Took me a few listens before I decided that I like this dance track from Kelis. This sound is definitely different from her album. Take a listen to “Scream and Shout” below. This will be on her upcoming project “Fleshtones” to be released this year.
Scream and Shout
Kelis is ready to make a comeback with an uptempo track titled, Acapella. She credits her son with Nas, Knight as her inspiration for this record. Take a listen below and let us know what you think.
Acapella
I consider Kelis to be a complex individual and her lyrics can often have subliminal meaning.
“See the look in my eye, I’ve gotta get it out, I don’t care if they stare, I know life’s not fair, I’m gonna play while I’m here, I gotta get out, Just watch me run away now, you know sometimes you just gotta…”
“Young, Fresh, and New” which was a single included in her overseas import album “Wanderland,” I love hearing music by Kelis and I tend to pay attention to her lyrics in this particular song….wonder what’s she was referring to….share your thoughts with MMIM.
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Star Trak/Jive has decided to release a Kelis greatest hits album. The album will feature 14 of Kelis greatest hits from her four albums released in the US as well as the UK. The album is set for release on March 11, 2008 the album will include past collaborations with Gnarls Barkley, Andre 3000, Nas, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and Too $hort, N.E.R.D.
The tracklist is below:
1. Caught Out There
2. Milkshake
3. Got Your Money
4. Trick Me, Tasty
5. Lil’ Star (with Cee-Lo)
6. Get Along With You
7. Young, Fresh N’ New
8. Truth Or Dare [In Search Of...]
9. Bossy (with Too $hort)
10. In Public (with Nas)
11. Millionaire
12. Finest Dreams
13. Suspended
14. Good Stuff
With no album release date, this past Sunday at the Grammy’s, Nas along with his wife Kelis and a few other friends made a statement on the red carpet. Nas and “friends” decided to promote his upcoming album by wearing tshirts with his album title “Nigger”.
CNN interviewed Nas and he said “Its all the experiences we go through every day, of all ethnicities, Black, White, indifferent. We’ve all at some point felt discriminated on, whether its in Dominican Republic, whether its in China, whether its in Iraq with soldiers getting their heads blown off for reasons we don’t know why,” he reasoned. “The meaning of the word is supposed to be ignorant.”
Wife Kelis ended the interview with saying, “By the way, John Lennon had a song called Women are the Niggers of the World, that was many years ago, and it hasn’t changed.”
With so many political figures out there trying to bury this degrading word, Nas believes that he is making a statement. Yes he is, but is it the statement that he is looking for? Maybe it is, but Nas believes that not only Black people are Niggers. He believes that everyone is a Nigger and that he wants people to think about what he’s thinking about today. Nas is receiving a lot of controversial buzz about this album title but is this the right way to get people to think what he is thinking? We are very interesred in what this hip hop legend has to say but is he going at it all wrong? Let MMIM know what you think.
You can watch the interview below.
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