unleashed the reporter’s phone number across the Twitterverse in retaliation.
“917.834.3158 CALL ME IF YOU WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT THE N Y T TRUTH ISSUE, ill b taking calls all day bitches ;)….” M.I.A. wrote in an early AM Tweet to fans.
Lots of people thought dialing the number with the NYC area code might actually lead them to a breathless phone call with M.I.A. herself. This is what they heard instead:
“You have reached the mailbox of Lynn Hirschberg. This mailbox is currently full.”
Lynn Hirschberg just happens to be the journalist who penned the NYT’s somewhat-unflattering profile on the “Paper Planes” emcee, published Wednesday.
Well, you have to admire the girl’s moxie!
“It’s a fairly unethical thing to do, but I don’t think it’s surprising,” said Hirschberg, who has been fielding calls from M.I.A. stans all day. “She’s a provocateur, and provocateurs want to be provocative…[it’s] infuriating and not surprising.”
Lynn — who still has a full mailbox — says she plans on keeping her phone number.