I know she had a bunk contract with Neptunes label, Star Trak, or whatever.



Then she moved on to the label Ninja Tune and released Food in 2014.


After that she was releasing actual food and printing cook books, selling spices and shit.



I attended a festival two/three summers ago to see The Revolution and Kelis on the same stage, and Kelis cancelled, seemingly to perform over in the UK instead.



I admit I was pretty peeved at that.



With "Fourth Of July" coming up, I was reminded that I haven't actually heard any new material from her for about the same length of time as D'MUMBLO... which is never a good sign.

Where is she???? Does she sing any more?

She popped up in The Guardian a few months back, talking about issues with the Neptunes, Nas, etc. Apparenly, she now lives on a farm and seems like she has a bit of space from the industry. She was plugging a tour, though, but I don't know if dates were cancelled because of the pandemic, or if it went ahead as planned. Seemed to be a lot of festivals, not just her own gigs. I saw her during a residency at the Jazz Café in London, a few years back.

https://www.theguardian.c...sing-money

She was a judge on a UK TV singing competition show called Pitch Battle a few years ago. She's currently hosting a new Netflix series Cooked With Cannabis.

Cinny said:

Then she moved on to the label Ninja Tune and released Food in 2014.

Never bought her albums tho I liked her singles. Really liked "Jerk Ribs."

She featured on the UK verison of The Masked Singer earlier this year and had started a Kaleidoscope 20th anniversary tour in Europe just as COVID started to really hit and shut down live music.

2015

Kelis is getting her own weed cooking show on Netflix

KelisPhotography Estevan Oriol

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/48435/1/kelis-hosting-cooking-with-cannabis-netflix-show-4-20

KELIS MOVING FROM LA FOR A SUSTAINABLE LIFE ON A FARM

Kelis is leaving the city to farm in the country.

https://hipmagazine.org/kelis-leaves-la-for-more-sustainable-life-on-farm/

I loved Kaleidoscope and Wanderland back in the day. She went more mainstream with Tasty then Kelis Was Here was just way too long an album with no decent tracks. Kinda lost me after that although I still play 'Good Stuff' a lot.

rlittler81 said:

I loved Kaleidoscope and Wanderland back in the day. She went more mainstream with Tasty then Kelis Was Here was just way too long an album with no decent tracks. Kinda lost me after that although I still play 'Good Stuff' a lot.

Food is worth a listen. I thought that one was something of a return to form. It has a more reflective vibe than stuff like 'Bossy', which works for me.

Forever Be:
https://www.youtube.com/w...6uT-2ZCD_4

Runnin':
https://www.youtube.com/w...QILg1YHziA

onlyforaminute said:

Making real milkshakes and keeping it tight.

Food is definitely strong!

I am just not used to such a space between releases from her, and I've listened to Food a lot already.

She's got some very good songs one being Lil Star specially the live version, and Bless The Telephone.

slyjackson said:

Bless The Telephone.

YAS