What a cute couple they make.Īnd while Pharrell and gang’s catchy, pop infused beats don’t exactly scream Boom Bap like early Nas, there is still a considerable amount of grit in them, especially for a Neptunes record. The album draws an almost obvious comparison to Kelis’ now husband Nas, taking his taste for telling the deep, dark life of a lower class black male and telling it from the point of, well, the wife of a lower class black male.
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Kaleidoscope was the album that made Kelis huge in the rest of the world, an album full of love, hate, fear and intensity. But it turns out that Kelis had a fantastic, successful Neptunes produced Neo-Soul meets Club Rap record out four years before she started getting a lot of radio play in the states. That’s what Americans tend to do anyways. Kelis was a gravel voiced goddess that the world just seemed to be ready for.īut when I say the world I just mean the United States. Milkshake was a song that came fast and stayed long, an instantly recognizable tune, and one of the most original recorded about a woman’s “assets”. A song full of sexy lyrics, catchy melodies and the kind of beat that makes a middle school boy get all excited in his pants. Two decades later and without a single wrinkle, this is a welcome gift that features a handful of remixes (like the excellent extended Caught Out Here by The Neptunes) and gives us the pleasure of revisiting this sensual classic.Kelis broke onto the scene with a hit song, like many R&B singers do these days. Rather minimalist beats and arrangement-wise, Kelis was a veritable trailblazer. Kaleidoscope is an R&B record with just the right amounts of pop and hip-hop, like Mary J. With confidence and charisma aplenty - she’s only 20 years old on this record - she takes full ownership of this first record entirely directed by the Neptunes duo Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo. During the summer of that same year, the Harlem fly girl first imposed her urban verve on the crazy single Got Your Money by former Wu-Tang member Ol’ Dirty Bastard. But Kaleidoscope (which celebrates its twentieth birthday with this Expanded Edition) was on a whole different playing field. When Kelis released her first album in December 1999, soul music was already enjoying a revamp thanks to purist innovators like Erykah Badu and D’Angelo. See more Your browser does not support the audio element. Two decades later and without a single wrinkle, this is a welcome gift that features a handful of remixes (like the excellent extended Caught Out Here by The Neptunes) and gives us the pleasure of revisiting this sensual classic.
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