After a long,well-documented and at times uproarious battle with her label, M.I.A. announced on Tuesday (December 31) that she is leaving Jay Z’s Roc Nation.


“im leaving @RocNation . Thank to everyone who supported the M.I.A #MATANGI LP. HAPPY NEW YEAR | 2014,” she took to Twitter to announce on New Year’s Eve.




The “Bad Girls” singer started speaking out against Interscope in January of 2013 when the label, she said, kept pushing back her Matangi album because it was “too positive.” And when the album, originally slated for a late 2012 release, still wasn’t out in June of this year, she decided to release its lead single “Bring the Noize,” all on her own.



Her battle with Roc Nation began after Jay Z’s label started operating under Universal Music Group, which also owns Interscope, earlier this year. In July, the label pulled a teaser clip for a Matangi documentary for copyright infringement. At the time, M.I.A. said she had been “blacklisted” by her label and encouraged her fans to “put your middle fingers up.”


But after all that drama, her album was finally released on November 1. And in an interview with MTV News last month, it seemed the singer had fully embraced her “YALA” motto.