The rapper says he has a free speech right to pick and choose who is on his concert tour, meaning he could legally fire M.I.A. after her onstage political rants.
Kid Cudi attends Netflix's "Happy Gilmore 2" New York Premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center on July 21, 2025 in New York City.
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Kid Cudi says M.I.A. cannot sue him for kicking her off his Rebel Rangers Tour after she made politically-charged statements, arguing the First Amendment protects his right to choose the “content of his own concert tour.”
The “Paper Planes” rapper (Mathangi Arulpragasam) filed a lawsuit against Cudi (Scott Mescudi) in May after he booted her from the tour — a move that came after she told fans from the stage that she had been “canceled for being a brown Republican voter.”
