M.I.A. has responded to claims that she's a MAGA artist after Kid Cudi removed her from his Rebel Ragers tour. In an interview with The New York Times ’ Popcast podcast , the singer was asked about her decision to discuss illegal immigration on stage at her last Cudi show — a moment that led many fans to think that she was affiliated with MAGA. "That's not what's going on," she answered. "That is what the media wrote as what's going on. That was the perception that was generated and fanned and algorithmized to cement a narrative." "Because the narrative is that there is a brown woman who is an immigrant, and no matter what Americans think about that, they can never remove that, and that is not an identity given to me by Americans, and they don't have the right to take it away." Her response comes after she previously showed her support for Donald Trump , who spearheaded the right-wing populist political movement, MAGA.…