Kelis says Milkshake sample in new Beyonce song is “theft”
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’.