Kelis has accused Beyonce of sampling her music without permission on the song ‘Energy’, which appears on the new Beyonce album ‘Renaissance’, which is out today.
Although, this isn’t really a conventional uncleared sample dispute, and instead relates to a long-running beef between Kelis and her former collaborators, production outfit The Neptunes.The new Beyonce song interpolates part of Kelis’s 2003 track ‘Milkshake’, which she recorded with The Neptunes – aka Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo – for her third album ’Tasty’.
It is one of five tracks the duo produced for that album, four of which – including ‘Milkshake’ – list Williams and Hugo as the sole songwriters.
As a result they are both credited on ‘Energy’ – seemingly suggesting the interpolation itself has been properly cleared – but Kelis is not.Responding to one fan on Instagram who had praised the “collab” on the new Beyonce record, Kelis stated, via the account of her beauty brand Bounty And Full: “It’s not a collab, it’s theft”.In another comment, she added: “My mind is blown too because the level of disrespect and utter ignorance of all three parties involved is astounding.
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