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<blockquote data-quote="UPROXX" data-source="post: 57180" data-attributes="member: 81"><img src="https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Kelis-top.jpeg?w=1024&amp;h=437&amp;crop=1" alt="Kelis" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getty ImageBeyoncé’s highly anticipated album <a href="https://uproxx.com/pop/beyonce-renaissance-statement-leak/" target="_blank">Renaissance</a>, arriving tomorrow, is full of sampled artists, including Donna Summer, Big Freedia, and Kelis. <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/chloe-bailey-influences-debut-album-kanye/" target="_blank">Kelis</a>, though, is not happy about it. On an Instagram post made by the account @kelistrends about Kelis being sampled on Renaissance, Kelis shared her frustrations in the comments.“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.”She argued with fans in the comments, replying to those excited about the collaboration: “it’s not a collab it’s theft,” she wrote. People pointed out that her beef is not with Beyoncé but instead with Pharrell, who she accused of stealing profits from her after she worked with him on her first two records. She <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/kelis-pharrell-neptunes-album-royalties/" target="_blank">opened up about the feud in an interview last year</a>: “Their argument is: ‘Well, you signed it,’” she told the journalist. “I’m like: ‘Yeah, I signed what I was told, and I was too young and too stupid to double-check it.’”Check out the original Instagram post below.<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/kelis-beyonce-sample-renaissance/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="UPROXX, post: 57180, member: 81"] [IMG alt="Kelis"]https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Kelis-top.jpeg?w=1024&h=437&crop=1[/IMG] [UWSL]Getty Image[/UWSL] Beyoncé’s highly anticipated album [I][URL='https://uproxx.com/pop/beyonce-renaissance-statement-leak/']Renaissance[/URL][/I], arriving tomorrow, is full of sampled artists, including Donna Summer, Big Freedia, and Kelis. [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/chloe-bailey-influences-debut-album-kanye/']Kelis[/URL], though, is not happy about it. On an Instagram post made by the account @kelistrends about Kelis being sampled on [I]Renaissance[/I], Kelis shared her frustrations in the comments. “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.” She argued with fans in the comments, replying to those excited about the collaboration: “it’s not a collab it’s theft,” she wrote. People pointed out that her beef is not with Beyoncé but instead with Pharrell, who she accused of stealing profits from her after she worked with him on her first two records. She [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/kelis-pharrell-neptunes-album-royalties/']opened up about the feud in an interview last year[/URL]: “Their argument is: ‘Well, you signed it,’” she told the journalist. “I’m like: ‘Yeah, I signed what I was told, and I was too young and too stupid to double-check it.’” Check out the original Instagram post below. [url="https://uproxx.com/music/kelis-beyonce-sample-renaissance/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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