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KELIS

POSING on the cover of her debut, , covered in psychedelic body paint and with her head tilted to the heavens, Kelis Rogers resembled the cover star of a vintage George Clinton project rather more than most major-label artists in 1999 did. The sleeve echoed the music inside: here was an album that was rooted in ’90s R&B, but had more in common with groove-ridden and experimental P-funk than it did the slick, choreographed cool.

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