The Meat Street Beat – Kelis 22nd Century

Generally when Perez Hilton recommends new music, he might as well be recommending a cut to the face, which would actually be more memorable than some of the shitze he plugs on his blog. Still, he flagged the new Kelis album, Fleshtone, dropping overseas yesterday (July 6th for Canada, bitches!) and when I heard this, I pretty much Kelis’ed all over my keyboard:

Here’s the new album artwork:

She’s performing at Toronto Pride this summer at Aqua Pride (saw Ms Kelly there last year) and you can pretty much count on Kelis bringing this milkshake to Toronto’s gay backyard:

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