Unlike legendary Gospel songstress Twinkie Clark (as we reported here), Kelis was far from appreciative for being listed among contributors to Beyonce‘s new album ‘Renaissance’ (due on digital shelves July 29).
Apparently having new reason to shout ‘I hate you so much right now,’ the 42-year-old waxed honest about her disappointment on not receiving a heads up her moderate 1999 hit ‘Get Along with You’ would be included alongside others on Bey’s forthcoming LP as a sample for the song ‘Energy.’
Inciting backlash from the Queen’s fans (affectionately called #Beyhive) for her rant, look inside to read the stinging words that still have the fan group swarming.
Fans who first noticed Kelis’ name on the ‘Renaissance’ credits assumed it was a collaboration between the divas before K launched into a tirade to clear up the confusion.
“My mind is blown too because the level of disrespect and utter ignorance of all 3 parties involved is astounding,” she wrote. “I heard about this the same way everyone else did. Nothing is ever as it seems, some of the people in this business have no soul or integrity and they have everyone fooled.”
Written and produced by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of The Neptunes, ‘Get Along With You’ was the second single from the singer’s 1999 debut album ‘Kaleidoscope.’
After the #Beyhive got wind of the her comments, they went wild on Kel’s respective social media handles – calling her out for alleging someone could steal a song that was never credited to her as a writer.
Tired of the hoopla, Kelis took to Instagram Thursday evening (July 28) to double down on her stance about Bey and The Neptunes.
“To add to my [original] thought, here’s the issue; this is not about Beyonce or anything else for that matter,” she started in the Instagram video seen above. “The reality is this is more about the fact there is a lot of hypocrisy and there’s a lot of nonsense. We’ve got Pharrell who did an interview last year talking about ‘artists’ rights’ and how people should be able to ‘rework their deals’ and ‘artists should be getting credit for what they’ve done’ and all that stuff when in reality when I was signed to him I had the same manager that he had and he has writing credits on MY RECORDS – all my singles coincidentally. He ain’t ever wrote a song or lyric a day in his life.“
Her disparaging comments about Pharrell didn’t mean Bey was in her good graces, however.
“We’ve got Beyonce who, like I said, out of human decency and artistry and a female and all the empowerment stuff she sings about…I don’t talk about it, I am about it. All this female empowerment stuff, it only counts if you actually do it,” the GRAMMY nominee scolded. Later, she added, “no, it’s not a collaboration. It’s called thievery because the definition of collaboration means we are working together. There’s no working together – you’re not even checking to see if everything’s cool. That’s a problem. I would never do that to another artist.”
Needless to say, the commentary only further fueled online attack – slams that likely show no sign of cooling any time soon.
As of time reported, however, Beyonce nor Pharrell have responded to Kelis’ claims of thievery.
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