By Debra DeSalvo

"No one on the corner has swagger like us," indeed! Show-stealing M.I.A. was not only super-pregnant at the Grammys, she was actually having contractions while she was bouncing all over the stage, according to EW.com. Speaking after her performance of "Swagga Like Us" with Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and T.I., M.I.A. said, "The contractions come and go. My fiancé's got the stopwatch going."

Grammy show boss Jack Sussman confirmed that M.I.A.'s contractions began around 8 p.m., right when the awards went on the air. "I asked her to just hang on until 10 p.m. ET," the CBS TV exec admitted, adding, "The kid's a gamer." Anxious fiancé Benjamin Brewer was in the wings timing the contractions to make sure she didn't go into labor backstage, and the Grammys had an ambulance on standby just in case.
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M.I.A. is pregnant and nominated for a pair of Grammys. Like, nine months pregnant and maybe ready to deliver her first child any day, and nominated for Record of the Year for "Paper Planes" and Best Rap Song for "Swagga Like Us." So, what is she going to do on Sunday?

Stay at home with her feet kicked up, eating Chunky Monkey with some bone marrow drizzled on top? Watch the whole thing go down on TV with producing pal Diplo and her baby's dad Ben Brewer with a celebratory glass of sparkling pomegranate juice on ice, in case she wins?

Nope, Maya Arulpragasam, who is also nominated for an Oscar for her contribution to the "Slumdog Millionaire" soundtrack, "O … Saya," is not only going to the Grammys, she's going to perform. Let me reiterate this: her due date is … Sunday. Read more...

In addition to possibly becoming the first musician to win a Record of the Year Grammy for a song that samples gunshots and contains the words "weed" and "bongs," M.I.A. could be the first Grammy nominee (that we know of anyway) to give birth on Grammy night.

The singer, pregnant with her first child, announced on her MySpace blog on Friday — under the heading "We still ganster [sic] wid it" — that her due date just happens to be February 8, the same day as the Grammy Awards.

"[They're] due the same day!" she gushed of the baby and the possible award for "Paper Planes." "So either way I figured I'll win. But OMG if I get it, I will never dis the Grammys ever again!"

Though she's psyched about the baby she's expecting with fiancé Benjamin Brewer, the singer also noted that she's back "in the studio on the grind," working on her next album as we speak.