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Her album Wanderland will not be released in the U.S. She'll be re-recording seven songs from those sessions with live instruments for a new album called Amphibious.

Kelis just recently quit smoking weed, a habit she cultivated over the years. "I quit because it became so predictable. It became a lifestyle for me. Everywhere I went, people were like, 'Where's your blunt?'"

Kicking herb is part of Kelis' broader spiritual awakening. Last year, she became a born-again Christian, a tribute of sorts to her father's legacy. Purifying her soul came in concert with purifying her body. She'd already stopped having casual s***before her conversion, largely because she realized that the act involved carrying the burden of another in the most literal way. "Women are receivers," she says. "You actually agree to intake somebody else's being. Every stress or impurity of that guy's day, life, whatever, is now in your body. It takes a lot of energy out of me. I was able to have s***for fun at one point in my life, but then you get older and realize it's exhausting!"

But old-time religion has curbed only Kelis' self-destructive instincts, not her creative ones. During our visit, she opens up her three mega-sized closets to reveal endless racks of pants and tops in blaringly loud colors, rows of shoes in the spirit of Imelda Marcos and a sneaker collection to rival Michael Jordan's. "I used to work at this clothing store and get in trouble because I wore these bizarre motifs of fabric, and now I'm in Vogue for best-accessorized woman!"

In the coming months, Kelis' fashion instincts will be put to a more public test. She's teamed up with vintage-clothing outfit What Comes Around Goes Around on a line of bags made from reconstituted sports jerseys and rawhide belts with braille-embossed buckles bearing messages like "Fuck Me Here" or "Kiss That." Like the woman herself, the bags "take new s*** and add old s*** and make it even newer s***."

Kneeling in front of her hyper-glitzy limited-edition footwear, Kelis reaches for one particular pair: a set of tattered low-top Chuck Taylors with new shoestrings. On the laces is a motto, repeated ad infinitum: Boys Lie. "It's true," she says.

Wanderland was, by many accounts, a messy affair. Recorded while Kelis was ending a bad relationship, the material sounds raw and untested. "I was going through all these things at the time," she concedes. "I was in love, and I was being treated like s*** and allowing myself to be because I felt like there's no one more interesting. I'll date a toad if he has a brain, and this guy is such a smarty-pants. He would play mind games with me. It really f***ed me in the head."

The variety doesn't stop there. Panthers is a politically minded five-piece with It's been speculated in industry gossip for the past few years -- and even on Kelis' Web site -- that her romantic partner was none other than Pharrell Williams, the Neptune who's supported her career from the very beginning. Kelis won't say either way. "He's in the spotlight, and everyone loves him. He just totally took for granted the type of person that I am," she continues, "and he would feed off of me because I have a lot to give. I think everybody's looking for someone like them. I need a man who's like me, who's funny and charismatic and talented. It's rare to find all these things, and he has them, except for the fact that he has problems with women."

When asked for comment, Williams is vague: "I don't like to talk about s*** like that. I like to talk about positive things. She wants what's best for me, and I want what's best for her. She really deserves to be happy. And I'll say this: She's gonna make someone a happy-ass man someday." When pressed to name names, Kelis demurs. "I can't tell you who it is, but it's definitely someone I still see and spend time with. I spent so much of my life with him, four years, and we're friends. It was hard because I totally loved him and I gave everything, so it was hard for me to pull back. I loved him. I still love him, but I had to be smart."

With an abundance of free time, Kelis is channeling her energies into more fulfilling outlets. She's opening a bakery on 135th Street, to be run by her mother. She's going to get around to reading more of the books on her shelf -- volumes about psychology, art and maintaining the body. She's going to take care of her voice, attending to the vocal-cord problems she's been singing over for the past two years. And she's going to get back to herself.

"It was a good process of, like, a year of me saying, 'I'm not going back, I'm not going back.' I had to stop saying it and just do it," she muses. "But I did it. I'm lonely and whatever, but I'm proud of myself. And that feels really good. I can look at myself and say I am who I say I am, and that's the most important thing for me."

-Article from Papermag Magazine

Wanderland wasn’t released in the U.S.?

No

Yeah, it was never released in the States until 2019.
That was because at the time, she was dealing with issues with Virgin Records.

Neptunes really made 2 whole albums that were shelved

What’s the other one you’re talking about? Latrelle?

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F*** labels fr
Clipse got f***ed over by 2 different labels smh

Pharrell really was a demon back in the day.

Ah, I forget about that all the time. I think their Latrelle work is their best r&b work which is saying a whole f***ing lot lol, that shelved album is my s***

Whoa

Fascinating read tbh Ty for sharing

Vashtie got us I Really Like You Girl, Young Girl, and Angel. God bless that woman

Nah man, Pharrell and Kelis had to been dating during this time period, because ain't no way she's this emotional about their chemistry

She sounds hurt. Why was she throwing shade at young p?

I think I feel I know what happened. But I would have to make a long ass thread about it.

He couldn’t hide it in that truth or dare live performance vid lol

And this man gonna say that she's his lil sister in the Drink Champs Interview. Man foh

I love Pharrell to death and always will but that nigga be plotting on some borderline creep s*** sometimes lol. Nigga had to catch himself a few times in the Zendaya othertone interview even. Young Girl is fire but still be having me like 😬

bc this was when Pharrell was a wild boy, he was probably cheating on her. ppl today see his evolution but forget the type of person he was back in the day, Skateboard P had the hoes fr

You know Kelis was hittin that
Had young p singin in high notes

I feel like Pharrell is much wiser now, but jesus man, he was a freak show.

why did I never notice Jonas from LRG is in this video

Plus this was around the time, he was hanging around too much with Diddy, so it makes sense.