Mar 07 2009
Did M.I.A. really name her kid “Ickitt?”
It’s been widely reported that Paper Planes singer M.I.A. named her recently-born son Ickitt. The press has been attempting to scrape up some significance for the odd moniker. MTV reports that Daily News asked South Asian scholars and writers for clues as to the name’s origin, but came up with nil.
Now the singer has taken to her MySpace page to dispute the rumored name, writing, “My baby is not called Ickitt, Pickit or Lickit thank you very much to all the Hollywood press. He’s a baby, he don’t need press! I didn’t release the baby name because I didn’t think it was news!!!!” I don’t know if I believe that last part; surely M.I.A. knows that celebrity baby names are always news.
