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Monday, June 25, 2012

Kelis Reacts To Nas' Life Is Good Album Cover

'I can respect that he wears his feelings on his sleeve,' Kelis says of cover featuring her green wedding dress.
By Rob Markman

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If you were expecting Kelis to scream "I hate you so much right now" after seeing ex-hubby Nas' Life Is Good album cover, then you have the "Milkshake" singer all wrong.

For the cover of his upcoming solo LP, Nas posed with Kelis' green wedding dress, the only item she left behind when she and the Queens rapper split. "My feelings about it are not really relevant, but at the end of the day, Nas is an artist and for whatever it's worth, he's one of the greatest — especially for what it is that he does," Kelis told NME.com about the album cover during an interview at the Isle of Wight Festival in England this past weekend.

Nas first spoke on the significance of the dress when VH1 profiled the usually private MC on their "Behind the Music" special. "She took her stuff out of the house and left her green wedding dress. And that was all she left," he said.

"It clicked right there. You're saying it even in your interview. It's like a given that this should allude to this being on the cover, that statement," Nas told MTV News on June 12. "Some things you can't plan, they happen."

The veteran MC likened himself to an old blues musician, an endearing quality that his ex-wife appreciates. "I feel like, especially someone in hip-hop to really kinda be genuine and honest, whatever the honesty is about, I think it's awesome," she said. "My feelings about it aren't really necessarily valid, it's just the fact that as an artist, I can respect that he wears his feelings on his sleeve. I like that."

Life Is Good is due out July 17.

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