Kelis: Whatever you put in the ground, that is what’s going to come back to you

“I hate LA" - Kelis says in a Guardian interview, because - "There’s nowhere to go after 10 at night. So I thought, if I’m going to be in California, I should be where I can appreciate how beautiful it really is, not stuck in LA and pretending it’s a city that’s fun”. So, she moved with her two sons and husband to a 10-hectare farm deep in wine-country California, next to rocky hills. This spring she is going on a world tour to mark 'Kaleidoscope', her debut album she is very proud of - “the femaleness of the album, of the freaking outspokenness of it, the blackness of it, the alternativeness of it”. She gained fame with it, but she says she made nothing from sales of her first two albums, which were produced by the Neptunes. But, she holds no grudges against them - "It’s very clear to me, especially being on a farm, that whatever you put in the ground, that is what’s going to come back to you”. The G sees her story as a warning to young artists, young female artists in particular: don’t let record companies sell you short, don’t let producers make you sign anything, don’t let a wolf into your home.