M.I.A. to accept British Queen's honor - her mother made the medals

M.I.A. on saturday received an M.B.E., or Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, with rapper saying she is accepting it thanks in part to her mother, Rolling Stone reports. M.I.A., or how her mother named her, Mathangi Arulpragasam, is a daughter of Sri Lankan Tamils revealed that her mother helped craft the medals the Queen’s Honours hand out every year. “She is one of the 2 women in England who hand stitched these medals for the last 30 years. After receiving asylum my mum and cousin took this job in 1986, because it was the only non English speaking manual labor she could find. She spent her life in England hand sewing 1000s of medals for the Queen. No matter how I feel or what I think, my Mother was extremely proud of the job she had”, she said on Instagram. M.I.A. continued, “It’s a very unique situation for me where I get to honor her most classiest minimum wage job ever.”