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When she talked to Jessica Suarez about what was up a couple of weeks ago. M.I.A. told us that this was coming, a version of Tom Waits' "Way Down in the Hole", the track from Frank's Wild Years since known in myriad versions as the theme from "The Wire", made with Baltimore's Blaqstarr . She changes it up quite a bit here, however, making it her own. As for the video, it supposedly cost $10 to make, but we've certainly seen worse.