http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpIksneeby8

LMAO! I love it too! Kelis gets major daps from me for throwing shade at that Barbadian toad. All the Rihanna fans can do is try and throw shade back about record sales and call her a flop. So what? Kelis isn't mainstream and never tried to make herself appeal to the same idiotic demographic who are too airheaded to be able to listen to Rihanna's music and not cringe at how bad she is. She's an alternative urban act, who plays to a niche audience of AUTHENTIC music enthusiasts, who appreciate musical sincerity and enjoy her eclectic, 'to the left' style. That's the lane she chose, the one she's happy in, and I'm pretty sure she knew that commercial success wouldn't likely come her way going that route, and obviously it doesn't bother her too much because she's still there. So all this talk about "she's a flop"...and..."her album only sold this" is not only weak, but null and void.

Kelis is something Rihanna will never be: an artist. And she has something that Rihanna wlll never have: talent and creativity -- no matter how much Rihanna tries to swagger jack various bits of her style and present them as her own to her brain-dead base of swishy 16 year old gay boys in skinny jeans and dumpy fat girls in glasses, who don't know any better.

Kelis can call Rihanna out for hijacking her image all day and all night; throwing up her modest record sales ultimately means nothing. People don't expect big numbers from her, so they don't respect her any less for not having them. In the meantime people WILL STILL take Kelis's musical shade, buzz the hell out of it on boards and blogs, and laugh at Rihanna's getting lyrically smacked down like that.

Bravo Kelis for that creative, eloquent and (not so) subtle clowning of Rihanna. She can take your hairstyle, but she'll never be able to emulate your brain, or go toe to toe with you creatively or intellectually, because as you so correctly described -- she's a "puppet."

Again, I love it too!