10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (24/04/10)
1. BoB feat. Hayley Williams – ‘Airplanes’ Rather than donning a do-rag and swaggering about telling anyone who’ll listen that she’s burnt her Fueled By Ramen back catalogue and is now listening to nothing but Public Enemy and Paris,...
Kelis : Millionaire
If I were Andre 3000 – and who’s to say that, in some distant universe, I’m not? – I’d be a little fucked off to see this single billed as Kelis when, in fact, it’s all about me you absolute bastards! I sing on it, I rap on it, I wrote...
Kelis : Tasty
Beyonce Knowles bestrode 2003 like some great hot-panted colossus. But, as an embodiment of how modern R&B fuses the worlds of pop and cutting-edge cool she is an unsatisfying icon. Destiny’s Child has enthusiasm, booty and bounce, but she is,...
Kelis : Wanderland
Ol' Dirty Bastard calls her Thunder Bitch. Broadsheet newspapers proclaim her the brightest new flame in feminist hip-pop. Smitten old men twice her age invite her out on globe-trotting dates - but hey, that's Bono for you. In our collective...
Kelis : Young Fresh N'New
If you've been wondering what happened to Prince, well, here she is. After cleaning up on the awards circuit and becoming a poster girl for style supplement fashion, this startling record is a reminder of the real purpose behind Kelis and her...
Kelis : Lokeren, Belgium Town Festival
She's only been away for a few months, but in these fast-movin' R&B times, it seems like aeons ago since Kelis dropped her brilliant debut 'Kaleidoscope'. With her status as the hottest new ghetto superstar lost to the female hiphop hordes, and...
Manchester University
For a night of such alchemy, it's a sobering prospect. With all the magazine covers, adulation, rumours, stalkers that have accosted Kelis Rogers over the past year, you'd be expected to expect a calibre of celebrity ridiculousness to border on...
Good Stuff
Kelis Good Stuff (Virgin) [/B] Sung by the most effortless, charming soul voice since Mary J Blige and held together by the irresistible riffs of The Neptunes production team, this has genius written all over it. Kelis is a...
Kaleidoscope
Baby remember her name. You might have heard 20-year-old, Harlem-bred Kelis on Ol ' Dirty Bastard' s anthem to pimping, 'Got Your Money' , or Puffy 's homage to himself, 'PE 2000' . If not, you'll have heard her rock-hard debut single...
Kelis : Caught out there
"I hate you so much right now" , screams Kelis. Men, men, men; we're untrustworthy, lying scoundrels at heart, and as this Harlem-based hip-hop soulster rightly points out, we're always at our worst shortly after we've gone through the old...
