Ahead of her potentially final album AIM., M.I.A. has released a track, “Foreign Friend”.

Originally leaked in March, the official version with Dexta Daps, a Jamaican dancehall musician, was played for the first time on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show.

Speaking on the radio show, M.I.A said: “I spend a lot of time in the Caribbean and, since I'm not allowed to go to Sri Lanka since the government banned me, the Caribbean is like Sri Lanka without the war. I've been going there since 2000. So I went there to check on my friends, just to have some time out.”

“Dex's song was on the radio 24/7. He was the man, basically. All the kids were like, ‘You’ve gotta work with him’. They sort of pushed me into it – I just wanted to do something that’d make my friends happy. So I reached out and he said ‘Yeah’.”

She added: “ We sort of met in Jamaica. Then I found out he wrote this song called ‘Morning Love’ which happened to be my favourite song at the time. And it was just like, no question about it, I had to get some Dexta Time. But obviously, when we got together, it could only go as far as being best friends.”

The Sri Lankan artist has asserted that A.I.M. is pretty much her last album. In the last few months, she’s dropped “Borders”, “Go Off” and “Bird Song”, as well as a collab with Zayn.

Listen to the track below.