Main Lazer has shared “The place’s The Daddy?” that includes M.I.A., one in every of a number of beforehand unreleased tracks set to look on Weapons Don’t Kill Individuals…Lazers Do (fifteenth Anniversary Version), an expanded reissue of the group’s seminal 2009 debut album coming Nov. 15 on Mad First rate.
An surprising new video, additionally out in the present day, reunites Main Lazer founders Diplo and Change with M.I.A. for the primary time in over ten years, bringing the circa-2009 observe into the current with a playful Cybertruck joyride by means of Malibu. The “The place’s The Daddy?” video, directed by Renèe George, additionally marks Change’s first official look with Main Lazer since formally departing the group in 2011.
Diplo and Change have been important contributors to M.I.A.’s sound—as each particular person producers and frequent collaborators—because the begin of her profession, with the pair uniting to provide her signature single, 2007’s “Paper Planes.” Diplo and Change additionally credit score M.I.A. for serving to to start Main Lazer, because the undertaking grew out of a surplus of beats the producers concocted for her within the late 2000s.
“M.I.A. was at all times the catalyst for our facet undertaking…we made too many beats for her,” Diplo explains. “We determined to go document them in Jamaica as a result of the artists have been extraordinarily gifted, the productions on the time have been leading edge, and it was low cost. We made this Main Lazer album down there…and began a little bit motion that ended up having just a few billion streams. It’s cool to place out ‘The place’s The Daddy?’ now as a result of M.I.A. was the third daddy of Main Lazer.”
