High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Paper Planes" is a song recorded by musician M.I.A. for her second studio album Kala released in 2007. The song was written by Maya "M.I.A." Arulpragasam, Topper Headon, Mick Jones, Wesley "Diplo" Pentz, Paul Simonon, Joe Strummer and produced by Diplo with additional production by Switch. The song is a denouement of stereotypical perceptions of immigrants, violence and M.I.A.`s own visa troubles while recording her third album. She said in an interview "I was having this stupid visa problem and I didn’t know what it was, aside from them thinking that I might fly a plane into the Trade Center—which is the only reason that they would put me through this...". She chose to do the song`s famous chorus in sound effects rather than in full spoken word and recorded children singing the words, saying listeners could interpret the song`s protagonist as being anyone from street hustlers to gun-selling corporations. "Paper Planes" was made available for download in August 2007 and released as the album`s third single on February 11, 2008.