M.I.A.. Offers Music Therapy To Australian Inmates.

Rap star M.I.A. has been teaching music to the inmates of an Australian detention centre.The hip-hop star, 28, conducted the two day workshop in Sydney as part of the Heaps Decent programme, which attempts to help disadvantaged youths break into the music industry.She says, "(I was) asked if I'd go there to meet these teenagers in an all-girls juvenile detention centre and help them to make music... teach them.There were around 15 girls, aged from 13 to 20. All the girls just wanted to gangster-rap, but we had to make a censored version and an uncensored version, 'cos they just wanted to be like, 'F**k the police.'" The result of Mia's motivational visit is a single which has now been scheduled for a full Australian release.She adds, "We used the doors shutting in the prison; all the random noises they made to make the beat, and then we made sure that all the girls got a go rapping on it and stuff, and they just did their thing. It was really cool.".