The queen of music, Beyoncé Knowles released her seventh studio album “Renaissance”. One of the songs on the album “ENERGY” sampled Kelis’s song popular song “Milkshake”, a song Kelis wrote but doesn’t own the rights to. Beyonce worked with Pharrell, who owns the rights to Kelis’s “Milkshake” causing Kelis to go to social media and share her thoughts. In a series of comments on Instagram from her Bounty & Full business account, the singer did not hold back when a Kelis Instagram fan page from her announced that , Beyoncé RENAISSANCE album will include a Kelis sample on the song ‘Energy.’
Via her business account, Kelis wrote, “My mind is blown too because the level of disrespect and utter ignorance of all 3 parties involved is astounding. 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.” In a later comment, she added, “it’s not a collab it’s theft.”
After her comments went viral she took to her official Instagram account to share more of her thoughts.
“Number one, so I’m a human being so I get pissed off and I get ticked off,” she explains. “I’m an artist, so I am as Erykah [Badu] said ‘I’m sensitive about my s—.’ The reality is that my real beef, is not only with Beyoncé, because at the end of the day, she sampled a record, she’s copied me before, so have many other artists, it’s fine, I don’t care about that.”
Kelis noted that her issue isn’t the sample itself, but “that not only are we Black female artists in an industry where there’s not many of us” and noted that the two singers have “met each other, we know each other, we have mutual friends.” She went on to call out Pharrell, saying its “stupid and disrespectful”.
A few days later fans noticed that the “Milkshake” sample was removed from the song “Energy”.
