Kelis

Friday at Glastonbury 2023: Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters, Kelis and more – as it happened

Read back over the first full day at Glastonbury 2023, from Foo Fighters’ secret set to Wizkid, Warpaint and more

Ben Beaumont-Thomas (now); Laura Snapes, Keza MacDonald andGwilym Mumford (earlier)

23, Jun, 2023 @11:54 PM

Kelis’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

After doing battle with Beyoncé and before her new album, Dirt, we rate the best of Kelis’s career, from the ragers to the musical recipes

Alexis Petridis

11, Aug, 2022 @12:57 PM

‘Common decency’: Beyoncé’s Renaissance sparks debate about the politics of music sampling

Beyoncé removed an interpolation of Kelis’s hit Milkshake from her new album and half of the UK Top 10 singles feature samples. It’s big business – but who’s benefitting?

Rhian Jones

05, Aug, 2022 @1:09 PM

Beyoncé removes Kelis interpolation from song after Milkshake singer complains

Ending to Beyoncé’s song Energy changed after Kelis complained that the song’s writers, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, had been consulted and credited but she had not

Sian Cain

03, Aug, 2022 @7:04 AM

Pharrell Williams’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!

It’s 20 years since his band NERD released their debut album – but the rapper-producer-singer-songwriter has been responsible for an avalanche of hits. As he and co-pilot Chad Hugo get inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, we count down Williams’s 30 greatest bangers

Alexis Petridis

10, Mar, 2022 @2:00 PM

Unmasked singer: Kelis on music, men and her missing money

Twenty years after her debut album, the singer talks about refusing to be pigeonholed, her fallout with Pharrell, and why she has moved to a remote farm

Hadley Freeman

30, Jan, 2020 @5:59 AM

Madonna, Motown and Mongolian metal: the music to listen out for in 2020

The queen of pop gets intimate, Taylor Swift feels the sunshine and Stormzy takes on the world … plus, classical celebrations begin for Beethoven’s 250th

Alexis Petridis and Andrew Clements

01, Jan, 2020 @11:00 AM

Nas denies Kelis's allegations of domestic violence

The rapper has accused his ex-wife of being violent towards him and preventing him from seeing their nine-year-old son

Laura Snapes

07, Sep, 2018 @12:42 PM

Now that's what I call a tracklist: how the compilation's 100th edition sells its history short

Now That’s What I Call Music’s 100th edition includes a greatest hits disc that favours the arena titans – overlooking the pleasure of rediscovering the one-hit wonders and sub-genres buried in these pop time capsules

Bob Stanley

23, Jul, 2018 @12:32 PM

Nas: Nasir review – shifting, mercurial, but ultimately queasy listening

It’s producer Kanye West’s most consistent 2018 release, but Nas mixing social justice and conspiracy theory sits awkwardly, as does his resistance to address domestic violence allegations

Alexis Petridis

18, Jun, 2018 @2:44 PM

Get your hands off my double entendres! Is the smutty pun now under attack?

It is Britain’s favourite type of humour, the go-to gag for everyone from Carry On stars to Bake Off hosts. But are fnarr fnarr jokes just another example of male sexual entitlement?

Ryan Gilbey

07, May, 2018 @12:28 PM