M.I.A. Covers Complex Magazine

Her son Ikhyd is just 15 months old, but M.I.A. admits she already worries about the struggles he'll face in his life. The Paper Planes singer, who is engaged to Ben Brewer (son of billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr), talks motherhood and music in the latest issue of Complex magazine.

On her son's future struggles: "I don't hope for them, but he's probably going to have them. I think their generation is probably going to have the craziest, you know?... Any kid being born in these times is gonna have to be resilient to a million and one things. We thought we'd seen it all, and our parents thought that they'd seen it, but every generation it gets more and more intense."

On parenting, past and present: "When I look back on my grandparents' time, there was no rush in their lifestyles. More family values, better food - I'm assuming everything they ate was organic because it was grown really locally - local culture, and all of that is gone now. My baby's generation, in his lifetime everything is gonna be a struggle to gain all the things they took for granted: privacy, good food, and time to spend with family. It's gonna become more isolated and more technology-based."

On her son's diverse family background: "At the moment, he's staying with me at my mum's - her house is in the projects, so the house is like the size of somebody's closet in California. But at the same time, he's got his grandpa on the other side, Ben's dad, who is at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. I think as long as he has both extremes, that's where his lessons are gonna be learned. I want him to grow up here and spend as much time as possible with his grandma to learn the things I learned growing up in this house. He needs to hang with everybody and meet people and find out what they need and find out what the problems are and what the solutions are."

Read the rest of M.I.A.'s interview at Complex.com