Kelis Covers The Guardian Guide: Talks ‘Food’, Divorce & Labels

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While most of us were introduced to Kelis in ’99, while she violently yelled, ‘I hate you so much right now’, those days are long gone. Five albums later with a child and divorce (from rapper Nas) under her belt, she’s a grown a** woman. This year, she announced her new cooking show, ‘Saucy and Sweet‘ on the Cooking Channel. She’s also released her sixth album, titled Food, her new obsession and talent that many fans had known little about. In an interview with The Guardian (she’s their March cover), she insists that her new music isn’t directly related to her very public divorce from Nas.

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She shares:

I’ve been divorced for almost five years; it’s over, I’m over it. But what I would say is that last year I was