Many of iLoveFriday's fans also took the screenshot to be authentic and reacted with anger toward Khalifa. Malik said in an interview that smoking in a hijab is "not nearly as bad" as what Khalifa had done in a hijab. Īlthough the screenshot was a joke, Malik said that she believed it was real when she first saw it and was shocked by the statement's apparent hypocrisy, given Khalifa's notoriety for appearing in a pornographic video performing sex acts while wearing a hijab. She was raised in the Catholic Church in Lebanon but is non-practicing. Not only was the tweet fake, but Khalifa is actually not Muslim and never has been. "She's so disrespectful to all Muslim women and gives us a bad image 🤦♀️🧕🏾💣." By January 2018, an Instagram account posted a screenshot of a fake tweet, attributed to Mia Khalifa, that criticized Malik and the "Hate Me" video. The song and video were modest successes and gained traction within some online meme-centric communities. The music video for iLoveFriday's 2017 song "Hate Me" showed Malik, a Pakistani-American woman, smoking a blunt while wearing a hijab, a type of veil worn by some Muslim women and traditionally used to maintain Islamic standards of modesty. The best-known portion is Malik's verse, which opens with a line that became a meme: "Hit or miss, I guess they never miss, huh?" Months after its release, "Mia Khalifa" achieved unexpected viral success on social media, especially among TikTok users. God, this was global, I couldn't escape it." Critics have praised the song for its unconventional catchiness, but it has also been criticized as off-key and misogynistic. Khalifa has posted a comment on a TikTok post on June 28, 2020, from Khalifa's official account miakhalifa stating that "This. iLoveFriday and their fans took the apparent hypocrisy seriously. A faked screenshot, intended as a joke, seemed to show Khalifa criticizing Malik for smoking while wearing a hijab in a music video. The decision to write a song dissing Khalifa arose over a misunderstanding. The song is a diss track targeting Mia Khalifa, a Lebanese-American Internet celebrity and former pornographic actress. It was included on their second EP, Mood (2019). The duo of Atlanta-based rappers Aqsa Malik (also known as Smoke Hijabi) and Xeno Carr self-released the song on February 12, 2018, which was later re-released by Records Co and Columbia Records on December 14, 2018. " Mia Khalifa" (originally titled " Mia Khalifa (Diss)", also known as " Hit or Miss", and sometimes stylized as MiA KHALiFA) is a song by American hip hop group iLoveFriday (stylized as iLOVEFRiDAY).